Futures of a Complex World https://futuresconference2017.wordpress.com
Session Futures of Education, Art and Cultural Studies, Turku Tue 13 June 10:45- 12:00
https://futuresconference2017.wordpress.com/presentations/presentations-from-session-5/
FUTURES of learning and negotiation, policy-making,
and awareness/consciousness
Heiner Benking, journalist/futurist/activist/tutor
Member of the Advisory Board of the European Citizen Sciences Association (ECSA)
Tutor, Future Worlds Center (FWC), Re-Inventing Democracy project, UN-Democracy Fund (UNDEF)
Academic Board member of the International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics
The paper / presentation explores the fate of concrete solutions to introduce a combination of Solution Spaces in times of exploding Problem Spaces.
Innovative presentation and conceptualization methods were introduced at the ‘Communication Camp’ organized at the WFSF conference in Turku in 1993 and covered in the newsletter ‘Knowledge Spiral’ of the Youth and in the Finish weekly „HELSINGIN SANOMAT“.
These new communication methods have since been widely used and therefore we can now reflect on their successes, challenges, and possibilities for further use.
The key concepts included:
a) Open-Forum/Open-Space: a ‘Magic Roundtable’ conversation method which has led to online dialogues as well as ‘live encounters’, to encourage empathy in communication, as well as multi-track diplomacy and peacemaking efforts for community building.
b) Cognitive Panorama: Immersive spaces, externally oriented workspaces of the mind for spacial Erörterungen (deliberations and encounters) for an extra shared overview.
The session will revisit the 10 theses from 24 years ago: “our view of life is too flat”, will try to expand the themes, introduces “Out of the Box thinking and Paradigm-mapping” seminars, and critically review developments, looking back and forward.
We will discuss democracy, education, the future of the media, as well as the need to revisit the intersection of systems and models, imagination and shared augmented virtual realities, complexity and perplexity, signs and senses, concepts/signs and percepts/senses, ethics and policy-making.
TURKU 2017: www.futuresconference.fi/2017
TURKU 1993: (WFSF) benking.de/education.htm
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Traveling from New York to Mexico, I have decided to execute the project in a primordial beauty in the cultivated jungle paradise. Photographs were taken on the 8th of August 2021 at the exhibition at the MoMA NYC and projected on a couple of locations at Tulum, Mexico in October 2021. The event was also filmed with GoPro camera. It was therapy for me, as I am hoping the entire project can have a therapeutic influence on the bruised collective soul and mind.
Progressing the research expanded to comprehension of laws of the universe and into contextual landscaping, cognitive modeling, and intelligent environment(s). In a tête-à-tête with a universe, my input was Cézanne’s artwork and in return, I got answers in a form of puzzles, yet to be cracked.
The true power of the project is in unlocking the potential of the environment by relinquishing or letting go of the role of creator, producer, and viewer. I have sensitized the environment to be able to activate its self-producing force and intelligence. While in the first research I have created a system that is implosive by the nature, constantly generating systems without a recollection of the previous one; in this one, I have emptied the referent point/space to activate the environment yielding on the superposition property of the system to be able to unlock the essence, to reach the energy-momentum and tap into cosmic reason.
The idea is also to dip the research into the NFT art world to gain an extra perspective of art in blockchain technology and to test its reception on alternate realities.
YouTube channel Contextual Landscaping https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBnuw3Mz1n0j5FFGh-6cWwQ
Learn how virtual reality, brain-based technologies and the language of arts can be used to support transformative experiences, that is, emotional experiences that promote deep personal change.
The story begins with the escape of the apocalyptic reality, into the mind of a genius of the brush and stroke. Being an ambitious and busy mind after the Cézanne Drawing exhibition at the MoMA NYC I was compelled to apply acquired energy into compelling research. Although my mind was still in a noisy state I had a couple of thoughts on revisiting and reviving my old research from 2006/07. The main ambition was to make a significant imprint of earthshattering beauty into a collective conscience.
Traveling from New York to Mexico, I have decided to execute the project in a primordial beauty in the cultivated jungle paradise. Photographs were taken on the 8th of August 2021 at the exhibition at the MoMA NYC and projected on a couple of locations at Tulum, Mexico in October 2021. The event was also filmed with GoPro camera. It was therapy for me, as I am hoping the entire project can have a therapeutic influence on the bruised collective soul and mind.
Progressing the research expanded to comprehension of laws of the universe and into contextual landscaping, cognitive modeling, and intelligent environment(s). In a tête-à-tête with a universe, my input was Cézanne’s artwork and in return, I got answers in a form of puzzles, yet to be cracked.
The true power of the project is in unlocking the potential of the environment by relinquishing or letting go of the role of creator, producer, and viewer. I have sensitized the environment to be able to activate its self-producing force and intelligence. While in the first research I have created a system that is implosive by the nature, constantly generating systems without a recollection of the previous one; in this one, I have emptied the referent point/space to activate the environment yielding on the superposition property of the system to be able to unlock the essence, to reach the energy-momentum and tap into cosmic reason.
