This document introduces a presentation on approaches to dialogue, deliberation, and visualization to promote shared understanding across levels, sectors, languages, and mindsets regarding sustainable futures. Some key points: 1. The presentation will discuss the "Digital Peters" project and CoLaboratory approaches to dialogue design. 2. It will provide examples of these dialogue and deliberation approaches for building capacity, orientation, and actions toward sustainable development. 3. The approaches aim to facilitate shared understanding across differences to support cooperation and decision-making.

1. Introducing:
"A Democratic Approach to Sustainable Futures"
and the "Digital Peters“
Examples of CoLaboratory Dialog Design, Deliberation and Visualization Approaches
for shared Orientation, Understanding, Capacity-Building, and Actions
across Levels, Sectors, Languages, Terminologies, Scales and Mindsets
Heiner Benking
Council on Global Issues, Positive Nett-Works, 21stCentury Agora
Monday 17th October 2011, Institute National Genevois , 1204 Geneva

2. 1. To create knowledge in a spirit of openness to the
world, integrating new perspectives
2. To think and act in a forward looking manner
3. To acquire knowledge and act in an interdisciplinary
manner
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 the
disadvantaged
10. To be able to motivate oneself to become active
Gestaltungs – Competences UNESCO - Education for
Sustainable Development

3. First and not least: THANKS to:
• 21stCenturyAgora
Aleco, Tom, Peter, Ken, Yiannis, Jacky, Farah,
LaDonna, Laura, Kate, Roma, Janet, Gayle,
Paul, Reynaldo, and many others …
• Digital Peters project
Arno Peters, Andreas Kaiser and the Digital
Peters production team: Martin Weinmann, Hans
Rudolf Behrendt, Thomas Burch, …

5. Gestaltungs-Competence 1 & 7
To create knowledge
in a spirit of
openness to the world,
integrating new perspectives
1.
7.
To be able to reflect
upon one’s own principles
and those of others

6. Kurt Hanks, PARADIGM MAPPING
http://hanksconsulting.com/page10.html

7. Kurt Hanks, PARADIGM MAPPING

8. 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.

9. 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

11. or in a nutshell:
MODELS DISCOVERED
vs
MODELS DELIVERED

23. Example 1

24. Example 2

36. • An opportunity and need for systems understanding
• A complex understanding needs to enfold
• Complex meanings emerge through comparison and distinction
• Avoiding the trap of pre-constructed understanding
• Avoiding the traps on only counting what can be counted
• Clustering explicity exposes us to sharing body wisdom
• Understanding body wisdom with reference to system science
• Voting or what initially seems to be highly important
• Marrying body wisdom with system thinking
• Structuring relations among problems into a shared understanding
• Problem solving is spontaneous – sharing knowledge is not
• Problem solving needs to be democratic
• Interpretative structural modelling builds maps of logical frameworks
• The problem of erroneous design trajectories

37. APPLICATION STAGES OF THE RCMTM
SYSTEM
What are the Factors That Influence The Drop-Out Rate For Students
with Disabilities In School
Contributing Factors
Generated by Stakeholders
Complex Situation:
Drop Out Rates
DIAGNOSIS
Classification Of
Contributing Factors
Root Cause
Map

40. Root Cause Mapping
“Suppose School X is able to make progress in addressing:
(Factor - X)
will this help significantly in addressing:
(Factor - Y)
in the context of the reducing drop out rates of students
with disabilities in School X?”
Generic Question:

