[FRIAM] Fwd: Question from Merle

[Steven A Smith]

> Lars, Merle, Nick, and FRIAM members,
>
> Thank you for taking the time to respond, Lars! It's an important
> first spark of interaction between two groups with Stockholm and Santa
> Fe as nexus.
Just to second Stephen's praise for both Lars' and Merle's "shepherding"
our group so deftly.   Kudos to Lars and Merle (and the other participants)!
> Perhaps there's a way we can facilitate an electronic exchange between
> the two groups as a kind of question and response could flow between
> the two communities. Or some process that has a feel of
> a  https://bohmdialogue.org/  ? We certainly need to be sharing ideas
> and coming to greater understanding without traveling great distances
> to accomplish it :-)

In the spirit of Merle's "Emergent Diplomacy", the way she facilitated
the meeting did allow-for and yield a certain amount of emergence and
self-organization and Lars style fully supported the same.   I am a fan
of Bohm's "Rheomode" and perhaps the precedent in the implementation of
collective dialogue building through Ward Cunningham's Wiki Wiki and
then more familiarly Wales and Sanger's Wikipedia... which we all use
even if we sometimes love to hate it.

For what it is worth, Nick tried to instigate an interesting
process/structure that he described as "noodling" or perhaps "noodling
around"... as I remember it, an aesthetic for taking any noodle (thread)
and cross-linking it with other noodles (threads) in a constructive
manner.   I wasn't able to (easily) find the discussion of this on the
SFComplex mail-list, but wanted to at least give Nick a nod for his
ongoing, indomitable spirit for trying to build collective work-products
from freewheeling ad-hoc collaboration.

- Steve