The idea is also to dip the research into the NFT art world to gain an extra perspective of art in blockchain technology and to test its reception on alternate realities.
YouTube channel Contextual Landscaping https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBnuw3Mz1n0j5FFGh-6cWwQ
Learn how virtual reality, brain-based technologies and the language of arts can be used to support transformative experiences, that is, emotional experiences that promote deep personal change.
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meaning-making; deeper levels of learning; and dynamic interaction elicited within visual approaches to the curriculum.
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2007-2017
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meaningful and relevant chunks.
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to be a part of a group by using a taxonomy in three stages. Even though the theory is based on
socialization amongst minors, the adult human uses Auto socialization to navigate everyday life in all its
aspects of interaction, including communications, collaborations through online platforms. By focusing on
the Auto socialization aspect in an online context, it is possible to explain why online platforms e.g.
Facebook, World of Warcraft are so successful in maintaining and increasing the numbers of stabile
audience and why other platforms, offering learning on a massive scale, (MOOC) facing dropout rates in
the high 80 -90’s[3][4][5].
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Auto socialization Theory[1][2]is a socialization theory, introduced by Swedish Social Psychology Professor Emeritus Lars Dencik, Roskilde University Center (RUC) on how humans socialize, attempting to be a part of a group by using a taxonomy in three stages. Even though the theory is based on
socialization amongst minors, the adult human uses Auto socialization to navigate everyday life in all its aspects of interaction, including communications, collaborations through online platforms. By focusing on the Auto socialization aspect in an online context, it is possible to explain why online platforms e.g. Facebook, World of Warcraft are so successful in maintaining and increasing the numbers of stabile
audience and why other platforms, offering learning on a massive scale, (MOOC) facing dropout rates in the high 80 -90’s[3][4][5].
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Behaviorism, Cognitivism, Constructivism and other growing theories such as Actor-Network and Connectivism are circulating in the educational field. For each, there are allies who stand behind research evidence and consistency of observation. Meantime, those existing theories dominate the field until the background is changed or new concrete evidence proves their insufficiencies. Connectivists claim that the background or the general climate has recently changed: a new generation of researchers, connectivists propose a new way of conceiving knowledge. According to them, knowledge is a network and learning is a process of exploring this network. Other researchers find this notion either not clear or not new and probably, with no effect in the education field. This paper addresses a foggy understanding of knowledge defined as a network and the lack of resources talking about this topic. Therefore, it tries to clarify what it means to define knowledge as a network and in what way it can affect teaching and learning.
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This document reviews the Pervasive Experience project. In this project the driving assumption is that increasingly pervasive, networked technologies are impacting our lives. The research question is: How is Pervasive Computing changing you?
Draft notes for keynote to The Image conference, UCLA and Common Ground, 2 December 2010. Final version will be submitted to http://ontheimage.com/journal/
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The presentation introduces to the relationship between complexity theory principles and projects. A link to complexity theory is fundamental to understand some conditions which can lead more projects to success. This relationship is further exploited in the book "Projects and Complexity", http://www.projectsandcomplexity.org
This presentation includes a brief introduction to theory, strategies, and examples of visualization and visual
pedagogies that promote collaborative learning, followed by conversation and activities designed to illustrate the
meaning-making; deeper levels of learning; and dynamic interaction elicited within visual approaches to the curriculum.
Presented at the Sloan-C 14th Annual International Conference on Online Learning
November 7th, 2008
Overview of Presentations in the Field of Philosophy and ScienceAlfred Driessen
Presentations in the field of science and philosophy
Alfred Driessen
2007-2017
This document gives an overview of his presentations with hyperlinks to slideshare, where the presentations can be viewed and the pdf-files can be downloaded.
Designing the Future Perfect: Developing a temporal understanding of the int...Niamh O Riordan
According to Barbara Adam, “time is such an obvious factor in social science that it is almost invisible”. Indeed, organisational researchers have relied upon taken-for-granted assumptions about the nature of time and have built theories that are frequently silent about the temporal nature of our being in the world. This paper addresses two key questions about time: (i) which formulation(s) of time are most useful in our research, and (ii) how might we use such formulations to build better theory? In addressing the first question, two main formulations of time are examined. The first is frequently associated with research in the natural sciences and relates time to the sense of passing time expressed in successive readings of the clock. The second is typically associated with research in the social sciences and relates time to the experience of purposive, intentional, goal-directed behaviour. In order to build better theory, organisational scholars are encouraged to identify and classify the formulations of time that underpin their research, to evaluate the fit between those temporal assumptions and the goals of their research, and to investigate the extent to theories that are based on different assumptions about time can be combined or integrated.
A Physics Of Ideas - Measuring the Physical Properties of MemesUri Levanon
One of the main obstacles to productivity today is the
growing problem of information overload. Information
overload results because we lack effective tools for
automatically organizing information collections into
meaningful and relevant chunks.
