{"id":331,"date":"2003-05-13T17:33:35","date_gmt":"2003-05-13T21:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/arenas\/"},"modified":"2003-05-13T17:33:35","modified_gmt":"2003-05-13T21:33:35","slug":"arenas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/arenas\/","title":{"rendered":"Rooms, Arenas, Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a36'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>Certain&nbsp;interactions demand <STRONG>complementary <\/STRONG>spaces.<\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>Gladiators and performers need arenas, <STRONG>stages<\/STRONG>, centrality.<br \/>\n<LI>Pronouncements, announcements, stories are similar.<br \/>\n<LI>Public &#8216;conversations&#8217; with lots of question-response&#8230; we still <STRONG>don&#8217;t know<\/STRONG> how to handle this.<br \/>\n<LI>Round-table discussions (public or not) work fairly well around (if public, most of) a round table with a <STRONG>moderator<\/STRONG>.<br \/>\n<LI>Large-scale discussions, with input from hundreds of people, work acceptably via mailing lists (cf. software-dev&nbsp; lists)&nbsp;around a shared, collectively updated corpus defining the status of the discussion.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/LI><\/UL><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><FONT size=\"1\">I&#8217;ve never seen this done outside software design, not that it wouldn&#8217;t work in parallel fashion with law or music or publishing or education.&nbsp; And similar processes are certainly the foundation for some of the &#8216;innovative&#8217; seminars about brainstorming.<\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>Large-scale discussions <STRONG>without <\/STRONG>a shared corpus (e.g., about things too abstract or&nbsp;novel or fleeting [<STRONG><A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/\">elections<\/A><\/STRONG>!] to have an obvious one)&nbsp;have yet to work well.&nbsp; There may be a suitable space for them, perhaps require a more than trivial infrastructure.<\/LI><\/UL><br \/>\n<P>What else?&nbsp; What spaces have the greatest impact on your life and thoughts and understanding?&nbsp; This one, for instance, is clearly <STRONG>not <\/STRONG>an ideal space for a discussion about new things, since it privileges editors&#8217; comments over those of others (and posts, like this one, are at heart more often questions than pronouncements).&nbsp; It is, however, a great place for holding forth &#8212; and perhaps receiving input, as the presenter has time.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certain&nbsp;interactions demand complementary spaces. Gladiators and performers need arenas, stages, centrality. Pronouncements, announcements, stories are similar. Public &#8216;conversations&#8217; with lots of question-response&#8230; we still don&#8217;t know how to handle this. Round-table discussions (public or not) work fairly well around (if public, most of) a round table with a moderator. Large-scale discussions, with input from hundreds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-331","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}