Geoff Brown put up a formidable blog post capturing the whole process of our recent designing, planning and facilitating a conference in Melbourne. If you are interested in multiple ways of learning and understanding process as well as ways of telling a story, set aside some time and go dive into what he has written. As one who was there, all I can say is, bang on, mate! PS there should be some sort of blog award for “most formidable blog post.” This one would win it.
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I think it’s important to note that there is no research on “the art of hosting” that we know of but that there is much research out there in the world on what it is that we are working with and trying to evoke. One of the problems, as we are seeing in this thread, is that we don’t have the language or the conceptual frameworks to handle the extreme interiorty of this inquiry. In general, people looking for “research” on collective intelligence, emergence and social fields are looking for objective evidence that if we use participatory methods, things will …
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Been too busy to read the feed lately, but here’s some stuff: Dave Snowdon argues for data over information. whiskey river posts a little something that Dave might therefore appreciate. WFMU shares some really interesting older progressive music sounds. And for your further listening pleasure: Steve Mason – All Come Down from Said the Gramaphone…very nice mellow tune.
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Good Friday. Geoff Brown on doing great things by working with authentic story and having a ball too.
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There is an omlet in this weeks batch of feed food: Christopher Niemann repurposes Google Map aethetics to make cleaver pictures. Jordon Cooper points to a beautiful tilt-pan movie of my favourite city: New York. Laura McGrath’s blog. A new friend and colleague.