The m21 Project's First Quarter

PDR's Evaluation Summary (after the Evaluation Meeting on 13-7-7)

Main points:

Workshops

• The workshops so far have provided a good scaffolding for us to build on.
• While the structure of the first session in the four groups works well, with participants using their examples as a starting point for the discussion, the second session is less clear and needs more development /explanation.
• Need to create a clearer framework for the workshops, i.e. explanation packs beforehand, explaining better aims etc.
• Need to establish a stronger and clearer definition of the four groups before we begin the discussions within them.
• maybe have a minute of meditation/tuning-in before discussions begin?
• Having a base point in the synergy sessions was good
• We need to be able to identify beforehand what points may emerge within the workshops
• Need to make participants feel comfortable
• It’s ok to be abrasive
• Know how to turn disagreements into creative challenges
• Tools are underdeveloped
• Need follow-up for participants after workshops
• Need to transmit achievements from workshops more openly
• Maybe put a flag up during workshops to single-out immediate achievements/discoveries?
• Need extrinsic (not only intrinsic) value from workshops

Possibilities for Wisdom? workshop

• Allow more people in each group so that people can be ‘butterflies’
• Allow people to choose their own group
• Conduct smaller exercises which reveal what each group’s role is
• How to use constellations?
• Dissolve the four groups?

Project structure

• As we go up the synergy orders, it becomes increasingly difficult to differentiate between the four groups
• Re-naming the groups?
• Establish a stronger definition of the project: its main aims, goals etc. and dismiss the points that are less important.
• How do we know when we have been successful?
• Are we targeting only the creative industries/designers?
• Develop a matrix of attributes that can spot synergy: (1)In the whole group (2)In a specific task/group
• Is Metadesign transformative?
• Need to establish the viability of the eco-principles
• Is higher order higher maintenance?
• Need to establish a system that will eliminate the need for editing
• Need to establish a system for alternating people from being ‘insiders’ to being ‘outsiders’
• Assign to an “open source” protocol do that everyone associated with us can agree to be part of it.
• Prepare a clear presentation of the project that we can put on the web and use in different occasions.