Gebser 2017-heiner benking concreteness in integral worlds-revisited

SEEING THROUGH THE WORLD: TRANSPARENCY AND PLANETIZATION
47th International Jean Gebser Society Conference - gebser.org/transparency2017
6-7 OCTOBER 2017, Judson Memorial Assembly Hall, New York, NY
In Jean Gebser’s body of work, the principle of
transparency is a unique expression of the emerging
integral world. The nascent, integral structure of
consciousness, which Gebser believed was well
underway during his lifetime, could be identified by its
spiritual capacity to render the world transparent, to
shine through (durchscheinen) to its originary and
primordial powers. The effect this would have on the
previously realized structures of consciousness
would be to render them diaphanous in both its dark
aspects (the magic and mythic ontologies) as well as
its light aspects (the mental-rational ontology). The
synonyms clarity and lucidity were also provided by
Gebser as qualitative descriptors—found in both the
arts, through poets like Rilke, or the sciences,
through physicists like Niels Bohr and Werner
Heisenberg with the discoveries in quantum
mechanics—to further elucidate the integral
structure.
Videoconference with Heiner Benking:
Concreteness in Integral Worlds

The presentation by Heiner Benking revisits a previous paper delivered for the XXVII Annual Jean Gebser Conference titled Worldly Expressions of
the Integral, October, 2001 at Ohio University, Athens, OH and updates on work done with Otto Schärli--- Architect, Humanist, Artist, a friend of Jean
Gebser and late president of the Jean Gebser Society in Germany in the 90ies. Schärli was close to Hugo Kückelhaus, which helps us to bridge worlds of
knowing and experiencing, the given or “not-given”.
As the paper has not been presented due to “9/11”, some slides for clarification: “Worldview Compositions” have been added from the Altenberg
workshop on „Emergence and the Psychology of Humans“: Konrad-Lorenz-Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, 1996/97.
www.gebser.org/conferences benking.de/Gebser2017.html
SEEING THROUGH THE WORLD:
TRANSPARENCY AND PLANETIZATION
47th International Jean Gebser Society Conference 6-7 OCTOBER 2017 Judson Memorial Assembly Hall, New York
Concreteness
in Integral Worlds
– some constructions –
Heiner Benking

gebser.org/integrative-explorations

Otto Schärli, Heiner Benking
thur.de/philo/Benking/effe_en.html

Premier forum des solutions pour développement des musées et expositione
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/macroscopehttp://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/macroscope/
„Magnetic Portals“: Information Strategy Magazine, July/August 1998

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,...
● prison ?●
● varieté ?●
● show ?●
● labyrinth ?●
● bomb ?●
● sweet pie ?
● the final flood of
post-modern
CyberCulture ?

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“.

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.

Order Schemas
Form constants as mapped
the cartographer of consciousness
Brian Horst OMNI Sept. 1980

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TO EUROPE
Finding distance and perspective
or feeling lost in the “woods” and afraid of “walls”?

Otto Schärli sketching with Hugo Kückelhaus “in mind”
how different kinds of information, signs and concepts can be related.

Ecological Theology and Environmental Ethics
OTTO SCHÄRLI
was 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.

Gebser – synchron-optical “grids” - schemas - scaffoldings …..

- Wherefrom / Whence ?
- Why ?
- Whereto / Whither ?

Roots and Wings
I want to mention here and dedicate this presentation to people I
learned from, colleagues and friends, and show how they contributed,
formed and informed me, and helped and set an example by their work
and being….
Such work and life examples are highlighted below to provide an idea
about how I want to make concrete differences that matters, how “I
tick” and how and why I construct and share.
● Rabindranath Tagore/Ṭhākur - Albert Einstein, Ralph Siu, Herbert Stachowiak
● Erich Jantsch, Alexander Christakis, John Warfield, Robert Jungk
● Donella Meadows, Elinor Ostrom, Elisabeth Mann-Borgese, Merete Mattern
● Robert Jungk, Peter Carleton, Charles François, Kurt Hanks, Barbara Vogl
● Frederic Vester, Friedemann Schwartzkopf, Anthony Judge, Cop Mcdonald
●
●
and prominently featured: 2 ARCHITECTS and 1 MODEL / SYSTEMS / PRAGMATICS pioneer::
OTTO SCHÄRLI & ALFRED SCHINZ & HERBERT STACHOWIAK

ALFRED SCHINZ 1919-1999 benking.de/schinz

WORD & PICTURE & MAP/MODEL “EDUCATED !?

Character-set - Sign-sets & Frames of References
Mit jedem Namen schon,
den wir den Dingen geben,
nehmen wir ihnen einen Teil
der Wirklichkeit.
Jean Gebser
Das Wintergedicht 1944
Novalis revisited … ?

