1. Lifestyles & Habbits & Orientation & Awareness & Action:
http://www.slideshare.net/benking/presentations

2. Lifestyles & Habbits & Awareness: Action in shared Global Covenants and Frames of References
Some Slides collected for the UNESCO DESD – Roundtable BERLIN November 2011
BNE PORTAL: DER RUNDE TISCH bne-portal.de (50 slides ENGLISH 2 slides GERMAN )

3. Vegetarianism: Essential to Save the Planet? Sunday, Dec 13th, Copenhagen UNFCCC COP 15
Input statement for the Open Forum – Open-Space “Pitching”Section:
The Need for Synthesis, Synopsis and Shared Action
in view of the outcomes of 20+ years of Global Change exercises:
Challenges, Orientations, Lessons Learned,
and the need for
Participation Opportunities and Options
Heiner Benking
Journalist, long-time experience with global issues, event planning, strategy advising
Secretary of the Council of Global Issues and the Tagore-Einstein Council

4. Vegetarianism: Essential to Save the Planet?
TWITTER
Mogens Dahl Koncertsal, -- Dec. 13, 2009
UNFCCC
CopenVegan

5. Ashok Khosla,
Founder Development
Alternatives, Canada – India
Founder, India's Office of
Environmental Planning
& Coordination
President, IUCN
Co-President, Club of Rome
World Future Council
…..

7. berlinsymposium.org
Keywords: Knowledge Organization, Rough Overview Orientation / Survey knowledge, Structured Dialogic Design (
SDD), Open Government, Cogniscope, Multitrack- Diplomacy, Education, Policy, Transdisciplinarity, Open-Forum,
General Geography, 21stCenturyAgora, SuperSigns, SuperStructures, Governance, Dialog, Stammtisch 2.0 / 3.0,
Global Embodied Covenant, Dialog-Conversation, Participatory Futures, Futures Creation

8. Blind Spots and the Global Problematique,
Global Commons and a Global Embodied Covenant
– a work report and some concerns towards tackling
the Climate and Global Crisis
Heiner Benking
Independent Journalist, Facilitator, Consultant
Council on Global Issues & IHTEC & School Peace Gardens, UN-ECOSOC; Toronto
Tagore Einstein Council, Santiniketan, Berlin, INBAK, Berlin
Positive Nett-Works (PNW), Youth Leader E-zine, Hannover, Berlin
21stCenturyAgora – Open-Forum (PNW & web)

9. OPEN-SPACE Grid The titles below are linked to impressions
and links for further study as requested
and promised. Please check the growing
list of references and material:
ACTION PROPOSALS Slot 1-3:
Workshop Sessions
Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010
Slot 1
Life-Styles and Diets, Energy Efficiency,
Water and Soils, Gardening and
Room 18 Architecture
Slot 2
Slot 1 - 3 Global Commons, Global Compact, Global
embodied Covenants, Earth Charter,
MDGs, Golden Rule and Shared Frames
Heiner Benking of References.
(includes Maps & Models, Metaphors, Schemas, Icons/Images,
Pitsch, Supersigns, Scenarios and Situation Rooms)
Presentations
and Slot 3
Magic Participation, Dialog, Deliberation, Policy-
Roundtables and Peacemaking

11. Monday 17th October 2011, Institute National Genevois , 1204 Geneva
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

12. Dialog & Diskurs - Stammtisch 2.0 und 3.0
Strukturierter Dialog Design / SDDP)
Heiner Benking, Open-Forum; Rolf Schneidereit, Institut für Stakeholder-Dialog
Heiner Benking, Open-Forum
KURZ- BERICHT
Das Halb-Rundgespräch im Garten war improvisiert und Die Beiträge gingen um die Frage ob Dialog und
lebendig, schnell gind es tief in die Diskussion um Demokratie im Netz abgebildet werden können,
synchron und asynchron, liquid, … etc. wie und was synchon oder asynchron abgebildet
werden kann, ob es eine ideale –catch-all”
Rolf Schneidereit vom Institut für Stakeholder-Dialog Lösungen gibt und was der Ursprung von “Liquid
eröffnete die Konversation mit einer Definition des Demorcray” ist. Benking verwies auf dei
Begriffs “Dialog” und der Abgrenzung gegenüber Diskussion zu Fluid, Dyanamic, Floating, Liquid
Downloading und Debatte. Hier die Powerpoints: Democracy for 5 Jahren.
http://www.gov20.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Vom_Disput_zum_Dialog1.pdf
benking.de/dialog/conversations-dialogues2006.pdf
Heiner Benking folgte mit einem update zu Stammtisch
2.0 und 3.0 seit 2009 und was mit neuen Gesprächs- Die Runde war
und Erörterungsformaten real und virtuell gemeint ist. selbstorganisiert
Siehe Structured Dialogic Design und Cogniscope. Statt , lebendig und
Folien hier der Hinweis zu Stammtisch 2./3.0 – und tief, Monologe
weitere Links: blieben
open-forum.de/Stammtisch-2-0-3-0--Benking-GOV-2-0.pdf beschränkt.
update nach 2009: Diverse Halbrunde mit Licht
sites.google.com/site/21stcenturyagora/myths-around-dialogue, Eine Teilnehmerliste und Schatten am Brunnen, …
Empfehlung: www.21stCentruryAgora.org www.open-forum.de steht zur Verfügung. nur der Baum fehlte…

14. Gestaltungs – Competences UNESCO - Education for
Sustainable Development
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

18. anna-lindh-salon.de

19. 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.
http://21stcenturyagora.org/ http://www.globalagoras.org/

21. The Club of Rome - The Predicament of Mankind
Early beginnings 1968- 1970
Quest for
Structured
Response tp
Growing
World-wide
Complexities
and
Uncertainties
1970
A PROPOSAL

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

24. 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

25. G lo b a l S h a rin g a n d
C o pin g S ta rt in g
P o in ts
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.
HARMONIZATION GLOBAL CHANGE
The first and most central entry points have been around
a G7 and SRU German Environmental experts initiative The other started with the GLOBAL CHANGE conference
which was taken up by the UN- Environment Programme
UNEP - HEM. late 1980 -- 1992 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.