By Nova Spivack
a ChangeThis Manifesto
A CASE STUDY ON AUTO SOCIALIZATION IN ONLINE PLATFORMSIJMIT JOURNAL
Auto socialization Theory[1][2]is a socialization theory, introduced by Swedish Social Psychology
Professor Emeritus Lars Dencik, Roskilde University Center (RUC) on how humans socialize, attempting
to be a part of a group by using a taxonomy in three stages. Even though the theory is based on
socialization amongst minors, the adult human uses Auto socialization to navigate everyday life in all its
aspects of interaction, including communications, collaborations through online platforms. By focusing on
the Auto socialization aspect in an online context, it is possible to explain why online platforms e.g.
Facebook, World of Warcraft are so successful in maintaining and increasing the numbers of stabile
audience and why other platforms, offering learning on a massive scale, (MOOC) facing dropout rates in
the high 80 -90’s[3][4][5].
A case study on autho socialization in online platformsIJMIT JOURNAL
Auto socialization Theory[1][2]is a socialization theory, introduced by Swedish Social Psychology Professor Emeritus Lars Dencik, Roskilde University Center (RUC) on how humans socialize, attempting to be a part of a group by using a taxonomy in three stages. Even though the theory is based on
socialization amongst minors, the adult human uses Auto socialization to navigate everyday life in all its aspects of interaction, including communications, collaborations through online platforms. By focusing on the Auto socialization aspect in an online context, it is possible to explain why online platforms e.g. Facebook, World of Warcraft are so successful in maintaining and increasing the numbers of stabile
audience and why other platforms, offering learning on a massive scale, (MOOC) facing dropout rates in the high 80 -90’s[3][4][5].
Understanding knowledge network, learning and connectivismAlaa Al Dahdouh
Behaviorism, Cognitivism, Constructivism and other growing theories such as Actor-Network and Connectivism are circulating in the educational field. For each, there are allies who stand behind research evidence and consistency of observation. Meantime, those existing theories dominate the field until the background is changed or new concrete evidence proves their insufficiencies. Connectivists claim that the background or the general climate has recently changed: a new generation of researchers, connectivists propose a new way of conceiving knowledge. According to them, knowledge is a network and learning is a process of exploring this network. Other researchers find this notion either not clear or not new and probably, with no effect in the education field. This paper addresses a foggy understanding of knowledge defined as a network and the lack of resources talking about this topic. Therefore, it tries to clarify what it means to define knowledge as a network and in what way it can affect teaching and learning.
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Contribution to EARTH ODYSSEY- DRAFT
based on the ANNA_LINDH_FOUNDATON presentation earlier that week. for more see: https://earthodyssey.org/ and heiner2020.earth and 4futures.org
THIS FILE will be updated in a few weeks !!
Global change 20-years_post_rio-12years-Welt_im_Wandel-AusstelllungHeiner Benking
Dies sind die beiden Poster die ich zu 20 Jahre Umweltämter mit Teilen der Ausstellung gezeigt habe:
http://benking.de/futures/Poster-Global-Change-1990.pdf
http://benking.de/Global-Change/system-earth-posters.html
weiteres findet sich in den Links auf diesen Seiten:
http://benking.de/Global-Change/global-change-seiters-chancellery-may1990.html
benking.de/Global-Change/
see also the 20th Anniversary of the Global Change exhibition. http://benking.de/futures/Poster-Global-Change-1990.pdf
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GROUP INTERN - slides as promised:Heiner “Grasping, Groping, and Grokking Heiner” - a collective inquiry and teaser https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kMXzJ1mm7W2wO8iWdN43vWL6P0sa0nlIPdnZ6-PGL4s/edit?usp=sharing more about the FB group GCC and the "announcement" here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/GlobalChallengesCollaboration/GlobalChallengesCollaboration/ and here the session:
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The LAST BELL – DOORS CLOSED are at 10 PM, CET sharp !!
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So tonight we hope to learn more of Heiner Benking and how his inner universe has developed over the years.
Tonight 9:45 PM CET we will check audio/video in Doug’s ZOOM chamber. He is doing the intro and moderation, Harry scribbles with/for us, Heiner is on alert/ready to jump-in..
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http://benking.de/gebser2001.html
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http://www.osi-genevaforum.org/United-Nations-December-2016-Participatory-Research-Citizen-Sciences-and-Fab#outil_sommaire_4
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Reflections and Learnings about Systems, Models, Frames, Signs, Media, Representations (like Scaffoldings), Boundaries, Scales, Languages and Mindsets ….
http://weturn.org/BENKING-Inquiry-Herrenhausen.pdf
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EDUCAMP & OER2 & DIGITAL TURN & ELIG
check http://hochschulforumdigitalisierung.de Sept. 4-11
EduCamp Digital Turn, Wake-up call: What is the next "Turn" ? http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v396/__show_article/_a000396-000385.htm
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see also: http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v396/__show_article/_a000396-000384.htm
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1. Futures of a Complex World
12–13 June 2017, Turku, Finland
www.futuresconference.fi/2017
Session Futures of Education, Art and Cultural Studies Session V, Tue 13 June 10:45- 12:00
FUTURES of learning and negotiation,
policy-making, and
awareness/consciousness
Heiner Benking
Keyword:
Democracy, Education, the Future of Models, Systems, Media, Signs and Senses
• Check: benking.de/futures
2. SITUATION ROOM and SPACES
WAR and PEACE ROOMS
As we lost our Dircection
We doubled our Efforts
SDGs
CAPTAIN CHART COMPASS
PILOT or CAPTAIN ?
