I choose this picture of the Sydney Opera House as the masthead for the documentations of my Talk and Workshop because of the iconic nature of the building and the struggles involved to bring it into being in its present form.

It is interesting that the excellent dialog which came up in the Workshop regarding the differences - which I do not accepts a being different - between theater art and the art of architecture served to highlight the very points I was seeking to make about the design process and the facilitation of it. It is reasonable to think of theater as ethereal and architecture as fixed and static yet I claim that great works in both - actually in all fields - are produced by the same process of continuous design-build-use governed by feedback though multiple iterations of work which in fact never ends. And, that this is always a group process the highest form of which is the practice of GroupGenius.

The Opera House started as a brilliant concept followed by a genuine collaboration between architect, engineers and builders only to be disrupted by political factors. Years later, the architect engaged again to be part of revisions to the structure. Like Shakespeare, recreated in every performance, the Opera House will continue to change and “learn” as Stewart Band describes it in How Buildings Lean throughout it’s time of authentic human stewardship.