Sound Planning and Sound Planning and ManagementManagement
Summer SchoolSummer SchoolCollaboration: an individual Collaboration: an individual
or a group experience?or a group experience?
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Pablo Picasso or George Braque?
We are collaborating when we..
• believe that the outcome of collaboration will be better than what we could accomplish on our own
• actively seek people to collaborate with
• share ideas and techniques
• experiment with ideas that come from another
• build on others’ ideas whether or not we initially agree with them
• ................................................. ?
Collaboration is a culture, a mindset, and a way of being in the world.
Collaboration is not a set of tools, activities or techniques.
Identity
Unknowing
Relationship
Flow
Reciprocity
Community: people, their informal
relationships, trust and connections
Domain: shared passion and experiences about a
domain that give a sense of identity
Practice: context for ongoing exchange,
accumulating knowledge and access to community
stories
Community of Practice: a social discipline of learning
leadership sponsorship
members participation
Learning together
nurturing support
COMMUNITY: attentionto “small things” and socialprocesses; back-channel
communication; time; trust; networking...
DOMAIN: visibility; hold it up to the outside;
easy for members to “publish” and see
patterns and connections
PRACTICE: regular, linked events not bound by time and
space; notice and mirror practices that work...
How do we nurture collaboration in a Community of Practice?
contextcontext
occasional
transactional
peripheral
active
coordinator
core group
lurkers
leaders
sponsors
experts
beginners
alumni
outsiders
Etienne Wenger
How do we manage multi-membership and
multiple identities?
Collaboration in networks
Identity/ Anonymity
Unknowing/ Knowing
Relationship/ Solitary
Flow/Interruption Reciprocity/
Self-interest
The question is more “how do we discover, support and extend the collaboration that is already happening?” rather
than “how do we motivate people to collaborate?”
Beverly Trayner www.eudamonia.pt
Collaboration, pictures and stimulation from:
Nancy White: http://www.fullcirc.com/weblog
Etienne Wenger: http://ewenger.com
Patti Anklam (http://www.pattianklam.com/)
David Wilcox: http://www.designingforcivilsociety.org/
The Bumble Bee: http://www.bioteams.com
MIT Center for Collective Intelligence: http://cci.mit.edu/