March 19th Gathering
From: Rob Sandelin (robsanmicrosoft.com)
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 94 21:41:40 PST
The March 19th gathering is a gathering of the Puget Sound cohousing 
Tribe. I sent an invite to Lynn Nadeau who I had hoped would get the 
word out to your group.  Ten cohousing groups from Western 
Washington(assuming they all show up) are going to meet, talk, show and 
tell and share experiences and information in an informal all day 
gathering. Lunch is provided, dinner is potluck. Bring 1 copy of 
documents or plans you are willing to share with others and 
arrangements will be made for copies for those who want things.  Also 
bring show and tell materials.  There will be ample time for informal 
one on one conversations and hopefully some dancing and games or other 
group fun stuff as well.  In the afternoon we will break up into 
"seminar groups" which will discuss and share specific issues such as 
children, commonhouse design, legal structures etc....The specific 
seminar topics will be brainstormed by the group at the gathering.

The Matrix I refer to was something that Puget Ridge used to program 
their development. The Songaia group modified it, and Sharingwood 
modified it to apply to our commonhouse planning.  Basically our 
version is a grid set up with these headings across the top:

Room,  Size,  Code issues,  Feelings, Functions,  Adjacencies, storage, 
lighting,  special needs

and then along the side we listed each functional space of the commonhouse:

Kitchen
Eating/meeting
Bathroom
Kids place
Entry
Outside

In each of the boxes of the grid we brainstormed all the functions, 
feelings, adjacencie issues, lighting issues etc.  This gave us an 
organized big picture view of each space and all its elements.  We then 
took the brainstorm list and made a large master list out of it and 
gave a copy to each member with 20 blue dot stickers.  Members then 
"voted" on which things they felt were most important by putting 
stickers on them. It was ok to put more than one sticker per item.

We tallied up the "dots" and those items on the list which got more 
than 4 stickers were the priorities for the plans.(mostly)

I think my wife sent a sample of all this to Lynn Nadeau so ask her 
about it.
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