The idea is to have a living, collaborative, and emergent learning project with fuzzy boundaries in space and time that provides an anchoring thread of inquiry over a several month period.
The path of the learning project will evolve with contributions from participants. Learning happens online and offline, people can share articles, post blogs, read and comment through social media, have offshoot gatherings or propose specific gatherings. People might come and go, and participate in only some or all of the activities or readings. There will be a few baseline events planned at the beginning of the project (eg. monthly salons) but fleshed out in real time by the materials and ideas we come across. For example someone might propose a film to watch, or someone else a field trip.
The curriculum will follow and reflect what we do, and is open to anyone to contribute to.
References: connectivist learning (Steven Downes and George Seimens). Peer to Peer University.
Emphasis:
- Governance and decision making structures in (relatively) small groups
- Tools and theories to assess the effects of governance structures (qualitative and quantitative)
- The history of groups with varied governance structures
Material
- The Tyranny of Structurelessness (PDF in this shared folder)
- Holacracy.org (governance structure for teams/companies)
- Recommendations from Damian:
- Team geek
- Crucial conversations
- (Guide to) getting more/getting more
- “The project management body of knowledge from the project management institute.” (“Dry and terrible and excellent”)
- Technologies of Cooperation (also PDF in this folder)
- ShiftChange, a documentary about cooperatives
- Basic Org Theory/ different utilities
- Coordination Neglect: How lay theories of organizing complicate coordination in organizations
- Stumbling on Happiness - Dan Gilbert
- Switch - Chip and Stan Heath
- Making the Team - Leigh Thompson
- Automated Ethics (Aeon Magazine) (viz having an algorithm govern the house)
- How to Study Public Life (book) (jessy ordered kindle version)
- The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (jessy ordered)