The Thinking-Learning Space
of Enlightenment Education
Wunderkammern - Scaffoldings
– Models & Architecture
The measurement schema of Erelitou I
with Ying and Yang grids. Alfred Schinz

ORDERS SCHEMAS SCAFFOLDINGS MAPS MODELS
WUNDERKAMMERN

The fixed frame of reference
becomes a cage with build-in
obsolescence.
In its place must come an
expanding field of irregular
pulsating reference frames
generating a constant flow of
exchange and capable of
encompassing greater
synthesis and integration.
Fields Within Fields … Within Fields
THE WORLD INSTITUTE, Julius Stulmann, 1968
The Methodology
of the Creative Process

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
Friedrich Rückert
Die Weisheit des Brahmanen,
ein Lehrgedicht in Bruchstücken
Werke, Band 2, Leipzig und Wien
[1897], S. 50-51.
Interview,
Panel-Discussion, ….
*
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).
10th Annual Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Berlin, November, 9-11 2009

2 modes of knowing / experiencing the world !?
or multi-modal?, embodied, diaphane, …??
∙ Perceptual - cognitive - symbolic
∙ Direct - intuitive - nonlocal
Robert Fludd - (Immanuel Kant)
There are many dualistic splits in our concepts:
➢ Lumpers - Splitterers
➢ Black – White
➢ East – West
Mundus intelligibilis – Mundus sensibilis
& Mundus Imaginabilis & Mundus Memoratiua
…...
MULITI-MODAL – EMBODIED – ALIFE - TRANSPARENT
or ontological splits between being & thinking !?
● Luna, Frecsa, Laszlo

Fig 1: The CINCI - Canyon: The technology canyon between coded- and
non-coded information. benking.de/bridge-masterplan.html
13th ICSU - CODATA Conference in collaboration with the ICSU-Panel on
World Data Centers, Beijing, October 1992 Databases and Definition
Problems: Workshop M and System Presentation Bridges and a Masterplan
for Islands of Data in a Labyrinth of Environmental and Economic
Information

LET‘s TRY TO LEARN AND EXPERIENCE MORE,
LET‘s GO BEYOND WALLS AND MODELS
Plan „B“ has a flaw
Why not go for PLAN „D“?
(overview & overclaims)
Searching for alternatives
for knowing, presenting,
representing, and sharing?
The European CEC „white paper“ Towards a Learning Society started with
Condorcet asking us to experience and even try new ways. The Club of Rome Report
quotes the children with „get real or get lost“. Children workshops showed in 1993
that they picked the proposed concepts up very naturally and easily, they wrote as a
headline our View of Life is too Flat“. All cultures request to make words solid and
use a living, embodied language with analogies and metaphors.
We recommend these links to show that „big pictures“ and „other models“ are
possible and the work-reports and material on education including Theses for
Education“ from Turku, WFSF 1993 „big pictures“ have been also asked here 9 years later
but how? And can be also found here:
GLOBAL LEARN DAY

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

● real spaces
perceptual
__________________________________
● concept spaces
conceptual
www.meta-self.com
benking.de/
ceptualinstitute/
borderland.htm
GLOBAL LEARN DAY - 1996
WELCOME TO EUROPE
Why not:
think objects/subjects deep ?
take space real and serious ?
enjoy and play in spaces ?
make spaces places ?
which can help making sense ?
ease understanding ?
Sharing & bridging realities

Model Thinking & Pragmatics
Herbert Stachowiak 28. Mai 1921 - 2004
Studium Generale, Springer, 1965
Scientific Thought, UNESCO 1972
Allgemeine Modelltheorie, Springer 1973
General Model Theory
Modelle und Modelldenken im Unterricht,
Klinkhardt 1980
Modell und Kunst, 1981
Pragmatics Pragmatik, Vol. I-V
Meiner 1986-96
…..

The both sides of Wholeness and the Way in-between. Fig. 147. Die Weltformel der Unsterblichkeit,
Vom Sinn der zahl - die Einheit der Natur, Michael Stelzner
Form constants as mapped by the cartographer
of consciousness, Brian Horst OMNI Sept. 1980
Vision Quest - The Four Shields
Global Sharing and Coping
Transformation of Representation
benking.de/ceptualinstitute/landscape.htm

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

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

KnowMap
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

KnowMap
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

Old and New Spaces, Orders and Models
for Orientations and Agreements
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
ACTIONS
Systematic, communicative
General Model Theory,
ETHICS & PRAGMATICS
Jonas / Stachowiak

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

ICONS - IMAGES - METAPHORS - SCHEMAS - BODIES

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"

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

Alternative presentations of the periodic
table or layout of chemical elements
Battle of Perspectives ?
GLOBAL LEARN DAY WELCOME TO EUROPE

Guilford, J. P., The Nature of Human
Intelligence,
New York: McGraw Hill, 1967.
Cube Interface, Global Energy Network
and Information System, Millennium Project,
WFUNA

benking.de/systems/encyclopedia/newterms/#_Toc87362165
systemspedia.org
/entry.aspx?entry=0484

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.

