Bailrigg

Outline script for a drama documentary based on a walk on the Lancaster campus from Info 21 to
the Spicy Hut. The edited version will assume a day starting with brunch at Info 21 and a small
group of people from an internet cafe. They are preparing to meet potential clients in the evening
at the Spicy Hut. The group seek information and guidance at Info 21 on background ideas about
the knowledge economy, quality assurance as a framework for change, social networking software
for web collaboration, security assurance for wireless communications and anything else
suggested. The intention is to present this to to the client with specifics for their situation, a
conference about meditation and counselling.

The dramatic tension is that

everyone they then meet along
the campus challenges
motivation. The group may get
there but possibly without any
confidence in the value of the
project.
At the first seat after Info 21
things seem ok as they had some
useful advice.

At the George Fox Building they

stumble upon a meeting about
Critical Management Studies
with speakers from the journal
Management Learning.
Assumptions about quality
systems are challenged as
neo-liberal rhetoric and an
attack on academic freedom.
There is support for Chris Grey's
paper "Against Learning" ,
though it is not then easy to
follow.
The group pauses to reflect
under a tree, then continues to
the Management School.
At the Management School cafe
they happen to meet Hugh
Wilmott who expands on
"Making Quality Critical" and
presents a further challenge to
motivation. Discussion on
Network Learning suggests that
there is no basis for web design
that meets the criteria for
dialogue.

Pause for further reflection and

some more coffee.
Visit to bookshop and library.
More sources, more discussion.
Group continues to the Institute
for Advanced Studies. In the cafe
they are told that the ideas
around the knowledge economy
can be seen as neo-liberal
rhetoric. It is also suggested that
security around wireless
communications is not really a
problem as the sense of danger
has been created by marketing
departments.
A visit to the School of Lifelong
Learning restores some sense of
direction. Tutor experience is
that most possible aspects of
Web learning are in use anyway
to some extent.

This note / script has no fixed

ending in mind. The shape of
the plot is linear. The group will
get there, but their conclusions
depend on the rest of the day.
Possible twist, the clients have
decided that website creation is
now obvious and no longer need
any assistance as there is enough
resource in "the cloud".
This note / script has no fixed ending in mind. The shape of the plot is linear. The group will get
there, but their conclusions depend on the rest of the day. Possible twist, the clients have decided
that website creation is now obvious and no longer need any assistance as there is enough
resource in "the cloud".
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http://learn9log.blogspot.com/2007/11/outline-script-bailrigg-this-set-of.html

This script idea partly follows a course last year at the Lancaster Summer School on
autobiography. I have heard Chris Grey and Hugh Wilmott at Lancaster events. Imagining
something similar in the future seems more creative as things may turn out differently. I have
tried to read "Management Learning" and genuinely do not understand what is suggested for
Web design. The Spicy Hut was the venue for a discussion with people from Crucible Research
during the second conference on Management Theory at Work.

http://www.infolab21.lancs.ac.uk/
http://www.lifelonglearning.lancs.ac.uk/
http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/
http://www.crucibleresearch.co.uk/
http://www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home/business/centre_for_communication/
key_principles.html

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