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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Under the heading of “nothing new under the sun” – This “new” Dutch invention sounds almost exactly like a similar facility/organization which a bunch of Swedes did in the 90’s in Stockholm. Worked then, should work now.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>ho<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Harrison Owen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>7808 River Falls Dr.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Potomac, MD 20854<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Camden, Maine 04843<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Phone 301-365-2093<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(summer) 207-763-3261<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="www.openspaceworld.com%20"><span style='color:blue'>www.openspaceworld.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="www.ho-image.com%20"><span style='color:blue'>www.ho-image.com</span></a> (Personal Website)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org"><span style='color:blue'>http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>gerardo de luzenberger<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 17, 2013 11:04 AM<br><b>To:</b> World wide Open Space Technology email list<br><b>Subject:</b> [OSList] the serendipity machine<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#003333'>I'm just back from the netherlands, where I have visited an interesting company - it's called seats2meet. They set up a network of business centers that offer physical coworking, office and meeting spaces. They describe their business model as a serendipity machine in a booklet you can download here <a href="http://theserendipitymachine.com/">http://theserendipitymachine.com/</a><br><br>What is amazing is that they host freely coworkers (including wifi, coffee and food). IN exchange they ask them to share their knowledges and skills with others. They do this using a software platform they call "the third" space. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#003333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#003333'>Even if they never quoted open space their approach is really tuned with it. And I think that Open Space can be also considered to some extent as a serendipity machine, a "third" space that opens to unexpected conversations and knowledge exchange.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#003333'>all the best from Milan<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#003333'>ge<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#003333'> <br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=PT style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:gray'>Gerardo de Luzenberger<br></span></b><span lang=PT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:gray'>Mob: +39 3293281343<br>Tel: +39 02 89751746<br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:gray'>Fax: +39 02 87151318 <br>Skype: gerardodeluz – </span><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/blocked::mailto:xge@loci.it" target="_blank" title="blocked::mailto:xge@loci.it"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>xge@loci.it</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:maroon'> <br></span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:gray'>IAF: Certified Professional Facilitator</span></b> <o:p></o:p></p><p><b><span style='font-size:32.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#999999'>genius</span></b><b><span style='font-size:32.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#FF6600'>loci </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#999999'>facilitation & development<br>PREMIO IMPRESA INNOVATIVA E CREATIVA <br>DELLA PROVINCIA DI MILANO<br></span></b><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/blocked::http:/www.loci.it/" target="_blank" title="blocked::http://www.loci.it/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:gray'>www.loci.it</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:maroon'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:gray'>– </span><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/blocked::mailto:info@loci.it" target="_blank" title="blocked::mailto:info@loci.it"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>info@loci.it</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:gray'> </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/geniusloci/" target="_blank" title="blocked::http://www.flickr.com/photos/geniusloci/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>http://www.flickr.com/photos/geniusloci/</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:maroon'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:gray'>Sede legale: Via A. 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