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Critical Practice as an Open Organisation: workshop 2
lead by Ian DrysdaleFriday, November 10, 2006
We all introduced ourselves, and those present were
Neil Cummings, Tom Neill , Cinzia Cremy, Mary Anne Francis, Marsha Bradfield, Manuela Zechner, Darrel Stadlen
, Robin Bhattacharya and Ian Drysdale
Understanding and owning functional elements
Ian re-capped on the Open Organization guidelines that we are trying to implement in Critical Practice.
He expanded on OO's suggested structure for an open organization, particularly by identifying three key components:
- 1. Properties- values, aims or goals within the organization
- 2. Functional Elements - discrete assemblages working upon defined projects within those values, aims and goals
- 3. working groups - people, working on functional elements, and other defined aims and processes within the organization
(This in essence is the rIto Model).
We stuck our Functional Elements, that we defined at our previous workshop, on the wall using A4 paper
Then, those of us present, added our names to the wall using pink post-it notes
And then we connected our post-it notes, with string, to the Functional Elements we felt to be contributing too.
This map facilitated a lively discussion about who is connected (or feels responsible) to whatFunctional Elements (project).
And further, whether we needed to evolve Working Groups – identified CP members who are responsible for developing the Functional Elements. There was a detailed discussion about our present, tacit organizational structure, and whether this is sort-of happening in an informal way.
We subsumed some of the named functional elements into a new element called 'Self Organization'.
The diagram enabled us to model how we work, and implement changes!
The implications of our actions
We discussed how we currently function and agreed that we tend to individually contribute to Functional Elements, that we tend to respond to everything at the last minute; in a bit of a panic. Ian felt it was endearing that action happened at the last minute, rather than not at all!
Ian asked, do we need Working Groups?
And, do we need to be honest (by naming) coordinators (people nominated to coordinate the work of the working groups), and take responsibility>
We looked at the Working Groups parameters in the guidelines
and decided that we did need coordinators
We assigned coordinators to the identified Functional Elements, and the Working Groups.
We identified the default coordinators first (people we identified with the element)
Then we created kind of dream-team scenario (the most appropriate person for the task)
(we tried to only nominate those present at the workshop)
Through discussion we added Self Representation as a new functional element
Then with post-it notes we added ourselves to the working groups we would like to participate in - and then we removed the string!
Individuals identified with projects had been transformed into coordinated clusters (working groups), working upon specific Functional Elements. It was exhausting, and suddenly, shockingly productive! This work resulted in us having specific (and responsible):
APG Open Archive - coordinated by Neil Cummings
Casco project- coordinated by Manuela Zechner
Future Archive- coordinated by Manuela Zechner
Function of the studio - coordinated by Mary Anne Francis
Self Organization - we will all coordinate this
Critical Congress (n) - cordinated by Corrado Morgana
Beyond The Free Market - cordinated by Eugenia
Self Representation - cordinated by Cinzia Cremy
Archive- coordinated by Mary Anne Francis
Thinking Through Practice- coordinated by Isobel Bowditch & Andrew Chesher
Working Upon Chelsea - coordinated by Neil Cummings
Budgets- coordinated by Mary Anne Francis
Development - coordinated by Robin Bhattacharya
Social Relations- cordinated by Cinzia Cremy
Archiving- coordinated by Mary Anne Francis
Tech - coordinated by Ian Drysdale
In discussion, we decided to use Gliffy to continue mapping Critical Practice's Organisation Structure
Finance - coordinated by Darrel Stadlen
We had a short break
And then Manuela Zechner intoduced and lead a series of Relational movement exercises
This was equally exhausting, but also suddenly, and shockingly productive! Several of the exercises 'embodied' much of the discussion and work of the day.
We had a short break
And then we had a short meeting where we decided to fund Manuela's 'emergency' bid to start a website for the Future Archive project, to meet on the 14th November 2006 to discuss pressing issues.....
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