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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Harrison Owen<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Saturday, August 02, 2003
4:09 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Fwd: Master Planning
& opening space</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Romy Shovelton surfaced and had the following to contribute to Avner. I
guess she is not curretnly on the LIST -- so I will pass it on.<br>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003
11:12:22 -0400<br>
From: Romy Shovelton <romys@compuserve.com><br>
Subject: Master Planning & opening space<br>
Sender: Romy Shovelton <romys@compuserve.com><br>
To: Avner Haramati <avner@inter.net.il>, Harrison Owen
<owenhh@mindspring.com>,<br>
John Thompson <jtp@jtp.co.uk><br>
<br>
Avner<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks to the generosity of Harrison (as always), he has woken me up to<br>
a hugely important issue that you posted on the OSLIST, despite my being<br>
virtually invisible there these days.<br>
<br>
Firstly, I am in awe every time I hear of the work you are doing. What a<br>
gift to Israel and our world.<br>
<br>
So... needless to say, I would be honoured to see if there is anything I<br>
can add or support.<br>
<br>
As you might imagine, most of my own thinking would chime 100% with that<br>
of Harrison. And.... I have a couple of other thoughts.<br>
<br>
1) I agree that an important primary focus will be on mentoring the <br>
planners & politicians, to get them to a place where they see the real<br>
value of the direction you are taking in engaging the people - as Harrison<br>
says, so that they see how genuinely aligning with the desires of the people<br>
(rather than doing so in theory only) GIVES them extraordinary power,rather<br>
than taking it away.<br>
<br>
What I might add, is that I believe you can move to participatory democracy<br>
in stages. It is true that, in many ways, when the people have tasted Open
Space, <br>
you can't put the 'genie back in the bottle': they have a sense of the
effectiveness<br>
of running their own show, and will not easily go back to 'business as usual'.<br>
However.... just as Open Space has a clear and strong framework (within<br>
which is the freedom to create our world together),it is almost always helpful
to<br>
be very clear on 'the givens' in any situation: these form part of the
framework.<br>
<br>
So...you might say that a 'given' is that, in the current democratic and legal <br>
context, the planners and politicians have certain responsibilities for taking <br>
certain decisions. For the time being, they can retain those responsibilities -
<br>
using the participation and dialogue with the people as the best possible way
of <br>
making the best possible decisions ie.deciding with the people... and NOT
loosing <br>
power, rather building it.<br>
<br>
I agree that ultimately and ideally we will move to a situation where decisions<br>
are being taken through a process of hugely broader engagement of the people.
And..<br>
even in that situation there are likely to be groups of people, and some
individuals,<br>
who are asked to work on behalf of the people (eg. the teams who have just been
<br>
working to produce some of the five-year-plan detail.). In a way we are perhaps<br>
grooming the P&P to work in a way that democracy was originally intended to
work?<br>
<br>
So.. in short, I believe it's possible to work with the planners &
politicians (P&P)<br>
without frightening them! In this way to bring them along into genuine
participation<br>
with the people (as Harrison has said, in a lot fewer words!).<br>
<br>
2) In addition to mentoring the P&P, Harrison is right that I have some
experience of<br>
involving them in working directly with the people to draw up and implement
plans.<br>
Working with John Thompson and his colleagues (<a href="http://www.jtp.co.uk/"
eudora=autourl>www.jtp.co.uk</a>), we use community<br>
architects, planners & urban designers to help 'the people' and the
planners & <br>
politicians to take community desires to the next stage - to literaly visualise<br>
what the physical and social space could be like. The result is very often a<br>
Master Plan. Working groups are often formed, and these can also benefit from
the<br>
expert input of community planners etc. These are people that can speak the
language<br>
of the P&P, while almost translating the will of the people. <br>
<br>
I have just returned from two such pieces of work in Yorkshire in England. In
one,<br>
the main event, which pulled things together and effectively launched the <br>
implementation stage, included some significant transformation activities, to <br>
signal the change eg. closing the main street completely and building a
(temporary)<br>
dry-stone wall down the centre - reclaiming local skills and acting as a seat
for <br>
great local entertainment in the evening.<br>
<br>
btw John Thompson has personally worked in many contexts with significant
conflit. I<br>
will copy him on this note, to see if he has worked in Israel? You may well
have <br>
local 'experts' who play a similar role. If not perhaps John might be able to
help?<br>
<br>
3)the other thing, which I'm sure you will have given the P&P to
understand, is that<br>
using Open Space (and appropriate related work)will not only support them in
their<br>
power and popularity, it will also be MUCH more effective and streamlined in
creating<br>
the needed output eg. Master Plan and its implementation. Having the people on
board<br>
at the start is quicker and cheaper than lengthy objections and obstruction
later.<br>
<br>
4) btw on the question of elections, I'm sure your aim will be to involve those
of <br>
all parties and 'sides'. And they will be advised to show genuine interest and
desire<br>
for dialogue too. Of course what you don't want is them using your gatherings
as a<br>
political platform: they would be invited to join in like everyone else.