6. Contributions and Challenges for Peace and Development
for Participatory Research, Citizen Sciences and Fab Labs
Pia Viviani
deputy director citizen science, Foundation Science et Cité
Representative of Tous Scientifiques
Speaker as representative of ECSA for OSI 2016 in Geneva
Heiner Benking
Independent Journalist and Facilitator, ECSA Advisory Board Member
ECSA Technology and Policy Board Member
Delegate of OSI as member to ECSA
in the founding boards of Open-Forum, Youth-Leader, Positive-Nett-Works, CGI, …
Advisory Board of ECOSOC - IHTEC – and member of the UN-ECOSOC Global Commons Alliance
www.osi-genevaforum.org/United-Nations-December-2016-Participatory-Research-Citizen-Sciences-and-Fab.html
weturn.org/OSI-UN-Geneva-2016/PIA-HEINER--ECSA-161214_CS_OSI-2016-12.pdf
7.
8. XIII World Conference of World Futures Studies Federation,
COHERENCE AND CHAOS IN OUR UNCOMMON FUTURES
- Visions, Means, Actions - Turku, Finland August 3-27, 1993
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
12 Theses
Thesis 1 Framework
Thesis 2 Separate vs Whole
Thesis 3 Holo-experience
Thesis 4 Isolation
Thesis 5 Re-binding
Thesis 6 Nomenclature
Thesis 7 Visual Immediacy
Thesis 8 Imagery & Place
Thesis 9 Experience of Scales
Thesis 10 Exploring Eco-Scaling
Thesis 11 Natur-Raum-Zeit
Thesis 12 Dialogue of "Whole"
benking.de/education.htm
10. .
GLOBAL LEARN DAY
WELCOME TO EUROPE
Finding distance and perspective
or feeling lost in the “woods” and afraid of “walls”?
11.
12. Documents relating to Polarization, Dilemmas and Duality, by Anthony Judge
http://www.un-intelligible.org/projects/transfor/a11aa.php 1972 http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs00s/globgov.php#exc 2008
13. XIII World Conference of World Futures Studies Federation, WFSF 1993
COHERENCE AND CHAOS IN OUR UNCOMMON FUTURES
V i s i o n s, M e a n s, A c t i o n s
Poster and Sessions and Workshops - Turku, Finland, August 23-27, 1993
12 Theses about new forms of education for Positive Futures: Our View of the World is too Flat Heiner Benking
Thesis 1: A framework is required to allow the individual to find his place in the universe and develop an overall perspective. It is also necessary to relate information in repositories with
observations about the world and with individual viewpoints. Some sense of harmony will result when one comes to understand the global perspective and realises that each individual is an
integral part of the whole, just as each brick is an integral part of the wall. This realisation will help to combat feelings of apathy and futility. It is important that this concept models only the
physical universe, and thus leaves open the possibility of influence by spiritual forces.
Thesis 2: Children grow up in a world of separated fields, and are encouraged through intense competition to specialise at an early age. The increasing demand for holistic and integrated
approaches to system- and process-oriented concepts is contradicted by efforts to limit the natural exploratory tendencies of children. Once these tendencies are suppressed, it is often not
possible to counteract a transformation which has resulted in an analytic being devoid of spirituality and creativity.
Thesis 3: Ecology is not presented as a multi-disciplinary field because only sector-oriented and causal thinking, as opposed to system-oriented thinking, are taught. Such a multi-
disciplinary perspective can thus only be obtained through broad practical and physical experience. A conceptual image, which is more than just a mental framework and an associated
paradigm, is therefore difficult to achieve.
Thesis 4: Individuals feel helpless and powerless because they don't perceive their contribution or their relationship to the world as a whole. The result is apathy and abdication of
responsibility based on the lack of a perception that action or inaction on the part of the individual will have an impact on the overall system.
Thesis 5: Only through localisation of effect in space and time is a feeling of deep knowledge created. Reference to the environment or neighbourhood are essential to developing practical
approaches to problems and to the optimisation of learning.
Thesis 6: There is a necessity to develop a new network nomenclature, which can additionally contain imagery of various dimensions and metaphors. Such catalytic "concept-language"
simplifies and speeds communication and allows mediation of complex decision scenarios. The resulting unified "terminology/"imageology"/"metaphorology" allows multi-dimensional thought
and helps to identify cultural differences in expression and understanding. The present use of language does not allow distinct terminology, only relative terms, which require pictures and
metaphors to make the point, especially in multi-dimensional domains.
Thesis 7: Since children appreciate the use of simple pictures and stories to explain complex relations, this form of communication should be seriously considered. Children seem to think
visually, but this technique is underexploited and not completely understood. That catalytic powers of thinking and speaking in pictures are suppressed is readily seen in comparing cultural
differences in memorisation.
