Heiner Benking hastily May20th, 2010-05-20 http://www.open-forum.de/Barcelona-Forum-2010/Oikos-Heiner-ALF-award-proposal-2010.pdf

Summing up for a proposal for the:

see for full scale-whole picture the documentation at: http://open-forum.de/Barcelona-Forum-2010unfortunately the page limitations was only known too late

MY THEME: What do I do towards broader ecological awareness and capacity building bridging NATURE – HUMANITY and CULTURES and where I primarily work: Education, Facilitation, Policy making and bridging towards shared cultural expressions, senses and intelligences...

This is a short summary of my work focused on included wider aspects of environmental awareness, education, research and management on all scales, in all sectors, languages and cultures in an overview and communication mode, trying to bridge the domains and facilitate between natural, cultural, social and “Humanities Studies”.

I am extremely rushing the 2 documents requested for the AWARD APPLCIATION as we only yesterday with Gianluca Solera and Helmut Rieth discussed a possible nomination by Torsten Schramm. IJGD http://www.euromedalex.org/node/9299

We have summarized yesterday with impressions from Barcelona Forum 2010 on the last slide: Closing Session (17), the requirements and challenges outline by Katarina Stigwall: which I subsumed immediate when she presented. I fully resonated with her words as this is my work since nearly 40 years.

• Ecological Sustainability Challenge • Take Culture as a wide overarching

concept which needs to encompass:- spirituality – religions and

values- societal dimension, in social,

economic and political context

• Ökologische Nachhaltigkeit Herausforderung• Kultur ist der Kern unserer Identität und umfaßt:- Spiritualität – Religion und Werte- Gesellschaftliche Dimensionen im sozialen, ökonomischen und politischen Kontext

See: http://www.open-forum.de/Barcelona-Forum-2010/

I was totally struck by her synopsis as our ECOTHEE symposia and other event where focussed on OIKOS – ECUMENE – ECUDOMY in 2008 in Crete: (see link below)And this article on IGNORANCE and COMAPASSION which will also be hitting the streets in another book with this title: Ecological Awareness - Exploring Religion, Ethicsand Aesthetics (forthcoming) Bd. 3, 208 S., Studies in Religion and the Environment publishedon behalf of the European Forum for the Study of Religion and the Environment, ISBN 978-3-8258-1950-7INTERN already now available at: http://benking.de/futures/ECOTHEE--ignorance-compassion.pdfIn view of the UNESCO day of CUTURAL DIVERSITY and this deadline today I just remember and old presentation from TROPEN which can nicely open thie collage on activities around including all requirements requested in Barcelona:

Deutscher Tropentag 1999 - 14.-15-10.1999 - Humboldt-University of Berlinhttp://ftp3.gwdg.de/pub/tropentag/proceedings/1999/navig/adressen.PDF

PLEASE see there also a link to the NEW RENAISSANCE symposium at Humboldt University last year..

I work since the early 70th around environment and ecology, even when astray in between in other areas and came always back to education and communication as we need to build the needed covenant by bridging arts and media:

I recommend and this Earth Charter event presentation on an EMBODIED COVENANT:

And this presentation with ICSU CODATA on maps, models, supersigns and superstructrures CODATA _ MIST http://benking.de/systems/codata/ see also http://benking.de/systems/

ICSU - CODATA Events 1992-2005 ICSU - International Council of Scientific Unions CODATA- Committee on Data for Science and Technology

Multimedia in Sciences and Technologies - Multimedia. - Where Do We Go From Here?

MIST 2005 Berlin, Sept 2005

Using Maps and Models, SuperSigns and SuperStructures

powerpoint slides: very long version

Impressions from Open-Forum Round-Tables exercising magic roundtables and typical

Deutscher Tropentag 1999

Mapping and Managing Bio-Diversity and Cultural-Diversity

T 4.3 S3:3

Dipl. Ing. Heiner BenkingArbeitsgruppe Agrar-Kultur und Sozialökologie

Landwirtschaftlich-Gärtnerische Fakultät HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN

scientific lectures in one symposium.

and in this Encyclopedia where I after inclusion of the terms I coined at the design of the GLOBAL CHANGE exhibition in 1990, was invited to serve on the Academic Committee, please see here: http://benking.de/systems/encyclopedia/newterms/

"Benking entries” in the

International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics:

Academic committee

Encyclopedia Product Sheet:Saur Publishers

0479 COGNITIVE PANORAMA 1) - 2) 10484 COGNITIVE SPACES 1) 1 0999 ECO-CUBE/KNOW MAP 1) - 2) - 3) 22001 MAP (Mental) 2) - 3) 2 2002 MAP TERRITORY RELATION 2) - 3) 32003 MAPPING 2) 3

2104 METAPHORIC FRAMEWORK 1) - 2) - 4) 32105 METAPHORS (Classes of) 2) 3 2228 MULTI-PERSPECTIVISM 1) - 2) - 4) 42462 PANORAMA OF UNDERSTANDING 1) - 2) 42463 PANORAMA THINKING 1) - 2) 4

1) general information 2) methodology or model 3) epistemology, ontology and semantics 4) human sciences 5) discipline oriented

or this presenation:

I work since 20 years now in education as I see the challenge in bridging natural, cultural, social diversities incl. Humanities, as with the Global Change exhibition form May 1990 (which I curate since 1996). http://benking.de/Global-Change/system-earth-posters.htmlhttp://benking.de/futures/Poster-Global-Change-1990.pdf

This has much to do with the TOPOGRAMM environmental research, monitoring and management concepts I worked with around geo-eco-dynamics and much more, so please visit: http://benkig.de/Global-Change/

I work with youth on trying to bridge exact and fine arts, coded and non-coded expressions and sign systems, and Work with YOUTH. Please see our PNW profile in the German ALF Network: http://www.euromedalex.org/node/9299And IJGD which I presented before not only around 1001 ACTIONS FOR DIALOG http://www.euromedalex.org/node/8932

After working in UN – G7 Harmonisation projects I had realized that we have to learn concretely and across domains, scales, levels, languages, and this challenges outline by Katarina exactly addresses these needs..