Perhaps <br>
you have a more specific concern here?<br>
<br>
So... Avner please forgive me for probably stating the obvious.... At least
maybe <br>
I'm endorsing your own thinking (as well as that of Harrison)?!<br>
<br>
In summary, it would be wonderful to support you in your work. Please do let<br>
me know if there is anything at all that I can do.<br>
<br>
btw it was also such an honour to be invited to assist with /facilitate the
work<br>
in Rome, with representatives from Israeli, Palestinian and Italian
universities.<br>
As you will know, the intended event at the end of April was postponed:I am
planning<br>
to drop an email to Sharon Rosen and Daniel Kropf to see what news there is.<br>
While so far, Sharon and I have only 'met' by telephone, it was wonderful
to spend<br>
a brief time with Daniel when he was in London at the end of April/early May.<br>
<br>
With very best wishes Avner<br>
<br>
Romy<br>
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To:<x-tab> </x-tab>Romy Shovelton, romys<br>
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RE:<x-tab> </x-tab>Some help?<br>
<br>
<br>
Haven't seen you on the OSLIST recently -- and presume you are alive and <br>
well. Avner Haramati (Israel) put up a note, and I thought some of your <br>
experience might be helpful. He said: --<br>
<br>
Dear colleagues<br>
<br>
9 months ago we opened (holded) a space in a Regional Council that includes <br>
25 villages and Kibutzim ( corporate villages). They decided to build a 5 <br>
years strategic plan for the region together with the inhabitants. 11 teams <br>
worked on the issues that stemmed from the Open Space and last friday 10 <br>
teams that included inhabitants (130 of them) and civil servants presented <br>
their final suggestions in an open event/market to the public and guests <br>
and were acknowledged as the official guidelines of the strategic plan. The <br>
teams decided that they want to continue. The issue of the missing team was <br>
as Harrison calls it "clear as mud" and was publicly declared by the
Head <br>
of the Council as the next focal point.<br>
The event and all the process was declared by the Inhabitants and the <br>
Academic and Govenmental guests as the first manifestation of real <br>
participatory democracy that they have experienced and they were thrilled. <br>
One of the inhabitants shared her understandind of the process: " We were <br>
excited by the 4 principals but I would like to add to the 4th: It ends <br>
when it ends but then it starts again". Or as Tova said " After 9
months <br>
the baby was born but now all the work of raising him up starts" It seems <br>
that they are getting addicted to this, and our role along the way is just <br>
slightly to remind them of the tune (in their words).<br>
<br>
And the question:<br>
We (with Tova) are in a process of using OS in the context of inhabitants <br>
participation in building a "Master- Plan" for a small city. We
would be <br>
very thankful to hear and learn about your experience in this kind of work, <br>
especially on the allignment with the city planners and the planning <br>
stages, and how coming elections effects it?<br>
<br>
Thank you<br>
<br>
Avner Haramati<br>
Jerusalem<br>
<br>
I answered: --<br>
<br>
I think Romy Shovelton has done some work in this area -- she is sometime <br>
lurker on the list -- but just to get her attention, I will forward this to <br>
her. As far as your question goes -- You have surely asked the tough one. I <br>
find that both city planners and politicians are (in general) adverse to <br>
Open Space. The bottom line is control. They think they should have it <br>
(control), Open Space makes it clear that nobody really does -- and so the <br>
problem. While there are undoubtedly ways to integrate Open Space events <br>
into the whole process (At the beginning to set the stage, in the middle <br>
for course corrections and working the "clear as mud issues", and at
the <br>
end -- or continuing -- for implementation) I find that the critical thing <br>
it to seek the active, continuing, participatory involvement of planners <br>
and politicians. Things go badly astray when planners and pols consider <br>
the Open Space to be an exercise of the people which they may observe, and <br>
from which they may receive recommendations -- the old "senior
management" <br>
model. Pulling this one off is a major task, and usually involves something <br>
like a "soul change" for the P & Ps. Indeed for some of them it
requires <br>
that the world as they have seen it be turned upside down. All of a sudden <br>
the people are "in charge" and the task of the planners and
politicians <br>
becomes one of working out the technical details -- a most important task <br>
-- but definitely secondary. This is called democracy. From the sounds of <br>
things (your story) you are off to a good start. My suggestion would be to <br>
spend a lot of time with the P & P in mentoring relationship, helping them <br>
to understand to genuine power of aligning their efforts with the desires <br>
of the people. As Gandhi was purported to have said -- help them to find <br>
out which way the parade is going and clear the route and manage the <br>
traffic. Actually, Gandhi didn't say that exactly, but I think he could have.<br>
<br>
Harrison<br>
<br>
<br>
Hope all goes well with you. I am in Maine, enjoying the summer. If you <br>
want to respond to Avner directly < avnerh@inter.net.il > will do it. And
<br>
it would be great to see you on the list.<br>
<br>
ho<br>
<br>
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7808 River Falls Drive<br>
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