Last year we teamed up with the International Planned Parenthood Federation and London school of Hygiene and tropical medicine to launch their 3 year innovation project

“Open Space is mysterious, chaotic — we are stepping into the unknown. How will we organize ourselves? What will we accomplish? We won’t know until it’s over, and maybe not even then.” I said something like this to a group of international development professionals, members of the Bond T4D and MEL communities of practice, on Tuesday the 27th of January, 2015.

I often say this sort of thing when introducing the Open Space method of organising events, and it is true. But...