As I have only 2 hours to write the text for this application I am very desperate, but feel this issues is “me” and I hope we can find more attention and force to reach the necessary wider public awareness and the classrooms, lifelong learning and the situation rooms, as present knowledge and thinking is isolated in silos and segregated, with disciplines fight for “their” turf.

My work since 15+years is trying to bring the issues onto the “table” and help develop courses and youth media platforms, and alter the trans-disciplinary discourse. This also includes other forms of dialog and deliberation for community-building, learning, peace and policy making. as we discussed in Barcelona in the AGORA and exercised at the magic roundtable.

I voluntarily advised also the ijgd www.ijgd.de and represented it in the ALF German network as youth work-camps are ideal vehicles to learn form each other and tear down the

S8: Culture in the Multimedia Information Society

Portals, Switching Systems and Reference Schemas Heiner Benking

http://www.thur.de/philo/Benking/extra_skin.htmlhttp://www.thur.de/philo/Benking/effe_en.htmlhttp://www.geocities.com/~acunu/millennium/resume/res-hb.html

Language Theory for the ComputerJohannes Heinrichs, Heiner Benking

http://benking.de/systematik-9.htmlhttp://www2.hu-berlin.de/soz-oeko/

TKE '99 Terminology and Knowledge EngineeringInnsbruck, August 23-27 1999

walls of ignorance and naivety, and the INBAK institute working in the field of education, work, culture (arts) www.inbak.de and focussing on vocational training, bridging exact and fine arts and looking into energy efficiency, sustainability and quality communication.

My experience is that many of our wording and concepts are disembodied and abstract. To make them “tangible” we build maps and models to jointly learn and be able to negotiate different viewpoints, positions, and perspectives and cultural expressions.

Please see article on UNITY in DIVERSITY, published in the Context of the dialog of Civilizations (first contribution Kofi Annan) and around system sciences (100 years Bertalanffy) all below:

You find relevant links in this list of Hard-cover publications (which include many other links like ECOTHEE mentioned above: http://open-forum.de/Dialog-selected-Publications.htm

Selected Publications about Dialog and Decision Cultures, Conversation, Participation and Deliberations, Mediation and Peacemaking

Ideas, Innovation, Inspiration (I 3) = Stammtisch 2.0 & Stammtisch 3.0 (virtual conferencing) (German parts in English))

STORYTELLING CAFÉ „Magic Round Table“

http://www.open-forum.de/events/storytelling-open-forum-rundgespraeche-procedere-FES-2008-doc.pdfhttp://www.partizipative-methoden.de/uploads/BB-PZ-Programm081107.pdfhttp://www.partizipative-methoden.de/

http://www.open-forum.de/events/RunderTisch-procedere-2008/ http://www.open-forum.de/events/voices-procedere-2008/voices.html

Ecological Theology and Environmental Ethics - ECOTHEEOrthodox Academy of Crete, 2-6 June, 2008 ISBN 978-960-86383-5-8 List of Contents Contribution Benking:Missing Context and Orientations in Modern Times:see also AGORA exercise at the Academy and:21stCenturyAgora retrospective inquiry. TOWARDS A NEW COVENANT:EMBRACING A DIALOGUE AND DECISION CULTURE TO ADDRESS THE CHALLENGES OF THE AGORAS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Using Systems Thinking to Construct Agoras of the Global Village

World Futures, Publisher: Taylor & FrancisThe Journal of General Evolution

DIALOGUE AMONG CIVILIZATIONSRole of Culture in Dialogue among Civilizations

“ Dialogue Toward Unity in Diversity" ISBN: 159267044X

Gesprächs- und Entscheidungskultur: Rundgespräche und Vereinbarungen als Elemente einer wünschenswerten, zukünftigen Zivilgesellschaft

8.3. Dialog und LernenThe Unifying Aspects of CulturesTRANS - Studies on the Changing of the World

Dialogues and ConversationsParticipation and Moderation/Mediation: Ways and Means towards Re-inventing Democracy and Good-Governance

New Agoras for the 21st Century: Conscious Self- Guided Evolution, Cultivating Dialogue with Magic Round Tables & IFSR 1998 Asilomar, ISSS and Fuschl 2002 and 2004, Team 1, New Agoras see synopsis

"Traumland Intensivstation" Neue Räume Öffnen - Kreativität durch Dialog

Open Space inter-religious and in hospital and church environment about coma and intensive medicine

Kreative Medien im Dialog06 Dialog - Kommunikation im Zeitalter der Medienökologie

Von den Mythen der Buchkultur zu den Visionen der Informationsgesellschaft (Quellen)

Welt-Ethik-Gipfel - RUNDE TISCHESchnittstelle zwischen Experten und BevölkerungEthik-Kodex 2000 - Antworten auf die Frage nach dem SinnRundgespräche - Eine wichtige Gesprächskultur als Voraussetzung für eine Ethik des Miteinander

See this LIST:

"Projekt Friedensuniversität: Von der Konfrontation zur dialogischen Kultur", Publication 2000 and Frieden Durch DialogPeace University Open Forum Outcomes Summer University 1995Concluding event, Renaissance Theater, Berlin 1995Background-papers and the http://www.21stcenturyagora.org website

and please see the Council of Europe Symposium in the Prag Castle with Havel in 1995. !!!http://benking.de/meta-paradigm.htm

Conference on New Space for

Culture and Society Please visit also the Conference Agenda: A Paradigm Shift? Orchestrating Representations Like Knowledge Trees and Knowledge Spaces

page 83 -84:

A Metaparadigm or Sharable Framework - (Cognitive Panorama) Heiner Benking, The Club of Budapest

Objective: To counteract Cyberculture's anticipated impact due to its 1.) 'open- ended' universality, 2.) loss of meaning, and 3.) loss of context, impact, as reflected in the metaphor of the 'Second Flood' (Lévy 1996), the proposal of a 'Cognitive Panorama' allows us to embody and map concepts in their context and develop 'common frames of reference'.

