2014: The World Within
Worlds Within Walls
- What role do walls serve in society?
- What keeps people inside walls? What keeps people out?
- What is the history of each of the “worlds within walls” below?
- How do you expect these "worlds within walls" will change in the future?
- What happens when the walls come down?
More Questions to Discuss
- How do enclosed environments affect social dynamics?
- Does the meaning of "home" vary from place to place, or from time to time?
- Is collaboration always better than individual work?
- How does the presence of an observer change a group?
- Do students naturally split into cliques—and, if so, should educators stop them?
- Are there ideal ways to organize groups of people?
- Should cults be limited, regulated, outlawed, or embraced?
- Why do secret societies exist, and why do they choose to be secret?
- Does leadership work differently in organizations—behind the walls—than in society at large?
- Do the world's greatest companies share characteristics with cults—and, if so, is that something to criticize or to emulate?
- Should more organizations follow the lead of success stories like Google and Pixar and redesign their offices to encourage collaboration?
- Can online social dynamics have real world impacts?