46. Factor 47: LACK OF
USER FRIENDLINESS
Factor 9: EXISTENCE OF SOCIAL
INEQUALITIES
Factor 10: LOW EDUCATIONAL
LEVEL
Factor 30: INADEQUATE
PUBLIC PROMOTION OF
ITS IMPORTANCE
Level IV
Level III
Level II
Level I
Factor 26: FEAR OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Factor 40:TECHNO-PHOBIA, THE FEAR OF
TECHNOLOGY
Factor 7: ABSENCE
OF SPECIFIC
SERVICES ORIENTED
TO USER NEEDS
Factor 2: LACK OF
INFRASTRUCTURE
Level V
Level VI Factor 78: LACK OF OPEN DESIGN INTERFACES
Factor 24: LACK OF USER PARTICIPATION IN ICT DESIGN
Factor 41: THE TOO BIG POWER OF TECHNOLOGISTS
Factor 48: POOR
INTERFACE DESIGN
Factor 35: INADEQUATE GOVERNMENT
POLICIES ON SERVICES TO THE PUBLIC
Factor 33: WEAKNESS OF REGULATORY
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK
Factor 74:LACK OF
STANDARDIZATION OF
QUALITY ISSUES
Factor 67:SPAM
Factor 72:LACK OF THE NEED TO
DEFINE CITIZENS DIGITAL RIGHTS
Factor 4: LOW LEVEL OF DIGITAL LITERACY
Factor 36: LOW INDIVIDUAL INTEREST
ABOUT THE CONTENT AVAILABLE ON
BROADBAND
Factor 11: HIGH COST
OF SERVICE
Factor 63:
TECHNOLOGICAL
DETERMINISM
Factor 17: THE OBSTACLES FOR THE
NEW EASTERN AND CENTRAL EU
MEMBERS ARE DIFFERENT FROM
THOSE OF THE OLD MEMBERS
Factor 16: SOCIAL
RESISTANCE TO PAY THE
COSTS OF BROADBAND
TECHNOLOGY
Factor 45:MORAL PANIC
REGARDING THE
INTERNET
Factor 39: RESISTANCE TO
LEARN NEW PRACTICES
Factor 58: NON USE AS A
DELIBERATE LIFESTYLE
Factor 1: INADEQUATE DEFINITION
OF UNIVERSAL SERVICE
Factor 32: LACK OF LEGAL
FRAMEWORK ON BROADBAND
ISSUES
Factor 18: LACK OF INTEREST
Factor 82: ETHICS
Factor 29: INABILITY TO PREDICT
BENEFITS FOR INDIVIDUALS
Factor 12: LACK OF DIGITAL
CONTENT IN MOTHER
LANGUAGE
Factor 76: LACK OF
INTEROPERABILITY BETWEEN
SYSTEMS
Factor 57: TELECOM FOCUSING ON
3G, WHEREAS PEOPLE ON WIFI
Factor 52: FEAR OF BEING
WATCHED BY THE BIG EYE
Factor 15: LACK OF
COMPETENCE TOWARDS ICT
Factor 19: FEAR OF INTRUSION
AND RISK OF FALSIFICATION OF
PERSONAL DATA

49. Man knows himself only to the extent that he knows the world;
he becomes aware of himself only within the world,
and aware of the world only within himself.
Every Object, well contemplated,
opens up a new organ of perception within us.
Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
s.a Bateson

50. Collective WisdomCollective Wisdom

51. Modeling and Simulation:
National Research Council
Natl Res Council
National Academy Press
Linking Entertainment
and Defense

53. UN – ECOSOC- AMR 2008:
http://www.quergeist.net/AMR-2008/
http://www.un.org/ecosoc/newfunct/Responses_in_Full-Part_I.pdf
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.
e – DISCUSSION ON ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
"Implementing the internationally
agreed goals and commitments
in regard to sustainable development".

54. http://www.futurict.eu/

55. Watch your metaphors and models !
More: Overclaims and Oversimplifications 1997 & Sharing and Changing Realities: Landscape 1997
GeoEcoDynamics 1988 & Knowmap Spacial vs. Spatial 2001 & Access and Assimilation 1992 and
Geo-Object Coding 1988 (GeoJournal) & Spatial Metaphors 1994 (Benking/Judge) – GEOSCIENCES
exhibition - AWS 1991 & UN YEAR of the Mountains: Bridges for a World Divided 2002
Source:
USGCRP report 2000
Source:
BIOLOG, page 12
Biodiversity and Global Change
www.pt-dlr.de, Nov 2003

56. • [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 ?

57. • 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, 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
Breaking Down New Walls
10th 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
•….

58. “Without adequate understanding of different in
methods and reasoning or patterns of thoughts, we
cannot comprehend conflicts of national policies, past
and present, or pave the way to international
cooperation.”
Karl Pribram, Conflicting Patterns of Thoughts, 1949.

60. DIGITAL PETERS http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=
RRxgWPDkYTA&feature=related
PETERS MAP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=osQN7aSQV9w&feature=related

61. HOW TO LIE WITH MAPS
qkm
1
3
22
30
10
18

62. See: Millennium Project
Global Agora Strutured 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

64. European Commission MEDICI FrameworkEuropean Commission MEDICI Framework 13.- 20. March 2002
Welcome to the Future
There is to our knowledge nothing
similar to the synchronoptic world
history of Arno Peters“
(1952)
"Es gibt unseres Wissens keine
Parallele zu Arno Peters'
Synchronoptischer Weltgeschichte
(1952)
http://www.zweitausendeins.de/Peters/Presse.htm
(2001)
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/buch/4788/1.html http://www.hyperhistory.com
HYPER HISTORY & Reference Rooms
„Die Sichtbarmachung des Gleichzeitigen“ – „Visualizing the
Concurrent“

74. Thinking/Reasoning learning room in Enlightenment Pedagogics
DENK-LEHRRAUM der Aufklärungspädagogik !
Ecological Theology and Environmental Ethics

75. GLOBAL LEARN DAY
WELCOME TO EUROPE
Finding distance and perspective
or feeling lost in the “woods” and afraid of “walls”?

76. • 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 ?