The proposed Conceptual Superstructure defines and identifies topics as logical places, displays relations, and connections within this topics or issues, and helps us in this way to locate and become aware of 1.) what we know and miss, 2.) where we are and what we think, and 3.) where we mis-, under-use or manipulate information. By avoiding a 'flat' chaotic mess of data which leads to the known 'lost- in-space' syndrome, we actually define cognitive spaces, making use of the known orientational and organisational benefits. Through reflection on conceptual positions, outlining and embodying situations or topics (logical places or containers), we can follow meaning into embodied context and semantic spaces and also scrutinise abstract 'realities' by exploring participatory and collaboratory approaches.

OUR VIEW OF LIFE TOO FLAT workshops with kids and Futurists in Finland:

XIII World Conference of World Futures Studies Federation,COHERENCE AND CHAOS IN OUR UNCOMMON FUTURES-Visions, Means, Actions -Turku, Finland August 3-27, 1993

This text is produced as a technical FAW Report TR-93019It was not published in the WFSF proceedings.

PLEASE SEE IN THE TURKU Documentation ALSO:

S CHILDREN Session Summary: "Proposing a New World View - Our View-of-Life is too flat"

S Objectives S Highlights

S 12 Theses for Education "OUR VIEW OF LIFE IS TOO FLAT" S presentation overheads and poster texts

Visual Access Strategies for Multi-Dimensional Objects and Issues

A new World View, based on the Hyperlink ECO-CUBE, for better understanding and communication about multi-disciplines like Ecology

Heiner Benking 1993

"As we teach, so do we learn, as we learn, so do we practice."

maybe this helps for the way:

CREATIVITY AND COGNITION 1996 _________________________________________________________ Loughborough University & Loughborough College of Art & Design Loughborough, England - Chair: Prof. E.A.Edmonds http://creative.lboro.ac.uk/lutchi/c_cog96_workshop.prog.html oops – they moved to Sydney: http://www.creativityandcognition.com/cc_conferences/lutchi/author_ab

Im Rahmen der “ Fliegenden Agenda“, Stand 9

„Zukünfte brauchen Ideen/Visionen und Flügel“

Gemeinsam ganzheitlich lernenModelle und Ordnungen als Spiel- und Gestaltungsräume

zum Erkunden und Gestalten realer und virtueller „Realitäten“ (Imagination)

Heiner BenkingMillennium Project Berlin Co-Lab

SONDERSCHAU GLOBALES LERNEN

stracts.html

Creativity and Cognition Research Studios — New creative media and technology centre at Loughborough University

Viewpoint, Generation, Transportation and Composition Heiner Benking

In order to intersect in a transdisciplinary and transcultural sense, within, between and beyond domains, we need other vehicles, other modes of motion and mental mobility and a framework for orientation. In this paper, we propose a reference and representation space for subjects and objects, real and imaginary, abstract and fictive. The Panorama utilizes spaces as bodies or knowledge or meta-knowledge, a space to mark even the things we leave blank and by using metaphorics or orientation and exploration and by becoming accustomed to realms we can grasp mentally as we are used to grasping objects physically : in short, a medium between concepts and context. The notion of space is common across cultures as people experience space in early childhood. The Panorama combines SPACES into one composite 3xSpace/Time Panorama or ThinkSPACE, getting away from thinking within single concepts and boxes, but finding common structures and transferring knowledge and meta-knowledge. Such a movement enables an exchange of positions and perspectives, allows us to discuss new avenues into cross-disciplinary areas in subjects such as education, management, organization, philosophy. http://creative.lboro.ac.uk/lutchi/author_abstracts.html#hb

http://www.creativityandcognition.com/cc_conferences/lutchi/c_cog96_workshop.prog.html#short and:

1996 VISION Plus 2

SEHEN, FUEHLEN VERSTEHEN

Since 1995 IIID has organized under the auspices of UNESCO seven interdisciplinary, international symposiums "Vision Plus" together with Fachhochschul-Studiengänge-Vorarlberg, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, the Federal Ministry of Science and Transport, Tama Art University in Tokyo and the Institute for Economic Developement of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce.

IIID hat seit 1995 unter der Patronaz UNESCOs sieben interdisziplinäre, internationale Symposien"Vision Plus" gemeinsam mit den Fachhochschul-Studiengängen-Vorarlberg, der Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, dem Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Verkehr, der Tama Art University in Tokyo und dem Wirtschaftsförderungsinstitut Wien veranstaltet.

Mental Models, Metaphors, and the Mind s Eye Orientation and Mapping in Spaces of Meaning

Heiner Benking, The Club of Budapest, FAW, University of Ulm, D

goto: http://benking.de/IIID-VSION-PLUS.html

1001 ACTIONS for dialog !! www.open-forum.de (PNW) See also the synopsis of the BARCELONA FORUM Magic Roundtables: http://open-forum.de/Barcelona-Forum-2010/MagicRoundtable-Barcelona.pdf(also presented and distributed in Weimar with Helmut Rieth, as he also participated a the 10001 Seeds of Change for the UNESCO – DESD in 2008 in Bonn. http://open-forum.de/10001-Seeds.pdf pls see here page 4 bridging cultural commons concepts not only form China and Arabia, see: for example Bait al Hikma, Ecudomy, or Chines KOSMOS representations:

Please follow the links to 1001 Actions for Dialog of the ALF we participated in 2008/9 at the German National Network events: see 2008: http://open-forum.de/re-invent-democracy.html#1001-dialogue-actions

We design workshops with youth on OUT OF THE BOX THINKING and PARADIGM MAPPING where we use the concrete shared and possibly negotiated concepts and maps and spaces and outlined above. (NEEDS TO BE EXPANDED !!!)