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

28. Multimedia
Where do we go from here ?
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
Using Maps and Models,
SuperSigns and SuperStructures
Heiner Benking

29. EWOC 04, Toronto, October 2004
SYSTEMS ENCYCLOPEDIA
Vol. 22, no. 1
Official Newsletter of the
(October 2004)
International Federation of Systems Research
SECOND EDITION
OF THE INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF SYSTEMS AND CYBERNETICS
Charles François (editor), KG Saur Verlag-Thomson, München, 2004
Updated and augmented in more than 740 pages, 1700
articles, some of them with figures, tables and diagrams,
and 1500 bibliographical references.

30. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin – BBK
Berliner Bibliothekswissenschaftliches Kolloquiums
25. Mai 2004
16:00 Uhr Rundgespräch im Cum Laude
Encyclopedias & Atlases in Libraries
Future Aspects
in regard to systematic neo-pragmatic thinking along and across
representations, systems, concepts, and models
18:00 Uhr Vortrag in der Saur Bibliothek
Systemics as a general integrated language
of concepts and models
Charles François
Founder and Editor of the International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics
Heiner Benking
Independent Facilitator and Futurist
Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Encyclopaedia of Systems and Cybernetics

31. http://benking.de/systems/encyclopedia/newterms/

37. SOILS and HUMUS
see as a started this new FILM (2009)
Humus - Forgotten climate aid - The
implications are immense, see also the
Ignorance statement in the beginning of
this presentation, BioChar and Terra
Preta. and another You Tube clip
Biochar - agrichar - Terra Preta.

39. BerlinConference
2010
pls. also see
not-accepted papers
for the BC-2010 !
pl see r u akan e
a mo h r l t s
e se e t e d r
abo s i o
spe g
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from this BC2010
and other sources
relevant for
CANCUN

40. Breaking Down New Walls
10th Annual Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Berlin, November, 9-11 2009
How about that for a beginning?
Eleanor Ostrom, Economy and Political Sciences, Nobel Prize Lecture, Dec, 8., 2009
• multi-perspective • not chaotic – but complex
• multi-positional and multi-centric • common pool resources and sets
• mix of scales • common analytical tools and language
• nested • common and diverse regimes
• meta-data analysis research included across scales
• diversity of rules and systems • communication and agent-based models
• coping with dilemmas • clarifying concepts, trust and reputation
• multi-level •….
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

41. 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 ?
[more]: New Renaissance 3, UN COP15 – UNFCCC side events Copenhagen 2009,
Continuously updated this Blog: www.quergeist.info

42. Breaking Down New Walls
10th Annual Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Berlin, November, 9-11 2009
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,
Interview, Panel-Discussion, …. the spirit negotiates its terrain.
Friedrich Rückert,
Wisdom of the Brahmins a didactic poem,
Charles T. Brooks in 1882
Friedrich Rückert
Die Weisheit des Brahmanen, *
this is a critical translation issue:
ein Lehrgedicht in Bruchstücken WALLS a& BOUNDARIES are „man-made“ – have no equivalent in
Werke, Band 2, Leipzig und Wien Nature. The term Schranken therfore can be trasnlated as restraining
[1897], S. 50-51. bounds, or semiphors, barriers & temporary permeable or translucent /
transparent material/strata/membranes/transition zones).

43. Kurt Hanks, OUT OF THE BOX THINKING
see: Creating a Driving Vision (PDF)
and Getting out of THE BOX

44. Kurt Hanks, OUT OF THE BOX THINKING

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

46. Kurt Hanks, PARADIGM MAPPING

47. FOOT PRINT HAND PRINT MIND PRINT

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General Geography, 21stCenturyAgora, SuperSigns, SuperStructures, Governance, Dialog, Stammtisch 2.0 / 3.0,
Global Embodied Covenant, Dialog-Conversation, Participatory Futures, Futures Creation

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Please note:
This contribution was announced on short notice, to take right after the PRESS
CONFERENCE at the very end of the 3 days of “EXPLORING THE DIGITAL FUTURE”. There
was not time to prepare a WHITE PAPER on October 28– so this can follow here and needs
to be updated and improved !!
I have added and linked KEYWORDS (below) so some material on the way can be easily
accessed. More, like on last years Berlin 100, 200, 300 years celebrations, follow from the
next slides.
The next slides – some of them have been presented in Berlin – were taken from the
GYC 2011 conference the author presented in Geneva in October.
The collection below will be changed in the next months ! I AM IN THE PROCESS OF
RECORDING WITH AUDIO the following set of slides – SO PLEASE COME BACK !!
Keywords: Knowledge Organization, Rough Overview Orientation / Survey knowledge, Structured Dialogic Design (SDD), Open Government, Cogniscope, Multitrack
- Diplomacy, Education, Policy, Transdisciplinarity, Open-Forum, General Geography, 21stCenturyAgora, SuperSigns, SuperStructures, Governance, Dialog, Stammtisch 2.0 / 3.0,
Global Embodied Covenant, Dialog-Conversation, Participatory Futures, Futures Creation

52. e – DISCUSSION ON ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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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.
UN – ECOSOC- AMR 2008:
http://www.quergeist.net/AMR-2008/
http://www.un.org/ecosoc/newfunct/Responses_in_Full-Part_I.pdf

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