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The original Question is: <br>
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"What is Open Space Technology?"<br>
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Harold's item (2) is an apparent rephasing: "What are we referencing
when we talk about "Open Space Technology?"<br>
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Harold references Chuni Li, quoting her as follows:<br>
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[Paraphrasing:] "Open Space Technology is anything that supports the
opening of space."<br>
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Googling "the opening of space" yields this, as the topmost search
engine results page:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ibiza-spotlight.com/night/promoters/space_opening_i.htm">http://www.ibiza-spotlight.com/night/promoters/space_opening_i.htm</a><br>
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If <strong>Space </strong>is the best club in the world, then the
<strong>Space Opening Fiesta</strong> must surely be the best party
in the world.
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The Space Opening party is considered by most on the island to be
the signal that the clubbing season has started as it forms the
jewel of a wild weekend of parties<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/28/16 4:29 PM, Harold Shinsato via
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There are at least two important questions here:<br>
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1) What are we talking about here when we talk about "Open Space"?<br>
2) What are we referencing when we talk about "Open Space
Technology"?<br>
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As for question 1, we may have walked into this before on the
OSList. I'm not going to bother to search our archives - I'm
trying not to work too hard. But this reminds me of Einstein's
answer about what is space and what is time? They're what we
measure with rulers and clocks. My Physics 101 teacher in college
said this the very first day. Then we got over it. (I've can prove
Einstein said it about clocks - <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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href="http://www.askamathematician.com/2009/11/q-what-is-time/">http://www.askamathematician.com/2009/11/q-what-is-time/</a>).<br>
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Now about question 2, my sense of this based on something the
wonderful Chuni Li said at an Open Space Institute U.S. board
retreat over a year ago. She questioned if it is just the one
meeting format we're familiar with (sit in a circle, open a
marketplace, do breakouts, and then come together for a closing
circle) or if it is anything that supports the opening of space.
(My apologies if I've corrupted the clarity of what she's said -
but it was a big aha moment at the meeting for me.)<br>
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I'm sure there are other ways, other technology, that can "open
space". At least if we don't get too hung up on the first question
- though you got me what we could measure open space with - other
than maybe the same thing I measure when I move with my two feet.
An internal experience.<br>
<br>
Harold<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/28/16 10:55 AM, Daniel Mezick
via OSList wrote:<br>
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What is Open Space Technology? <br>
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