I am awfully sorry as my time is running out – but I hope someone will find the time now or later to check with youth, media and new thinking and languaging what I mean.Maybe see this page from the Nobel Peace Laureats event in berlin when the Berlin wall had come down 20 years earlier: http://quergeist.net/Peace-Laueats-Climate-Berlin-Oslo-selection.pdf where this is questioned and where I contributed:

Third session:Walls of menace to the EnvironmentBreaking down the walls that constrain environmental and sustainable development prospects). [Audio and Video]New Science, new Language, new Thinking ?HOW ABOUT?OLD and proven, traditional and NEW Thinking and Doing and Sharing ?

and some concrete recommendations are made: (including mapping and outlining GLOBAL COMMONS, see Elinore OSTROMs contribution outlined in slide 3, summing up her 30 yersw life-time achievement for which she got the NOBEL Prize in Economics last November)

This might also help us bridge, merge, and morph realities and combine cultures and diversities: !And come to new forms of listening and deliberation!See our 21 Century Agora site:http://21stcenturyagora.org/ http://sites.google.com/site/21stcenturyagora/system/app/pages/sitemap/hierarchy

and this Nov 2009

Interview: in Think tank europe Learnings and Vistas based on revisiting 40 years "Global

Problematique"summing up 40 years "Predicament of Mankind" (Club of Rome early report), look-outs, and new forms of structured dialog and deliberation / decision cultures

Reflections and a work reporttowards shared frames of references and visionsin a big-picture overview „mode“ or „scaffolding“

Heiner BenkingIndependent Futurist and Facilitator

TAGORE-EINSTEIN COUNCIL Eighth International Tagore - Einstein ConferenceAsian Pacific Weeks in Berlin 15-28. September 2003

Wanted: A Global (Integral) Covenant

Summing up, why not try with one incomplete but coherent and complete an concrete picture?

I wrote a lot about 4 D or 9D but also 2 D and round look appealing when meaningful and help to get along – find our way – find orientation as EINSTEIN requested as an antidote to singular – disconnected knowledge !!

http://mattersofconsequence.com/MOCfig2.htmlhttp://mattersofconsequence.com/index.html

These files presentations were important, on the way….

Windows into and a WorkReport on:

E-Learning International Cooperation Education for Sustainability

ENCOS 2004

1st European Networks Conference on Sustainability in Practice, 1-4 April 2004, Berlin

Heiner Benking Independent Facilitator and Futurist

MANY THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTIONAND FOR TAKING THE PAIN TO LOOK at pictures and words, as you might remember for them a pictures is worth 10 000 words, and their language looks “top- down” from context to detail, much different from what children learn in European Cultures.

HEiner Benking

PS:I met and consulted the founders of POWERPOINT in the mid 80ies, so I am fond of infographique – infographics since 1981 ! – I have to leave you know with my picture-strom for most of you – but only to keep in mid that we have to be aware of the context and values connected in shared spaces !!

PPS : Immersed into the ”Credibility of Ecology” Trilogy in the mid 80ies (GeoJournal, written by diCastri and Hadley (UNESCO Ecology Division). I feel we need to expand this to the Credibility of the Concept of Cultures, as there are humane, social, cultural ecology fields and society urgently needing a common ground and shared languaging see NO WALLS link above….

I recently had an invitation CBD research director jo mulongoy <jo.mulongoy@cbd.int> to come to Montreal where the topic with UNESCO is bridging biological and cultural diversity. http://www.cbd.int/meetings/icbcd/ (the expanded programm is unfortunaltely cancelled and “shrunk” into a one day executive high level section !!

Future Prospects for Constructivism

Cybernetics – quo vadis ?Heiner Benking

Independent Facilitator and Futurist

WISSEN ORGANISATION GESELLSCHAFT

In cooperation with:

American Society for Cybernetics (ACS)2003 Conference Vienna, Austria, Nov. 13-15

Heinz von Foerster und das Biological Computer Laboratory

INTERNATIONALER HEINZ VON FOERSTER KONGRESS

I had presented at the TROPIC Day at Humbold University in 1999 exactly that theme and I can ask for a letter of recommendation form UN-CBD Montreal if that would help…

A good outline of my “developments” were don for the UN year of the MOUNTAINS some years ago:

WELTMUSEUM DER BERGE: Raum und Virtualität: Potential oder Leere?Benking, H.: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Datenpräsentation durch Computergrafik im Umweltbereich, ... Prague Castle, Czech Republic, http://benking.de/meta-paradigm.htm ... Culture Committee (CC-CULT), Council of Europe, October, 1996 ...www.inst.at/berge/virtualitaet/benking.htm

Last not least I recommend the UN AMR recommendations and how they link into the issues of values and deliberation and capacity building/peace-making:http://www.quergeist.net/AMR-2008/

e – DISCUSSION ON ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The theme for the 2008 AMR is "Implementing the internationally agreed goals and commitments in regard to sustainable development".

A moderated e-discussion on Achieving Sustainable Development is being jointly organized by the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) and UNDP from 4 February to 14 March 2008 as part of the larger global consultation process for the 2008 Annual Ministerial Review. Experts, practitioners and policy-makers, from within and outside of the UN system, will interact within this online forum to share relevant experiences and generate practical input towards this year's AMR. Hosted on MDGNet - http://www.un.org/ecosoc/newfunct/amredis.shtml

http://benking.de/open-forum/dialog/Transcultural_Dialog_and_Peace.htm prepared for Helmuth Rieth Anna Lindh Forundation Alexyandria:

N) Proposal for Anna-Lindh-Foundation, European – Mediteranian Countries, Berlin-Alexandria 2008. Transcultural Dialog and Peace-Making

Roundtable learning from experience during the last 40 years and new ideas

Stumbling blocks preventing true dialog, peace-making, and reconciliation:

1) we fight over words but do not check the meaning,

2) we do not question and compare the values attached to statements and attitudes,

3) we do not contextualize and embody concepts and meaning, do not check the sectors, regions, scales, proportions and consequences of alternative actions,

4) we do not give voice, empower, listen, cherish and cultivate difference or variety in dialog and decision making,

5) Disorientation and dumbing-down in Cyberculture and a mis-administered and misunderstood, intangible “Globalisation / Glocalisation”: Where we get overloaded by communication noise (sign/symbol melange) and media demagogy which means: no trust and fidelity in the statements and no ways and means to check the credibility and impact/relevance, and get lost between the scales, brackets, and sectors.

