co-creating in safe 7 cheerful spaces
Here's a bit of timewarping for you connecting cafe conversations I participated in may 2005 - sponsored by BBC (action networks), starbucks and the royal society of arts - and the World Blu Organisational democracy network (4-day event involving 200 people in DC founded by the Fenton Family). OD presnted about 20 practical cases as well as giving lots of network debate time. The number 1 series of cases talked about preneurial dynamics in the service economy; the number 2 series talked about inter-local societal understanding and collaborations around the world -eg givingglobal , deep-democracy, carnivalisation as the way of celebrating community and innovation progress
Here's the mail I sent to the Fenton family followed by some links to cafe conversation contents:
Dear Mrs Fenton cc Ms Fenton
I was wondering if it would be practical to catalogue what educational democracy experiments or subnetworks may be emerging from worldblu. Several people did stand up in between sessions or the open space to talk with deep voices about education, though I confess you are the only one who identified, and then I needed Traci's help. I loved how you described getting first or second graders to agree on conversational and learning codes.
My daughter is turning nine and I am appalled by all the cramming for facts and how little open inquiries in learning seem to be todays' educational norm. How little peers learn to colaborate in conversation and evolve their own communal future ideas. This conditions the 3 emerging projects that I can throw into the pool, albeit it as a parent amateur rather than a professional
1) I have a dream that schools should include open spaces in their curiculum before children reach teen age. We know 10 year olds are as good at open space conversations as 50 year olds thanks to 25 years of open Space experiments coordinated by Harrison Owen in Potomac, and now conecting facilitators in 100 countries. So why on earth so few schools use open space , and how to get them started?
2) I decided with my daughter to give her a 5 year diary with a difference. each week we'd choose to start up a topic that she might jot on any time in the next 5 years. When I remembered I'd try and play the role of journalist prompt asking her questions so she could write down answers that bost her self-confidence or curiosity. This would be a better process if some other epope either tried it or at least nominated one or more subjects they believe 9 to 13s can learn by experiencing http://ninenow.blogspot.com
3) I spend half my time in Dc and half in London. Back from London we have a few resources like groups of people questioning what they wish education would adapt to in the internetworking age - where I believe 12th grade use of email is to know how to discover your own mentors through life and help others do likewise. One of the main sponsors of these debates is the Royal Society of Arts www.rsa.org.uk which is supposed to be braching across all cities soon as Britain's main way of replanting social space and connecting powerful and ordinary people. There is also lots of emotional literacy attempts to free up eductaors from the measurement syndrome circling round friends at www.antidote.org.uk
So these are my emerging projects. Are any other educational ones emerging from October. Is there a way we could occasionally meet or multiply cross-project developments?
sincerelychris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk 301 881 1655
http://project30000.blogspot.comhttp://clubofvillage.blogspot.com
BBC sponsored Cafe 1 women's safety in London
-went back to being scared of gangs of youths then deciding that youths only go round in gangs becasue as young teens thyey get scared to go arounhd on their own as well as not having cosy spaces to meet nor the intial help to facilitae positive cultural influence and ways of spending their time
BBC sponsored Cafe 2 - where's the spirit, the co-creation culture of London - went back to having neither time nor space nor channels for announcing starts of groups interested in actioning the same communal development; media has stolen this from us as has the expensive development of city space so that no casual community centres freely exist for people to host meetings; worse over time this makes us ingrained instead of cross-cultural. We don't really integrate across diverse groups even those of us who have as few prejudices or pre-constraining assumptions as one can be
RSA sponsored cafe 1 As parents, what advice and education should we be giving children. Do we understand the future or have we become numbed by all the chnages that are going on. Where is the ethiocs and trust of yesteryear. Is it everyone for themseleves or where and how do people meet to collaborate.
All three of tese cafes and sevral other ones I attended went on before the underground terror of 7/7 or Queen Elisbath's report card on the year: Signs are that (globalization or somethiong is causing) humanity to turn in itself. Please people of Britain let's be confindent we can co-create a beter way, and help the world do this too. More notes of mine at simpol, club of city , of village, and London's 5 main collaboration villages that I so far know of.
Here's the mail I sent to the Fenton family followed by some links to cafe conversation contents:
Dear Mrs Fenton cc Ms Fenton
I was wondering if it would be practical to catalogue what educational democracy experiments or subnetworks may be emerging from worldblu. Several people did stand up in between sessions or the open space to talk with deep voices about education, though I confess you are the only one who identified, and then I needed Traci's help. I loved how you described getting first or second graders to agree on conversational and learning codes.
My daughter is turning nine and I am appalled by all the cramming for facts and how little open inquiries in learning seem to be todays' educational norm. How little peers learn to colaborate in conversation and evolve their own communal future ideas. This conditions the 3 emerging projects that I can throw into the pool, albeit it as a parent amateur rather than a professional
1) I have a dream that schools should include open spaces in their curiculum before children reach teen age. We know 10 year olds are as good at open space conversations as 50 year olds thanks to 25 years of open Space experiments coordinated by Harrison Owen in Potomac, and now conecting facilitators in 100 countries. So why on earth so few schools use open space , and how to get them started?
2) I decided with my daughter to give her a 5 year diary with a difference. each week we'd choose to start up a topic that she might jot on any time in the next 5 years. When I remembered I'd try and play the role of journalist prompt asking her questions so she could write down answers that bost her self-confidence or curiosity. This would be a better process if some other epope either tried it or at least nominated one or more subjects they believe 9 to 13s can learn by experiencing http://ninenow.blogspot.com
3) I spend half my time in Dc and half in London. Back from London we have a few resources like groups of people questioning what they wish education would adapt to in the internetworking age - where I believe 12th grade use of email is to know how to discover your own mentors through life and help others do likewise. One of the main sponsors of these debates is the Royal Society of Arts www.rsa.org.uk which is supposed to be braching across all cities soon as Britain's main way of replanting social space and connecting powerful and ordinary people. There is also lots of emotional literacy attempts to free up eductaors from the measurement syndrome circling round friends at www.antidote.org.uk
So these are my emerging projects. Are any other educational ones emerging from October. Is there a way we could occasionally meet or multiply cross-project developments?
sincerelychris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk 301 881 1655
http://project30000.blogspot.comhttp://clubofvillage.blogspot.com
BBC sponsored Cafe 1 women's safety in London
-went back to being scared of gangs of youths then deciding that youths only go round in gangs becasue as young teens thyey get scared to go arounhd on their own as well as not having cosy spaces to meet nor the intial help to facilitae positive cultural influence and ways of spending their time
BBC sponsored Cafe 2 - where's the spirit, the co-creation culture of London - went back to having neither time nor space nor channels for announcing starts of groups interested in actioning the same communal development; media has stolen this from us as has the expensive development of city space so that no casual community centres freely exist for people to host meetings; worse over time this makes us ingrained instead of cross-cultural. We don't really integrate across diverse groups even those of us who have as few prejudices or pre-constraining assumptions as one can be
RSA sponsored cafe 1 As parents, what advice and education should we be giving children. Do we understand the future or have we become numbed by all the chnages that are going on. Where is the ethiocs and trust of yesteryear. Is it everyone for themseleves or where and how do people meet to collaborate.
All three of tese cafes and sevral other ones I attended went on before the underground terror of 7/7 or Queen Elisbath's report card on the year: Signs are that (globalization or somethiong is causing) humanity to turn in itself. Please people of Britain let's be confindent we can co-create a beter way, and help the world do this too. More notes of mine at simpol, club of city , of village, and London's 5 main collaboration villages that I so far know of.
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