Thesis 8: The process self-discovery and the development of self-esteem are strongly related to the concepts of home and intimacy. If the boundaries of thought and perception are
extended, for example from village to country to planet, adequate concepts for thoughts are required for improved imagination, mapping, and living according to such expanded perceptions.
Imagery which supports this expanded context, the reference to details, and related knowledge and experience creates advanced creativity and catalytic possibilities, and thus allows for deeper
insight.
Thesis 9: One major problem is the lack of experience with and feeling for spatial and time scales. They must be experienced outside of the conventional range of individual observation,
and have direct implications for relationships with and management of natural resources. Without a perception of scales and dimension, there is no space for responsibility and ethics.
Thesis 10: Imagination and creativity are wasted if an early "fun and games'' approach to obtaining a capability for making mental transitions between structures, subjects, scales, and
relationships is not taken. The word intuition in the Greek and Roman sense included inspiration in a parallel mode: seeing the overall picture at a single glance, followed by perusal of the
details. The trick is to learn to oscillate between these forms of mental exercise and thereby foster ingenuity.
The definition of ecology as "interaction along and across hierarchical scales" requires techniques such as zooming, panning, overlaying, system dynamics oriented functional linking. The use
of imagery, concepts, and metaphors to trigger mental traversal of these scales is crucial. These techniques utilise creative and analytical capabilities in parallel, and therefore result in dramatic
increases in quality and speed of response.
Thesis 11: If we can show the various phenomena of nature in a single framework, we will have a universal system for perceiving nature in time and space (Natur-Raum-Zeit).
Understanding the interaction and communication between individual processes, and the unique position and importance of each contribution, a new sense of responsibility and community-
oriented thinking may develop.
Thesis 12: A new dialogue with nature requires the concept of a web forming the whole (llya Prigogine). With hierarchical self-similar structure (as in the Chinese Feng-Shui concept), a new
cosmopolitical and universal thinking may develop. This requires visualisation and abstract and consistent images of unified depth, which assist in bridging dimensions. If children can be
enticed by such simple pictorial content, and take pleasure in exploring these concepts, a first step has been made. Detail to any desired depth may be added later using electronic referencing
and documentation aids.
16. Normal or Paradigmatic Science as "Puzzle-Solving"
According to Kuhn, once a paradigm
has been accepted by a scientific
community, subsequent research
consists of applying the shared
methods of the disciplinary matrix to
solve the types of problems defined
by the exemplar. Since the type of
solution that must be found is well
defined and the paradigm
"guarantees" that such a solution
exists (though the precise nature of
the solution and the path that will get
you to a solution is often not known in
advance),
Kuhn characterizes
scientific research during
normal or paradigmatic
science as
"puzzle-solving“.
17. Crisis of
Order, Orientation, Meaning,...
Die Neuen Medien -
Kommunikative Gesellschaft ?
Studium generale, Humboldt - Universität zu Berlin 17.1. 2000
Watch your Symbols,
Icons, Words, &
Metaphors, Worlds,...
a prison
a varieté
a show
a labyrinth
a bomb
a sweet pie
the final flood of post-
modern Cyber Culture ?
18. Premier forum des solutions pour développement des musées et expositiones
Journée Access Multimedia 17. - 18. Novembre 1998 - Cité des Sciences et de l‘Industrie
No covenant in modern times
Many Portals - but no „Common House“
Source: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/macroscope
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/macroscope/
„Magnetic Portals“: Information Strategy Magazine, July/August 1998
20. A general diagram of mankinds’s place in the global ecosystem
using a VENN diagram subdivided as proposed by E. EDWARDS (1989)
A: Atmosphere, G: Geosphere H: Hydrosphere E: Energy
The intersections represent specific fields of inquiry. EH is for example hydrodynamics. Any subset can be
subdivided according to more particular necessity (A…A1
, A2
… An
) Mankind and smaller human groups
interact with any environmental subset. EHAG represents the most global dynamic and integrated
ecosystem. Different and much more complex representations are possible as for example DOXIADIS’
ekistics or BENKING’s eco-cube.
21. KnowMap
Vol. 1, No. 5,
August 2001
Spacial versus Spatial:
Part I - Setting Common Frames of Reference
Part II - Spacial Knowledge Maps and Knowledge Models
Part III- Panoramic Thinking and End of This Journey
Heiner Benking
http://newciv.org/cob/members/benking/knowmap.html
22. KnowMap
Vol. 1, No. 5, August 2001
People feel fine with icons (images) and symbols, but when Peirce in his sign
theory introduced something in-between what he called index they are
somehow destabilized and frightened - not able to believe in the either - or
world of words or metaphoric pictures.