6) The above incompatibility and incomparability opens the door for over-claims and oversimplifications. Leaders use intangible jargon (plastic-words), neglect impacts and avoid instead of exploring differences and alternatives.

I also propose revisiting: all Proposals A-Z done for a unique AMR on Sustainability

M) Earth Literate Leaders and Modern Media & Maps & Models – see Map Analphabetism and UNESCO’s Literacy programmes. About World Map truth, truthing, fidelity and visual demagogy in computer graphics and visualisation. See LITERACY – FLAT WORLDS and the models and cosmologies connected to it, and what it means to ecological footprints and thematic densitiy maps, and the relation and overlap of issues. See here the problem maps of the Club of Rome’s Predicament above (Christakis).

And here some other recommendations:

presented here:

And:

US NRC NAS UCAR's "GRAND CHALLENGES TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES" (unveiled 2000)

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/MediaAlerts/2000/200009254053.html http://books.nap.edu/books/0309072549/html/91.html#pagetop

Virtual World Proposal LOI

benking.de/Global-Change/grand-challenges.html. And please make sure you visit from above for more: this Questions: I. Challenges countries face in ...www.benking.de/futures/Humanities-VirtualWorld_Proposal_LOI-Benking.pdf

Harnessing Virtual Worlds for Arts and Humanities ResearchSynopsis of Program: Scholars and researchers from many disciplines within the humanities are on the verge of a profoundchange in the way they search for, construct, and present knowledge to colleagues. Virtual Worlds, in addition to an array ofother digital tools, will bring about significant changes within the humanities by facilitating multi-institutional, cross-disciplinaryresearch and collaboration as well as providing new ways to recreate and contextualize evidence that heretofore was impossibleto study or publish. <snip> see the original call by the Federation of American Scientists and SRI International on thelast page or: www.fas.org/programs/ltp/emerging_technologies/humanities/_Media/proposal-harnessingvirtual.pdf

Virtual World Proposal LOI (by Heiner Benking)This LOI is done late night after the UNESCO-DESD and UNU gatherings in BonnUNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development ...by a German who is "electrified" by the title, scope, and potential and potential of using real virtual worldsfor participatory explorations and negotiations. After subsuming and resonating I feel it is time to bringtogether real and virtual "places" as a combination of augmented and merged and morphed index and orientation spaces so we can display and immerse into fields or patterns that connect.I have presented the pro's and con's of virtual reality and public spaces at the University in Tuebingen in 1994: http://benking.de/VR-Oeffentlichkeit-pro-con.html see link to:

and this UN Vision TELEVISON contribution about cultural rights, needs, responsibilities when I was much involved with UNESCO Science for Peace, Culture of Peace and the HUMANE Information Society: maybe check:

UNESCO - IIAS – Culture of Peace, 1997See my letter to Lynton Caldwell an the paper SHOW or SCHAU. .... I have moved both papers later to my German website: www.benking.de ...www.open-forum.de/Culture-of-Peace-IIAS-1997.htm

un-vision-televisionYang Lan, Anchorwoman, Hon Kong at the 'Programming for People' session on Thursday 20 Nov. 1997 at about 5:20 hrs by Heiner Benking, freelance writer and ...http://benking.de/Global-Change/un-vision-television.html

And this on LITERACY on the occasion of UNESCO’s 60

"Time for Renewal" - Time to fight Map-"Analphabetism"on occasion of UNESCO's 60th Anniversary today, on November 16th, 2005

Read about the importance of accurate, true and fidel MAPS,and teaching the world's children to accurately read and look through those maps.

UPDATE May 2006

.FLAT WORLDS:TODAY AND IN ANTIQUITY

http://www.mse.berkeley.edu/faculty/deFontaine/flatworlds.html

and on Models with the CLUB OF BUDAPEST members Meeting at UNESCO headquarters in Paris: http://benking.de/cob-paris.html

http://benking.de/cob-paris.html

Positions and Identities in Global Contexts:

Awareness of Self and Others with me, you, we, they and "others"

models

UNESCO Headquarters, Paris 1997

Situational Analysis

Positionality and Personality are deeply intertwined and so is our identity connected to our fields of activities, influence, and frames of references.

The issue is that we think, act, and associate not just for ourselves "the I" in modern societies or just our families, friends, groups, clans, nations, "the we", but also with other's, something apart from us like the "you" or the others.

Traditionally we have been focussing on the me and the you, ignoring the positions and personalities of others and ignoring the greater whole of all beings or the we of Gaia's earthlings, or other living thingssss or communicates, and maybe even aliens or call it "other".

To concretely communicate and share individual positions, differences and commons and constructively realise differences and create greater commons we have to keep in mind not only the who, but also the where, how and what.

What we are talking here about are fields within fields, or patterns within patterns and meta-patterns.

The Problems

Our language and ways of thinking and reasoning (dualistic and clockwise) approaches, our labelings and maybe call it "box thinking". Footnote 1, and our annotations and sign systems, where we separate our representations into -sign-systems which are isolated symbols, icons and indexes (according to C.S. Peirce. Not connecting like in our living world our observations and concepts like our perception through the senses in the natural world leads to another deep canyon for our shared mental constructions.

Focussing with de-constructivism, constructivism and radical constructivism into one-eyed or ego-centered construction in our sweet isolation leads into and reinforces isolation and hinders shared observations and realities.

Another issue are the different scale platforms, our actions and effects we cause on other levels, spacial and temporal dimensions. Finally we have to connect this with other spheres, other cultures and languages.

One possible way which needs exploration and testing - AND connections to other ways and means to re-connect

If we embody fields of action and interests we can relate and overlay these "fields within fields", (Stuhlman) we can see patterns and meta-patterns that connect Ĭ If we only tentatively and pragmatically agree on shared imaginary spaces (3-dimensional and extensional).

Why all this trouble?

