ABSTRACT
The phrase ‘open space’ has its origins in organisational studies and participatory inquiry movements. Delegates to organisational studies conferences began to find the open discussions between the formal agenda items the most fruitful and inspiring spaces to meet. ‘ANI-net scholars are committed to exploring interdisciplinary ways in which artful and collaborative practices of narrative research can extend and enhance the parameters of qualitative inquiry with people; environments and communities. Contemporary university scholarship offers people very few non-competitive, non-hierarchical open inquiry spaces that encourage creative expression and experimentation in making, writing and/or speaking together. The chapter demonstrates the use of the same, or similar, practices over several sessions by a scholar from another local university who was not initially as familiar with this process.
