Meetings as physical constructs

The following may be used as metaphors to explore alternative ways of understanding meetings:< [1. Architecture:]

The structural and functional divisions of a meeting may be viewed in terms of architectural analogues, from the simple one- room hut to the complex cathedral, fortress or palace. This raises questions of design and practicality of layout.[2. Tensegrity:]

This recent advance in architectural possibilities (and the basis of the geodesic dome) suggests new ways of balancing configurations of opposing forces in a meeting.

[3. Circuits:]

The variety of components in electric, electronic and fluidic circuits suggest ways of combining well differentiated modes of participant information processing.

[4. Information processing device:]

The whole gathering may be interpreted as a complex bio-mechanical computer processing different types of information, storing it, and forming it into various images of the whole possibly with some final output.