(box thinking and clock-wise thinking or old&new embodied or tangible thinking and communicating (sharing)!?

Is it not enough to separate the "me" and the "you", the "in" versus the "out", the "urban" and the "pagan", the natural vs. the cultural, the black vs. the white, ecology vs. deep-ecology, north vs. south, east vs. west, body vs. soul, real / material vs. virtual (imaginary/potential/immaterial), exoteric /esoteric, perspective vs. a-perspective, coded (signs) vs. non-coded (icons), good vs. evil, given vs. not-given?

And through this labelling and "boxing" (Schachteldenken) make order and seperate, divide and govern (divide et impera) ?

I want to show here that we need to get beyond such "over-simplistic" see: http://www.ceptualinstitute.com/genre/benking/overview.htm ignorance, because this only makes us believe we know and have orientation, when we have not !

See also:

http://www.ceptualinstitute.com/genre/benking/m-p/meta-paradigm.htmThe COUNCIL of EUROPE (CEC) event which took place in November 1996 made .... The paper highlighted as a METAPARADIGM proposes a Conceptual Superstructure. ... Heiner Benking http://benking.de http://newciv.org/cob/members/benking

And SHOW or SCHAU: as presented with

Benking CHALLENGES - SHOW OR SCHAUThe attached comment by Heiner Benking was invited by L.K. Caldwell and will be .... There the panel "experts" from policy, science, and engineering met with activists and .... PLEASE go to: http://benking.de/show-schau-postscript.htm ...www.benking.de/show-schau.htm

Is Humanity Destined to Self-Destruct?Cross-National Differences and Knowledge Gaps in Environmental Policy , ... http://benking.de/show-schau.htm and thank again Lynton Caldwell for his nice and ...http://benking.de/perspect/perspectives-cover.htm

see also: The “ECO_CUBE” or Rubiks Cube of Ecology was developed in 1989 ...... Panorama (see Council of Europe – meta-paradigm paper) and the links below, ... The design and construction of Heiner Benking from 1987- now was ...www.benking.de/cube/

FINALLY, I feel these presentations might we worthwhile to revisit in times to come in roder to reach mount awareness and do something that matters in times of challenges ahead across time – cultures – scales – languages and the ”attached” proportions and consequences:

Ordnungs -, Orientierungs-, und Sinnkrise

Die Neuen Medien -Kommunikative Gesellschaft ?Studium generale, Humboldt - Universität zu Berlin 17.1. 2000

Welche Welt ? Welche Metaphern ? ein Gefängnis ein Varieté eine Show ein Labyrinth eine Bombe eine finale Flut ein süßer Brei ?

Premier forum des solutions pour le développeme nt de s musées et expositions 17-18. 11.1998 - Cité des S ciences et de l'Industrie

Journe e

ACCESS MULTIMEDIA AU PATRIMOINE CULTUREL

Knowledge Organization and education in the age of digital culture: an outlook

Heiner BenkingGermany

http://n ewciv.org/cob/members/benking/http://www.cep tualinstitute.c om/genre /benk ing/homepageHB1.htmh

LA UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID(Dep. Comunicación Audiovisual y Pub. II)

19 – 21 de noviembre de 1998con la participación de ARENOTECH (Association Européenne

ART-ÉDUCATION-NOUVELLES TECHNOLOGIES )

Ecologiade la Naturaleza y

Cultura

Écologiede la Nature et Culture

A Knowledge Ecology- for Nature, Culture & Cyberculture,

- for Economy & Ecology, - for Overview, Orientation &

Understanding

Heiner Benking, Germany

CONVOCA LAS

I JORNADAS EUROPEAS

"EDUCACIÓN Y TECNOLOGÍAS

EN LA SOCIEDAD DE LA INFORMACIÓN"N

Culture Navigation and Reference Rooms:A Futuristic „Out-look“

Questioning the next turn in Culture and „CyberCulture“ –What will happen after the „linguistic-“ and „iconic turn“ ?

Heiner BenkingIndependent Facilitator and Futurist

Associate, Millennium Project, Berlin CoLab

European Commission MEDICI FrameworkEuropean Commission MEDICI Framework13.- 20. March 2002

Welcome to the Future

A work reporttowards developing shared models

for broader and contextual understanding and a concert of orienting generalizations for helping to overcome dualistic traps and include

specialist and generalistic cultural activities.

Heiner BenkingIndependent Facilitator and FuturistI

EWOC 04, Toronto, October 2004by Heiner Benking, BerlinTagore-Einstein Council, Open-Forum, PNW,…

Towards one possible global embodied Covenant:

Models, - not just Systems, Signs, Words and Images

Global Sharing and CopingStarting Points

HARMONIZATIONThe first and most central entry points have been arounda G7 and SRU German Environmental experts initiative which was taken up by the UN - Environment Programme UNEP - HEM.

GLOBAL CHANGEThe other started with the GLOBAL CHANGE conference 1988 in Moskow. Germany and other countries had been invited to present„Challenges to Science and Politics“ in form of Conferences and Exhibitions. As I was invited to contribute I had to think anew on how such complex Issues could be communicated to the broaderpublic, raising awareness and consciousness, and being correct and helpful for scientists , politicians, and industry at the same time. I gopublic now 1998 as after having this touring exhibition 8 years in Germany, but never been shown outside Germany, and beingupdated and in high demand, there is high danger of losing thispiece and milestone . Politics look east and local when theexhibition was opened in May 1990. The result we haveno publiceye and information about theexhibition, its scope and results. As this is fatal in my view , I fee I haveto change and address that.

I could have also called this UIA guest page GLOBAL CHANGE or LOCAL AND GLOBAL CHANGE - as my work started aboutglobal environmentalissues in 1988 with such wide and universal themes. Only because I was involvedin two or more projects at that time, and havea certain backgroundwhich was about preparingand documentingdecisions and presentingresults, I was able to make the bridge, combinewhat normally is not seen as one- or in onesolution. As bothproject concepts are not onlyof wider interest and uniquein their approach, specially in their time we are proposinghere to follow each backgroundindependentlyand then join in again the flow of events.

