I was involved in something along these lines in Erfurt, Germany, back in
2001. It was called P0es1s.
http://www.p0es1s.net/p0es1s/main_e.htm
It brought together a number of practitioners and theorists working in the
area of digital poetics to discuss developments in the field and the way
forward. It was undertaken as an open floor event. Everyone sat in a circle.
We organised ourselves so that different people facilitated different
sessions but we all pretty well stayed in the circle arrangement for the
duration of two days. Sometimes sub-groups would break away for a specific
reason. Most of the time they didnšt. It was only a small group though so
easy to coordinate.
In 2004 many of the same people, plus some others, got together to do an
exhibition in Berlin. As part of that we did a one day symposium, again
based on this open floor sitting in a circle self-organisingš principle.
http://www.p0es1s.net/en/p0es1s.html
I am unaware if anybody involved was aware of the Open Space Symposia model.
Regards
Simon
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From: simon fildes and katrina mcpherson <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:55:20 +0100
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Subject: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] open space symposia
In 2006 and 2007 we hosted open space symposia called opensource
(videodance). The idea we had was to break out of the academic
conference format where you never have time to discuss the really
important stuff and meet people properly. Within our interdisciplinary
practice we felt we needed to develop a discussion around a fairly
undefined critical framework. We chose to use open space technology
for this.
www.openspaceworld.com/brief_history.htm
and it functioned pretty well we think. The low res version of the
book of the 2006 proceedings is now available here as a free download
and the 2007 book will be published later this year.
www.videodance.org.uk/pages/osvd06.pdf - (54mb)
I'd be interested to find out if anyone else used this open space
technology method in arts symposia?
regards
Simon
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