Just for the exercise we want to test Peirce's index here by considering his
third category a spacial map or model. This would create room for
communication and sensations when linking and merging of realities and
bridge the media breaks. This in-betweening is further explored in …
from chapter: Profound Ignorance and In-Between
Spacial versus Spatial – Part III :
Panoramic Thinking and End of This Journey
23. Bewerbung PNW: Farah Lenser – Heiner
Koordinations- und Service- Stelle
Heinrich Böll Foundation, March 2012
24. Reale und Virtuelle Projekte als
Kulturkreative
Salons – Aktionen – Performances – Medien
• Künstlern
• Soziale und kulturelle Entrepreneure
• Kinder und Jugendliche
• politisch-soziale Aktivisten und Akteure der Bürgergesellschaft
Bewerbung PNW: Farah Lenser – Heiner Benking
Koordinations- und Service- Stelle
25. „ Partizipative Dialogverfahren
„ Magic Roundtable, Open-Space, Salon-Design
„ Demokratie neu erfinden
„ Mediations- und Friedensprojekte
„ Magic Roundtable – Begegnungen auf Augenhöhe
„ Vielfalt der Modelle – Impuls und Austausch
„ Perspektivenwechsel – Hören Fühlen Denken Handeln
„ Eine Welt für Alle – Talk and Communication
Open – Forum
Formatlabor - Wie kommt das Neue in die Welt
26. Re-inventing Democracy with generative and disciplined
transdisciplinary – intergenerational – intercultural
Dialogues and Conversations
http://open-forum.de/open-space-open-forum.html
http://www.benking.de/open-forum/events/NeuesEuropa.html
http://sunsite.utk.edu/FINS/loversofdemocracy
http://open-forum.de/Dialogue_and_DecisionCulture.html
27.
28.
29.
30.
31.
32. Panel 1: Learning about cybersystemic governance
from Limits to Growth.
Speakers: Alexander Christakis and Heiner Benking.
Response by Robert Hoffman
Input by Heiner Benking:
Revisiting, Reframing and Rescaling an
embodied „Problematique“ and Covenant.
Reflections and Learnings about Systems, Models, Frames, Signs, Media,
Representations (like Scaffoldings), Boundaries, Scales, Languages and Mindsets ….
“GOVERNING THE ANTHROPOCENE: CYBER-SYSTEMIC POSSIBILITIES?”
HERRENHAUSEN PALACE, HANNOVER GERMANY. 30TH - 31ST JULY 2015 - Programme for a Systemic Inquiry
33. Percepts without Concepts are blind,
Concepts without Percepts are empty.
Words without Actions are futile,
Values without Contexts are meaningless.
(free after Leibniz, Kant, Margeaux)
“GOVERNING THE ANTHROPOCENE: CYBER-SYSTEMIC POSSIBILITIES?”
HERRENHAUSEN PALACE, HANNOVER GERMANY. 30TH - 31ST JULY 2015 - Programme for a Systemic Inquiry
35. [more]: New Renaissance 3, UN COP15 – UNFCCC side events Copenhagen 2009,
Continuously updated this Blog: www.quergeist.info
Breaking Down New Walls
10th 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 ?
Intervention from the floor and interview after the event by/with Heiner Benking at:
36. How about that for a beginning?
Elinor 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, 1990
Understanding Institutional Diversity Ostrom, Elinor, Princeton,
Princeton University Press. 2005.
Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to
Practice Ostrom, Elinor and Hess, Charlotte, Editors, The MIT Press,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2006
• 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
•….
Breaking Down New Walls
10th Annual Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Berlin, November, 9-11 2009
Intervention from the floor and interview after the event by/with Heiner Benking at:
37. Heiner Benking: Alte und Neue Räume, Ordnungen
und Modelle für Orientierungen und Vereinbarungen
UNESCO Conference: The Unifying Aspects of Cultures, Vienna 2003
From Cusanus and Peirce, to Warburg ...
and further down the road less travelled
„Models“ „Signs“ Library „levels“ „Cognitive Panorama“
N. v. Kues
(Cusanus) C.S.Peirce A. Warburg work in progress
ANALOGON INDEX ORIENTATION CONTEXTS
SYMBOLON SYMBOL WORDS SUBJECTS
ICON ICON IMAGE OBJECTS
ACTION Systematic, communicative
ETHICS & PRAGMATICS
Jonas / Stachowiak
38. The Need for a Paradigm Shift
• The step from Environmental Protection (Rio) to
Sustainable Development (Johannesburg) implies
a 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
39.
40. Quest for
Structured
Response tp
Growing World-
wide
Complexities and
Uncertainties
1970
A PROPOSAL
The Club of Rome - The Predicament of Mankind
Early beginnings 1968- 1970
41. http://21stcenturyagora.org http://www.globalagoras.org/
Co-Laboratories of Democracy
How Co-Laboratories
Of Democracy Work
Problematic Situation
Discover root causes;
Adopt consensual action plans:
Develop teams dedicated to
implementing those plans; and
Generate lasting bonds of respect,
trust, and cooperation.