Towards a New Renaissance 3Harmonising Spirituality, Nature and Health

EMBODYING and SHARING NEW SPACESSharing Commons in an Embodied Covenant

Bringing together cultural expressions, sign systems,perspectives and positionalities

Heiner BenkingTagore-Einstein Council, Council of Global Issues, Open -Forum

SYNTHESIS and Call for Shared Action:

Challenges / Orientations and Lessons Learnedand Participation Opportunities and Options

Heiner BenkingJournalist, long-time experience with global issues, event planning, strategy advising

Secretary of the Council of Global Issues and the Tagore-Einstein Council

Vegetarianism: Essential to Save the Planet? Sunday, Dec 13th, Copenhagen UNFCCC COP 15

Kurt Hanks, OUT OF THE BOX THINKING

http://21stcenturyagora.org/ http://www.globalagoras.org/

Co-Laboratories of DemocracyHow Co-Laboratories Of Democracy Work

Problematic Situation Discover root causes; Adopt consensual action plans: Develop teams dedicated to implementing those plans, Generate lasting bonds of respect, trust, and cooperation.

[more]: New Renaissance 3, UN COP15 – UNFCCC side events Copenhagen 2009, Continuously updated this Blog:

www.quergeist.info

Breaking Down New Walls10th Annual Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Berlin, November, 9-11 2009 

Third session: Walls of menace to the Environment Breaking down the walls that constrain environmental and sustainable development prospects). [Audio and Video]

New Science, new Language, new Thinking ?

HOW ABOUT? OLD and proven, traditional and NEW

Thinking and Doing and Sharing ?

"Values in Isolation are like facts in isolation, they are meaningless !

The facts alone are meaningless. Only when they appear

at the end of a destructive chain do they take on richness, perspective, and

significance�

Henry Margenau, OPEN VISTAS

WE ARE CELBRATING 20 years of the GLOBAL CHANGE exhibition on May 30th so we are very busy presently, but maybe you enjoy!?http://benking.de/futures/Poster-Global-Change-1990.pdfhttp://benking.de/Global-Change/

see the Cube and the Cognitive Panorama

Pointers to possibilities: Ekistics, Dymaxion World and Eco-Cube The metaphor offered by Rubik's Cube was used by Heiner Benking to develop a "Rubik's Cube of Ecology" in 1990 (as part of the Global Change touring exhibition) as a means of explaining the nature of integration and of developing a framework for co-ordination and harmonisation across various fields, areas, regions, disciplines and domains (Visual Access Strategies for Multi-Dimensional Objects and Issues, 1993). It was designed to offer a new world view, using a hyperlinked Eco-Cube, for better understanding and communication about multi-disciplines like ecology.

Views of the Eco-Cube

The Eco-Cube is reminiscent of the Ekistics Grid developed by C.A, Doxiadis as a framework for organizing information relevant to ekistics as the science of human settlements. This has been used to further develop ekistic concepts, and also in the application to practical problems. Such a grid display any component within two dimensions at a point of intersection of abscissa and ordinate The abscissa of ekistic units remained constant in all uses of the ekistic grid, and the most usual ordinate consisted of the five ekistic elements: Nature, Anthropos (Man), Society, Shells (dwellings or buildings), and Networks, with a sixth line denoting their Synthesis.

Global Sharing and Coping

PLEASE NOTE:

(unfortunately lots of presentations are only available in German on this matter – and other matters relevant to this collage – SO MAYBE WE TRY A FLICKENTEPPICH LATER <sik>

BUT MAYBE we get this recent 2 abstracts for October 2010 in Berlin “accepted” by “peer review” <sik>

PAPER 1: CHRISTAKIS 1) Coming to Our Senses: Dimensionality of Socio-Cultural Systems in Organizing Collective WisdomPAPER 2: BENKING 2) Finding Transcendent Ways to Unite People and Issues in the field of Human and Global Change

1)Coming to Our Senses: Dimensionality of Socio-Cultural Systems in Organizing Collective Wisdom

Christakis, Alexander N. (1); Benking, Heiner (2); Flanagan, Tom (3) Organization(s): 1: Institute for 21st Century Agoras; 2: Council on Global Issues; 3: Institute for 21st Century Agoras Submitted by: Dr. Alexander N. Christakis (Institute for 21st Century Agoras, GR), ID: 1220 Themes: Social causes of environmental change

Keywords: dialog, deliberation, peacemaking, social systems design, system sciences, planning, clusters, drivers, mapping, Interactive Management, Information Management, Agora, Transformation, ...

Abstract Planners who work to support the emergence and transformation of sociocultural systems need to work across multiple planes of activity, influence and interaction. These include abstract issues of differing value systems and concrete challenges of finite physical resources. When sorting through a complex array of issues and opportunities, the planning process benefits from explicitly establishing the dimensionality of the situation. Understanding this dimensionality guides planners to consider features of all of the dimensions of a situation in plans for future action.

The dimensionality of a complex situation is most reliably established through the use of abductive logic as pioneered by Charles Sanders Peirce. This principle has been extensively validated through the Archanesian geometry, which serves as the foundation of Interactive Management and Structured Dialogic Design (SM). The challenge in meaningful application of abductive logic in complex situations is that the task must be implemented through a collaborative convergence of a sufficiently diverse community of perspectives. No single "expert" can derive an abductive solution independently because no one can possibly have the requisite scope of understanding that is needed to produce an inclusive product.

Building upon the pioneering work of Constantinos Apostolos Doxiadis in the field of idealized design of human settlements, Alexander Nicholas Christakis has collaborated closely with Hasan Ozbekhan, John Warfield and other thought leaders in the field of systems science. Dr. Christakis' work spans integrated work in eliciting tacit knowledge and fuzzy understandings from highly diversified planning groups, leading those groups into discovery of meaning, in to the construction of dimensional understandings and systems view, and supporting the emergence of strongly held commitments for collaborative action.