77. CONCEPTUAL AMBIGUITIES
EXPLOSION of INFORMATION
OBSTACLES in TRACKING
LIMITED GLOBAL CONFERENCING
DISCONNECTS & POOR FEEDBACK
BARRIERS to KNOWLEDGE

78. Conceptual Framework - Slices
Mobility
Agriculture
Land Use
Water
Governance
Conflicts
Urbanization
Consumption
Unmet Needs
Population
Migration
Energy
Trade
Industry

79. Slice:
Agriculture
Activities &
Conditions
Sustainability Problems
Scientific & Technical Solutions
Social, Economic, Political,
& Regulatory Solutions
Rings:

80. WORLD
as PICTURE, as IKON, MODEL, ARTEFACT, NUMBER

81. 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

82. 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

83. 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
Source: Limits to Growth, Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers
& William W. Behrens III, Potomac Associates, New York (1972)
pls. see also The Club of Rome - The Predicament of Mankind, 1970
Subtitle of Fig 1: Although the perspectives of the
world's people vary in space and time, every human
concern falls somewhere on the space time graph.
The majority of the world's people are concerned
with matters that effect only family or friends
over a short period of time.
Others look far ahead in time or over a large area - a
city or a nation. Only few people have
a perspective that extends far into the future.
*
Later we can read in the book: that in contrast to the
majorities focus in the quadrant in the lower left
“box”, the book concerns itself with the upper
right quadrant or “box”.

84. 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
Interactive relations among hierarchically ordered subsystems
of an organism, Inscribed Domains, P. Weiss,
In: Beyond reductionism, Alpbach 1968, pls. see more: IFSR - ISSS

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

87. 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

89. 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 a& 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, ….

90. 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.

91. G loba l S ha ring a nd C oping
C onne c ting Worlds , S c a le s , Me dia , &
F orm s /S truc ture s

92. Exploring and Negotiating the In-Between
Material World
In-material World not-given World
given World
MODEL SPACES
Multi-Perspective,
Systemic, Organismic,
Holistic representations
Additional
Reality Maps
Embodied
Covenant
Artefacts – Models - Worlds
Ecological Theology and Environmental Ethics

93. 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

94. Premier forum des solutions pour développement des musées et expositiones - Journée Access Multimedia
17. - 18. Novembre 1998 - Cité des Sciences et de l‘Industrie
Central issues include:
• Culture and Cyberculture
• Frontiers and Challenges of Conceptual
Navigation
• Orientation and Understanding
• CREATE NEW SPACES AND MAPS?
http://benking.de/meta-paradigm.htm
http://benkign.de/ceptualinstitute/landscape.htm
In such fields the question of context and overview evolves
naturally - This is essential for learning and „daring“ to forget.
As a result the human right to know what something is „about“
can evolve naturally.

95. 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

96. G loba l S ha ring a nd
C oping S ta rting
P oints
HARMONIZATION
The first and most central entry points have been around
a G7 and SRU German Environmental experts initiative
which was taken up by the UN- Environment Programme
UNEP - HEM. late 1980 -- 1992
GLOBAL CHANGE
The other started with the GLOBAL CHANGE conference
1988 in Moscow.
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 broader
public, raising awareness and consciousness, and being correct and
helpful for scientists, politicians, and industry at the same time. I
go public now 1998 as after having this touring exhibition 8 years
in Germany, but never been shown outside Germany, and being
updated and in high demand, there is high danger of losing this
piece and milestone. Politics look east and local when the
exhibition was opened in May 1990. The result we have no public
eye and information about the exhibition, its scope and results. As
this is fatal in my view, I fee I have to change and address that.
I could have also called this UIA guest page GLOBAL CHANGE or LOCAL AND GLOBAL CHANGE - as my work started about
global environmental issues in 1988 with such wide and universal themes. Only because I was involved in two or more projects at that time,
and have a certain background which was about preparing and documenting decisions and presenting results, I was able to make the bridge,
combine what normally is not seen as one - or in one solution. As both project concepts are not only of wider interest and unique in their
approach, specially in their time we are proposing here to follow each background independently and then join in again the flow of events.

98. 1. To create knowledge in a spirit of openness to the
world, integrating new perspectives
2. To think and act in a forward looking manner
3. To acquire knowledge and act in an interdisciplinary
manner
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 the
disadvantaged
10. To be able to motivate oneself to become active
Gestaltungs – Competences UNESCO - Education for
Sustainable Development

99. Gestaltungs-Competence 1 & 7
To create knowledge
in a spirit of
openness to the world,
integrating new perspectives
1.
7.
To be able to reflect
upon one’s own principles
and those of others

100. Kurt Hanks, PARADIGM MAPPING
http://hanksconsulting.com/page10.html

101. Kurt Hanks, PARADIGM MAPPING