42. See: Millennium Project
Global Agora Structured Dialogic Design
March-July 2011 exercise:
STRATEGIC ARTICULATION OF ACTIONS
TO COPE
WITH THE HUGE CHALLENGES
OF OUR WORLD TODAY
A Platform for Reflection
Reynaldo Treviño Cisneros and
Bethania Arango Hisijara
Aguascalientes, México, April 2011
In: LA TRAMA
ESTRATEGAR PARA ENFRENTAR
LOS RETOS DEL MILENIO
Aguascalientes, México
Madrid, España, Julio 1, 2, 3 de 2011
43. Panel 1: Learning about cybersystemic governance
from Limits to Growth.
Speakers: Alexander Christakis and Heiner Benking.
Response by Robert Hoffman
Input by Heiner Benking:
Revisiting, Reframing and Rescaling an
embodied „Problematique“ and Covenant.
Reflections and Learnings about Systems, Models, Frames, Signs, Media,
Representations (like Scaffoldings), Boundaries, Scales, Languages and Mindsets ….
“GOVERNING THE ANTHROPOCENE: CYBER-SYSTEMIC POSSIBILITIES?”
HERRENHAUSEN PALACE, HANNOVER GERMANY. 30TH - 31ST JULY 2015 - Programme for a Systemic Inquiry
44. Percepts without Concepts are blind,
Concepts without Percepts are empty.
Words without Actions are futile,
Values without Contexts are meaningless.
(free after Leibniz, Kant, Margeaux)
“GOVERNING THE ANTHROPOCENE: CYBER-SYSTEMIC POSSIBILITIES?”
HERRENHAUSEN PALACE, HANNOVER GERMANY. 30TH - 31ST JULY 2015 - Programme for a Systemic Inquiry
45. Kurt Hanks, OUT OF THE BOX THINKING
see: Creating a Creating a Driving
Creating a Driving Vision (PDF)
and GettingGetting out of THE BOX
49. Thinking/Reasoning learning room in Enlightenment Pedagogics
DENK-LEHRRAUM der Aufklärungspädagogik !
EcologicalEcological Ecological
TheologyEcological Theology and
EnvironmentalEnvironmental Environmental
Ethics
50. The ICC is in the MMI Library
a basis for teaching wholeness and connectedness -
what we know and how little we know !
KNOW-MAPS FOR KIDS
patterns can be meanings that connect
GLOBAL LEARN DAY
WELCOME TO EUROPE
A Universal Ordering System for Disciplines and Phenomena
ICC - Information Coding Classification I. Dahlberg
Matrix columns Matrix levels
9 Culture Distribution and Synthesis )
8 Science & Information Application and Determination
7 Economic & Technology Technology and Production
6 Socio Institution or Content
5 Human Persons or Content
4 Bio Property Attribute
3 Cosmo & Geo Activity, Process
2 Energy & Matter Objects, Components
1 Form & Structure Theories, Principles
0 Subject Areas General Form Concepts
51. GLOBAL LEARN DAY
WELCOME TO EUROPE
• real spaces
perceptual
__________________________________
• concept spaces
conceptual
http://www.meta-self.com
http://ceptualinstitute/genre/
benking/borderland.htm
Why not think the thing deep,
take space real and serious,
enjoy and play in spaces,
make spaces places which
can help making sense,
and ease understanding ?
Sharing & bridging realities
52. LINK TO GLOBAL CHANGE EXHIBITION
Global Sharing and Coping
GLOBAL CHANGE 1990-99
53. GLOBAL SHARING & CARING
Ecological thinking is:
Thinking and understanding
“inter” and “trans” or
“Interaction along and across
hierarchical scales
in a concrete and sharable way”
54. “GOVERNING THE ANTHROPOCENE: CYBER-SYSTEMIC POSSIBILITIES?”
HERRENHAUSEN PALACE, HANNOVER GERMANY. 30TH - 31ST JULY 2015 - Programme for a Systemic Inquiry
55.
56.
57. EcologicalEcological Ecological
TheologyEcological Theology and
EnvironmentalEnvironmental Environmental
Ethics
Otto Otto SchärliOtto Schärli drawing
with me the flow of information across
order schemas and how meaning
connects across sign and media
systems and what this could mean for
our communication and shared
awareness/consciousness.
58. Global Sharing and Coping
Connecting Worlds, Scales, Media, & Forms/Structures
59. Multimedia
Where do we go from here ?
Using Maps and Models,
SuperSigns and SuperStructures
Heiner Benking
International CODATA Symposium on Multimedia in Science and Technology - MIST 2005 -
European Academy, Berlin, Germany September 19-20, 2005
International ICSU-CODATA Symposium Berlin, ICSU - International Council of Scientific Unions,
CODATA- Committee on Data for Science and Technology
60. Towards a New Renaissance 3
Harmonising Spirituality, Nature and Health
EMBODYING, HARMONIZING and SHARING
OLD AND NEW SPACES & TIMES
Sharing Commons in an Embodied Covenant [more]
Bringing together cultural expressions, sign systems,
perspectives and positionalities
Heiner Benking
Secretary Tagore-Einstein Council, Council of Global Issues,
Originator Open-Forum, PNW-Positive News Youth Views – Youth-Leader
61. Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research
Altenberg Workshops 1996/97 30. January 1997, Austria,
Worldview Compositions and Cognitive Spaces
- a necessary evolutionary step by Heiner Benking
Guilford, J. P., The Nature of Human Intelligence,
New York: McGraw Hill, 1967.
