Great idea/set of techniques for actually solving problems. Is currently being debased and bastardised by largely clueless “progressive” NGOs, to the point where techniques will be emptied of hope because people got so cynical about them th first five times they met them…
see also Law of Two Feet, Unconferences, world cafe
Brilliant blog post from the Rhizome crew on Open Space and its pitfalls/critics
For example
marchudson.net 