John Warfield interviewed by Hilary Austin, Interview No. 2; Aleco Christakis describes IM processes

A DVD copy of an interview of Warfield conducted by Hilary Austin, a graduate student at GMU, on 20 March 1986. This is the second of two interviews and is conducted in the Demosophia Room at GMU. During the interview Warfield responds to questions, explains his rationale for writing the paper Domain of Science, and discusses how his “Cosmic Partition” differs from Alexander Christakis’s “Cosmology.” Following the interview there is a ten minute segment of another video in which Christakis talks about the Interactive Management process and how it is used at the Center for Interactive Management. For more on Warfield’s Cosmic Partition see “Relating the Blocks of the Cosmic Partition”and “Developing a Design Culture in Higher Education: Some Laws and Principles of Design.”




Hilary Austin interviewing Warfield, Interview No. 2 In an interview and discussion session lasting one hour and ten minutes, This is the second of two interviews done by Hilary, in the same year, 1986. Hilary Austin, a graduate student at GMU, was an active associate at the Center during this period. The interview is conducted in the Demosophia (the large Situation Room which was part of the Center for Interactive Management in Thompson Hall at George Mason University). Warfield is seated at the conference table facing Hilary who is off-camera throughout the interview, as are other women graduate students who are sharing the discussion. We know that one of the women was Becky, Warfield's secretary who was also a student, and I think the other girl was Sharon Heidtmann. During the interview Warfield responds to questions about key concepts and his rationale for writing the paper Domain of Science. He also tries to explain his term Cosmic Partition and how it differs from Aleco Christakis's term Cosmology.


A ten minute segment of another videotaping session appears at the end of the Warfield interview. We don't know whether Hilary was overwriting an old cassette, or whether the ten minute segment was added purposely afterward, as a part of the Center for Interactive Management Examples collection. In the ten minute segment, Alexander Christakis describes the Interactive Management process in use at Center for Interactive Management. He is quite obviously working with one or two off-camera assistants on a presentation being prepared for a conference or other publicity. I do not know whether or not the ten-minute Aleco segment is also on the copy of the cassette which was shipped to George Mason University. Note written by r.w. circa 1990. with edits in 2004, 2007





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  • Category: Demosophia, Interactive Management (IM), Professional History, Research History, Science
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