Analytics of Organized Spontaneity: Rethinking Participant Selection, Interaction Format, and Milieu for Academic Forums

In an effort to enhance the odds of " organized spontaneity " the paper advances analytics for selection of participants, format of interaction, and milieu within which the interaction occurs. The analysis proceeds in a two-part process. First, three creative environments far removed from the present day academic forums – eighteenth-century French salons, the eighteenth-century London coffeehouses, and Mensa – are examined to generate analytical distance from our current practices. Second, with these three locales in the background, current practices are analyzed and following thoughts are offered for