On-line Virtual Journeys
a new form of electronic synchronisation

Created 05 May 2003

The journeys listed on this page represent an archive of the collective development of this practice.

The list will be added to over time.

• New York Wineries was one of the prototypes conducted at the first Odyssey workshop held in August 1999.
• On the Road is a pioneering virtual journey to Rochester New York, "Image Capital of the World" represents the perceptions of four members of the group gained over two journeys between Ithaca, NY and Rochester, the city in which George Eastman transformed photography from a craft to an industry.
• From fatal shore to red centre: repositioning Aboriginal Australia draws on the experiences of the decade spent by the author in Australia by linking diverse aboriginal and migrant views of the Australian experience.
• Foot and Mouth disease in the U.K was developed during the 2001 outbreak which cause widespread devastation across Britain.
• Recovering identity: a Scots 'pilgrimage' is the collective product of the physical journey of two Scottish-based Professors of Transport and the shadow journey through Scottish cyberspace of two virtual companions at an Odyssey Group workshop.
• Ironbridge Gorge: Visible Learning provides an historical example of technology transfer and learning.
• Township Transport is a resource or tool kit which will further participative planning and organisation of transport in South African townships.
• Africa Links provides access to the full set of Africa-related resources developed by the Odyssey Group.
• Movement at the Margins applies the techniques developed in Africa to a U.K. setting
• Townsville Transport was developed as a companion to Township Transport to explore issues of transportation, access and exclusion in Australia that mirror or contrast with those prevailing in South Africa and elsewhere.
• Tatra Transport completes the trio of transport related sites as a repository of practice - good and bad - from around the globe.
• Brand Management at a Distance explores the issue of intellectual property and the separation of design and production in the Free Trade Zones of southern China.
• Hong Kong Transport explores the dynamics between density and transport provision, including the public health dynamics revealed by the SARS outbreak in East Asia.
• Chennai Travels represents the beginning of an on-line collaboration between the Open University Business School, U.K. and the Academy for Management Excellence, Chennai, India.

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This page is maintained by
Stephen Little
Senior Lecturer in Knowledge Management
Open University Business School
Milton Keynes, U.K.
s.e.little@open.ac.uk