The document discusses designing church spaces to better facilitate interaction and participation. It proposes distributing workers throughout the seating area so they can influence others. The speaker would move around and involve observers, helping influence spread from the inside out. By nurturing leaders who nurture others, and designing levels of interaction, the space could reach its full potential for discussion, input and feedback, creating an interactive rhetorical situation. Future considerations include developing the concept further and exploring other external factors.

1. Designing Rhetorical Situation
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2. The Issue One way relationship
The influence fade out
On-going problems with current church space.
as the distance goes.
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Current worshipping spaces are able to give seatings for many
audiences. In fact, some could actually provide a space where more
than ten thousand people can interact. However, whenever it comes to
actual interaction, the role of the space seems quite limited. The
influence that the speaker creates and the level of communication in 200m
between the participants are not reaching its full potential.
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3. The Prompt
Nurturing influence, nurturing leadership.
“It seems clear that rhetoric is situational...
situation as a natural context of persons,
events objects, relations, and an exigence
which strongly invites utterance...”
Bitzer. The Character of the Rhetorical Situation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ
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4. The Prompt Nurturing relationship
The influence is spread out
Nurturing influence, nurturing leadership.
similar to a web.
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Involvement and participation comes when leadership is nourished.
When it comes to nurturing leadership, creating and raising sub-leaders,
serving them and teaching them how to serve become significant. All 200m
participants will create mutual interaction and will eventually help the group
to reach its to full potential.
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5. The Research
Thinking about relationships. Workers are clung up
with each other in a
restricted section. They
might be too busy with
The Speaker their work to influence
others.
Providing sermons and discussions, leading
the interaction.
The observers suffer from
one-way relationship, not
getting any interaction
Participant but constantly looking at
the speaker.
Willing to participate, contribute and interact.
The observers are able to
interact with each other
Observer by seeing their faces.
They however are still
Would rather observe and refrain distant from the speaker.
than participate.
The workers are still
excluded in the
interaction.
Worker
Works with the speaker. Choir, engineer, etc.
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6. The Approach
Designing the situation.
The speaker can freely move
around the audience,
encouraging greater feedback
and mutual interaction.
Workers are clung up People sitting around the speaker would
with each other in a not only observe the speaker but would
restricted section. They also observe each other. The level of
might be too busy with interaction would become greater this
their work to influence way.
others.
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7. The Approach
Designing the situation.
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1. Workers are placed evenly throughout the seating, willing to receive input from the speaker and share 200m
the experience with the other workers.
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8. The Approach
Designing the situation.
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2. Speaker moves and speaks. Workers help out the influence. The closest person will keep a certain 200m
attentiveness level and will follow the pace of the whole experience.
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9. The Approach
Designing the situation.
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3. The influenced observers eventually participate, and that participation also inlfuences other observers. 200m
The reactions and feedback the observers would provide implies that they are already starting to interact
with the center group.
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10. The Approach
Designing the situation.
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4. Repeat: The influenced observers eventually participate, and that participation also inlfuences other 200m
observers. The reactions and feedback the observers would provide implies that they are already starting
to interact with the center group.
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11. The Approach
Designing the situation.
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5. When the process reaches its tipping point, the momentum inself will create interactive atmosphere 200m
which introduces more active, willing-to-participate environment that will bring out the full potential of
the group inside the space.
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12. The Approach
Designing the situation.
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6. Disscussion, input, feedback, and etc. Everything would be on a different conversation level. Rhetorical 200m
situation occurs by designing the system within the space.
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13. Overview
Using Rhetorical Situation.
Nurture your leaders.
Let the leaders nurture others.
Design the level of interaction.
Future Considerations
Developing the clarity of the concept.
Effort distribution between the speaker and the workers.
What about color, sound and other external factors?
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