It takes shared space to create shared understanding [en]
Interview de Michael Schrage sur la créativité : le point clé pour manager des relations créatives et innovantes, c’est un espace partagé.
What I really found at the core of innovation weren’t only creative individuals, per se, but rather creative relationships. Intriguingly, the key medium for managing those creative and innovative relationships was the shared space.[…]
I found […] that collaboration was grossly underreported in the literature on creativity and design and learning. My key observation was that it takes shared space to create shared understanding. Moreover, the properties of the shared space shape the quality of the collaboration.
The interaction changes dramatically when you add a shared space. Most of us have had the experience of getting into a friendly discussion over lunch with a friend or colleague, when you pull out a pen and begin writing on a napkin or a piece of paper, and the other person says, "No, no, that’s not what I mean." Then they take the pen and paper from you and mark it up to modify what you were saying, and you begin conversing around the images on the paper. […]. You are no longer talking to or with that other person. You are talking with the other person through a medium, a reference point or shared space that becomes like a little capture device, a little reflector of the conversation. It changes the point of reference for what is going on. The shared space fundamentally transforms the dynamics, not just of the representations, but also of the interaction between people. It changes the ecology of the interaction.
Shared space, shared understandings are critical. If you don’t have a shared space you’re not collaborating.
[c’est moi qui souligne]
Effet frappant en coaching (essayez) : uniquement en face à face, en conversation; puis en faisant un schéma sur un feuille de papier; puis en notant sur un paperboard.
