Logic ba

An open stage for “Noh” play

How the Concept of “Ba”
can be applied to FCs? Noboru Konno 2010.11.24
Future Center Summit Tokyo 2010
2010 (c)N.Konno, KIRO Please Do Not Copy.

“Ba”

• Place (where) you are
ba
• Place for events, atmosphere

• Situation, moment

• Scenes

• Stage

• Stock exchange

• Conditions, affordance

• Field


Open, ﬂexible platform with
“Noh” stage and “Ba” embedded routines and processes


Funa benkei is a Japanese Noh play written by Kanze Kojirô Nobumitsu, eventually adapted to Kabuki by Kawatake
Mokuami in 1885. It was staged for the ﬁrst time in November that year and starred Ichikawa Danj r IX.

Minamoto no Yoritomo, seeing his younger brother Minamoto no Yoshitsune as a rival power, excludes him from the
royal family despite his loyal performance in battle. Yoshitsune decides to escape and meet up with his retainer
Benkei at the Ômo-no-Ura port. (1)While at a hotel en route, his girlfriend Shizuka dances for him, and her headress
falls off during the dance. It is a bad omen, so she leaves it and returns to Kyoto. (2)Yoshitsune continue the next
day and board the boat, where they are stuck by a dangerous storm. (3)During the storm they are attacked by
ghosts of the sea, among them Taira no Tomomori. They ﬁght the spirits, but to no avail. Eventually Benkei realises
that the only way to defeat a vengeful spirit is through prayer, and the storm dissipates.
Wikipedia

ancient rituals: sacred music
“Kagura” and “ba” and dancing


“Shinto” shrine

“Ba” as Culture

• In Japan, the nature of
“basho” (Place) or
“placelessness” has appeared
more pronounced than in many
other countries. It is because in
Japan the experience of place
before the industrial society is
deep rooted and very old
whereas the landscape
inﬂuenced by urbanization and
industrialization has only
recently been formed.

• “Place and Placelessness”
Edward Relph (1999)


“Ba” and tea ceremony

http://www.archi-miyata.com/database/database.cgi?cmd=s&sc=kouji

東求堂同仁斎 Tou-gu-dou(1486)
Became the origin of the tea room, “tatami”
“shosai”room that is the beginning of the space
Japanese see the commonality in both the 15th 荒川区　Ｈさま邸　戸建　フルリフォーム　2009 年 10 月 12 日
century room and modern Japanese rooms. http://www.l-up.jp/blog/?p=339


“Ba” is Shared Context in Motion in tune with each other


“Ba” is Shared Context in Motion “Becomes it” no separation of I
and it

“Ba” is Shared Context in Motion Devoting Mind


So what’s “ba”?

• The concept is originally
proposed by Japanese
philosopher Kitaro Nishida: as
foundation of existence is
nothingness, only place or ba
can deﬁne the own existence
that “emerges”

• i.e. shared place for emerging
relationships and meaning
場の共有が関係性と意味を創発する

• The place can be physical,
virtual, mental, or any
combination


So what’s “ba”?

• No separation between you and
I, nor this and that, through
fusion of both--- or “pure
experience” (cf. Cartesian
dualism) 主客未分の純粋経験

• Predicative logic vs. subjective
logic 述語論理と主語論理

• Verb driven world=event-
driven world

• Subject driven world =
material driven world


Experience, physical interaction, or inter-subjectivity, as elements
to overcome gaps between logic and facts, rationalism and
empiricism.
経験、身体的相互作用、間主観性が論理と事実、合理主義と経験主義の狭間を埋める

Subject-Object Relationship and
Nishida’s “Pure Experience”


Ba= Shared context-in-motion, dynamic meaning space (topos)

Three Factors
(functions) of Ba:
1.Essential dialog, Explicit k. Shared Context Explicit k.
reflective thinking
2.Communication/info Individual Individual
sharing context
Ba context
Tacit k. Tacit k.
3.Learning/ Practical Ba
collaboration
Mental/Cognitive Ba
Physical Ba
Virtual Ba (Nonaka,Konno 1998)

Tacit knowledge (physical, experience) is basis of
knowledge, because it is directly connected to place/
space/physical relationship.
Sharing context (Ba) is origin of knowledge creation.

Then why Japan needs future centers?

• 従来の「日本的経営」の限界 • Limit of conventional “Japanese
Management”
• イノベーション経営、創造経済の • The era of innovation
時代の到来 management and creative
economy

• 再構築、協業の要請 • Need for reconstruction and
collaboration
• 新たな創造的組織文化への転換 • Shift to new, creative
organizational culture
• 社会的知識資産への注目 • Attention to social capital

FCと場への関心　 An interest to “ba” and FC

“Ba” and Future Center

• Place for emerging
relationships and co-creating of
knowledge

• I=You relationship, collaborative
actions, leadership

• Embedded process of
knowledge creation (“kata” or
creative routine)

• Dynamic networking with other
“ba”


Give attention to sharing experiences, use predicative language to
consciously create and establish “ba”, then develop it....


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