Structure of Intellect. [175] Cf. the work of Heiner
Benking.
To be publihed in 9. Augmented knowledge in the
book by Kim Veltman:
Augmented Books, Knowledge, and Culture
http://www.isoc.org/inet2000/cdproceedings/
6d/6d_1.htm
These quests to master new knowledge owe much to systems theory, "chaos theory" (a seemingly
contradictory combination of terms), complexity, [77] and developments in neural networks, whereby
systematic treatments of apparently random forms bring unexpected patterns of order.
What makes these trends the more significant is that thinkers concerned with the systematization of
intellect, such as Guilford, have intuitively sought to link units, classes, relations, systems, etc. with
products and operations (figure 12). Cf. the work of Heiner Benking.
62. Whoever imagines mental
deep permeable barriers
which actually do not exist
and then thinks them away,
has understood the world.
As space is entrapped
in geometry's network of lines,
thought is caught in its (own) inherent laws.
Maps make the world comprehensible to us;
we are still waiting for
the star-maps of the spirit.
In the same way than ambling through fields
we risk getting lost,
the spirit negotiates its terrain.
Friedrich Rückert,
Wisdom of the Brahmins a didactic poem,
Charles T. Brooks in 1882
* this is a critical translation issue:
WALLS & BOUNDARIES are „man-made“ – have no equivalent in Nature. The term Schranken therfore can be
trasnlated as restraining bounds, or semiphors, barriers & temporary permeable or translucent / transparent
material/strata/membranes/transition zones).
Friedrich Rückert
Die Weisheit des Brahmanen,
ein Lehrgedicht in Bruchstücken
Werke, Band 2, Leipzig und Wien [1897], S.
50-51.
Breaking Down New Walls
10th Annual Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Berlin, November, 9-11 2009
Interview, Panel-Discussion
68. SUMMARY ad.hoc. RECOMMENDATIONS:
* Embody - Immerse - Negotiate - Connect traditional and immersive
and tangible, extensional, augmented, merged & morphed
„Realities“ (phyiscal & conceptual & imaginary models of „reality“)
* Multi-modal Models including/connecting SuperSigns in
Structures and Superstructures and their construction and overlap
* Dialog and Deliberation – Sharing and Gifting –
Multi-track Diplomacy and Peacemaking
* Linking Creativity, Cognition, and Compassion
See also the Turku 1993 12 theses and publication: benking.de/education.htm
Slideshare and YouTube publications - UNDEF re:inventing democracy profile & refs/pubs
69. ABSTRACT TURKU 2017: http://www.futuresconference.fi/2017 TURKU 1993: (WFSF) http://benking.de/education.htm
http://benking.de/EDU-FUTURES-Turku-Kerkrade-abstracts-Heiner_Benking.pdf
Session Futures of Education, Art and Cultural Studies, Tue 13 June 10:45- 12:00
FUTURES of learning and negotiation, policy-making,
and awareness/consciousness
Heiner Benking, journalist/futurist/activist/tutor
Member of the Advisory Board of the European Citizen Sciences Association (ECSA)
Tutor, Future Worlds Center (FWC), Re-Inventing Democracy project, UN-Democracy Fund (UNDEF)
Academic Board member of the International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics
The paper / presentation explores the fate of concrete solutions to introduce a combination of Solution Spaces in times of
exploding Problem Spaces.
Innovative presentation and conceptualization methods were introduced at the ‘Communication Camp’ organized at the WFSF
conference in Turku in 1993 and covered in the newsletter ‘Knowledge Spiral’ of the Youth and in the Finish weekly „HELSINGIN
SANOMAT“.
These new communication methods have since been widely used and therefore we can now reflect on their successes,
challenges, and possibilities for further use.
The key concepts included:
a) Open-Forum/Open-Space: a ‘Magic Roundtable’ conversation method which has led to online dialogues as well as ‘live
encounters’, to encourage empathy in communication, as well as multi-track diplomacy and peacemaking efforts for community
building.
b) Cognitive Panorama: Immersive spaces, externally oriented workspaces of the mind for spacial Erörterungen (deliberations
and encounters) for an extra shared overview.
The session will revisit the 10 theses from 24 years ago: “our view of life is too flat”, will try to expand the themes, introduces “Out
of the Box thinking and Paradigm-mapping” seminars, and critically review developments, looking back and forward.
We will discuss democracy, education, the future of the media, as well as the need to revisit the intersection of systems and
models, imagination and shared augmented virtual realities, complexity and perplexity, signs and senses, concepts/signs and
percepts/senses, ethics and policy-making.
Keywords: Democracy, Education, the Future of Models, Systems, Media, Signs and Senses, Levers, Birds-Eye, Ontology, Orientation, Spacial, Blind-
spotting, Constellations, GLocal