2)Finding Transcendent Ways to Unite People and Issues in the field of Human and Global Change

Benking, Heiner (1); MacBryde, David (2); King, Lynn (3) Organization(s): 1: Tagore-Einstein Council, Berlin, Shantiniketan; 2: Yale University , Berlin; 3: SageVision, Shanghai Submitted by: Heiner Benking (Tagore-Einstein Council, DE), ID: 1316 Themes: Theories and conceptsKeywords: Education, cognition, creativity, frames, schemas, models, maps, visualization, overview, orientation, oversimplifications, overclaims, world-views, systems, complexity, dialog, deliberation, embodiment, participation, deliberation, games, situation rooms

Abstract Our community of environmental research and management is as fragmented as the whole scientific community and humanity. Why? Are there ways for meaningful exchange across languages, subjects and scales? We need transcendent ways to unite people -- through expression of diverse viewpoints, seeing the bigger picture, and negotiating common ground, understanding overlaps, connections, and differences.

Review of issues, reports and “out of the box thinking” including paradigm mapping showing the historical context of communication and cognitive challenges, is essential. Using innovative maps, models, approaches, and concepts, we will create a shared ‘chain of methods’ (Methodenkette) that can be negotiated upon.

1) “Switching Systems” between languages, terminologies and taxonomies (Ingetraut Dahlberg);

2) Multidisciplinary foundations of multidimensional issues (Stephen Jay Kline);

3) System Earth models of combined spaces (Cognitive Panorama / Eco-Cube from the Global Change exhibition);

4) A spectrum of meaning (Herbert Stachowiak), concept and context terminology, mappings & meta-data harmonization;

5) "Commons" presented a nested, multi-modal, policentric, actor based and across scales sectors (Elinor Ostrom);

6) Facilitation and visualization workshops as above (Kurt Hanks);

7) Integration of sign-systems in embodied immersive schemas (models), and

8) a look at other cultures and other representational forms -- e.g. Chinese written characters are supersigns, as they integrate elements into shared frames or superstructures (see ICSU-CODATA workshops on the future of multi-media).

There is an obvious need to change our modes and paradigms in concrete, sharable ways. Past fallacies in communication involved a lack of shared frames of references, even though there was a mandate since Rio '92 to become aware of such commons. If the web of life is to survive on earth, a blended best practices of all aspects society and environment, must emerge.

This workshop offers practical exercises to tackle the above collective dilemmas at hand and reviews work done around establishing collective normative, participatory and prognostic futures.

O p e n -Fo ru m O p e n -S p a c e

Re-inventing Democracy with generative and disciplinedtransdisciplinary – intergenerational – intercultural

Dialogues and Conversationshttp://open-forum.de/open-space-open-forum.html

http://www.benking.de/open-forum/events/NeuesEuropa.htmlhttp://sunsite.utk.edu/FINS/loversofdemocracy/

http://open-forum.de/Dialogue_and_DecisionCulture.htmlhttp://www.benking.de/dialog/dialog-among-civilizations.htm

the challenge is to have no just one competence but combining and using what is needed to cope and get along at all scales and using not only one “grid”, or schema, or competence bring them ecologically and economically, humane and wise to the ground:

1. To create knowledge in a spirit of openness to the world, integrating newperspectives

2. To think and act in a forward looking manner

3. To acquire knowledge and act in an interdisciplinarymanner

4. To be able to plan and act in cooperation with others

5. To be able to participate in decision-making processes

6. To be able to motivate others to become active

7. To be able to reflect upon one’s own principles and those of others

8. To be able to plan and act autonomously

9. To be able to show empathy for and solidarity with thedisadvantaged

10. To be able to motivate oneself to become active

Gestaltungs – Competences UNESCO - Education forSustainable Development

The Need for a ParadigmShift

•The step from Environmental Protection (Rio) to Sustainable Development (Johannesburg) impliesa threefold shift of perspective, or paradigm shift:

❧ From sectorial thinking to systems thinking

❧ From deficit/problem to resource

❧ From knowledge to competence

Dr. Ueli Nagel, Zurich University of Teacher Education

I recommend shared frames of references to help positions and issues mentioned as the key characteristica of Elinor Ostroms work for which she received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009: http://benking.de/no-walls.htm http://quergeist.net/Peace-Laueats-Climate-Berlin-Oslo-selection.pdf

How about that for a beginning?Eleanor Ostrom, Economy and Political Sciences, Nobel Prize Lecture, Dec, 8., 2009

More:Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action Ostrom, Elinor , Cambridge

University Press, 1990Understanding Institutional DiversityOstrom, Elinor , Princeton, Princeton University Press. 2005.Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to PracticeOstrom, Elinor and Hess,

Charlotte, Editors, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2006

Breaking Down New Walls10th Annual Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Berlin, November, 9-11 2009

• multi-perspective• multi-positional and multi-centric• mix of scales• nested• meta-data analysis research included• diversity of rules and systems• coping with dilemmas• multi-level

• not chaotic – but complex• common pool resources and sets• common analytical tools and language• common and diverse regimes

across scales• communication and agent-based models• clarifying concepts, trust and reputation•….

Below is a list of projects and literature in chronological order –For more details I recommend to start with my WIKIPEDIA user profile, even when not updated:

User:Benking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaHeiner Benking (born December 8, 1951) is a map and model maker, technician and engineer, planner, facilitator, and futurist, who studying geophysics, ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Benking

Please see also the time-line of my expertise around dialog, deliberation, virtual conferencing, and peacemaking: Virtual Conferencing &E-Learning, E-Governance, E-Participationhttp://benking.de/culture/E-conferencing-expertise.pdf

and my powerpoint presentations http://benking.de/powerpoint-presentations.pdf over the years provide a more structured but not so focussed view on cultural and biological diversity, “ecologcal sustainability”, and dialog, design, and deliberation formats.

Presently, after the Copenhagen COP 15 “pitch” with SURVIVAL ACADEMY and CopenVeganhelping and jointly organizing with: http://www.earthfocus.org/ http://www.earthfocusfoundation.org/

this event:

http://www.ceptualinstitute

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