LINK TO GLOBAL CHANGE EXHIBITION
GLOBAL CHANGE 1990-99

Starting Points uia.org
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.
GLOBAL CHANGE
The 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 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.

INST-Conference
6-8. December 2002, Austria Center, Vienna
benking.de/semiotics/terminology.htm
benking.de/semiotics/TKE-99.html
benking.de/ceptualinstitute/terminology.htm
http://benking.de/Global-Change /harmonization-global-change.html
http://benking.de/Global-Change

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”

Blackbox and Whitebox - systemic terms

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
• 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
•….

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

OTTO SCHÄRLI
was 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.
Ecological Theology and Environmental Ethics

Connecting Worlds, Scales, Signs, Media, & Forms/Structures

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
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KURT HANKS - The VISUALIZER RAPID VIZ
winstonbrill.com/bril001/html/article_index/articles/451-500/article467_body.html

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

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"

MOTIVATION BEHAVOIR
PERSPERCTIVE taking
How about a combination of:
● PERSPERCTIVES
● POSITIONS
● FRAMES of REFERENCES

Structural plasticity of the social brain: Differential change after socio-affective
and cognitive mental training
Sofie L. Valk1, Boris C. Bernhardt1,2, Fynn-Mathis Trautwein1, Anne Böckler1,3, Philipp Kanske1,4, Nicolas
Guizard2, D. Louis Collins2 and Tania Singer1,*
Science Advances 04 Oct 2017: Vol. 3, no. 10, e1700489, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1700489

DIGITAL PETERS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRx
gWPDkYTA&feature=related
PETERS MAP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osQ
N7aSQV9w&feature=related

European 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
HYPER HISTORY & Reference Rooms
„Die Sichtbarmachung des Gleichzeitigen“ – „Visualizing the
Concurrent“

HOW TO LIE WITH MAPS
qk
m
1
3
22
30
10
18

benking.de/dialog/LJUBLJANA-DIALOGUES.htm
Ljubljana meeting is inspired by our deep conviction that there are huge paradigmatic changes going on
right now and that some extremely important new discoveries are "hanging in the air" right ahead of us.
By highlighting some of the selected crucial themes we wish to contribute in ripening of this fruits of our
restless time.
*
The consciousness researcher Bernard Baars speaks about „global workplaces of the mind", something
others, as David Feinstein and Stanley Krippner, have called „mythologies" - both cultural and personal.
So the question is: Can we have a bridge between the personal, social and cultural „mythologies"?
When we review the ontological question „what is real" we are immediately in the dilemma of everyone
having his own perceptions and reasoning and all of us living in „parallel worlds" without any connection,
without any exchange and reinforcement/acknowledgement between them. This has lead into the
benking.de/dialog/r-benking.html
See HAGIA CHORA:
House of Eyes

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

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

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

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“.

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

Futures of a Complex Wo
12–13 June 2017, Turku, Finland
www.futuresconference.f
Session Futures of Education, Art and Cultural Studies Session V, Tue 13 June 2017
FUTURES of learning and negotiation,
policy-making, and
awareness/consciousness
Heiner BenkingKeyword:
Democracy, Education, the Future of Models, Systems, Media, Signs and Senses
» Check: benking.de/futures

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

commonsactionfortheunitednations.org
pelicanweb.org
pelicanweb.org/solisustv11n
age5.html

UN – ECOSOC- AMR 2008:
N) Proposal for Lindh-Foundation, European – Mediteranian Countries, Berlin-Alexandria 2008. 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 “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".

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, Representation
(like Scaffoldings), Boundaries, Scales, Languages and Mindsets ….

● 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

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,

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

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 Intellig
New York: McGraw Hill, 1967.
Structure of Intellect. [175] Cf. the work of H
Benking.
To be publihed in 9. Augmented knowledg
book by Kim Veltman:
Augmented Books, Knowledge, and Cultu
http://www.isoc.org/inet2000/cdproceedings
6d/6d_1.htm
These quests to master new knowledge owe much to systems theory, "chaos theory" (a seemin
contradictory combination of terms), complexity, [77] and developments in neural networks, whe
systematic treatments of apparently random forms bring unexpected patterns of order.
What makes these trends the more significant is that thinkers concerned with the systematizatio
intellect, such as Guilford, have intuitively sought to link units, classes, relations, systems, etc. w
products and operations (figure 12). Cf. the work of Heiner Benking.

Cognition Research
Altenberg Workshops 1996/97 30. January 1997, Austria,
Worldview Compositions and Cognitive Spaces
- a necessary evolutionary step
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
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. Maybe visit this

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 respec
trust, and cooperation.

[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:

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

● 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
●
●

Re-inventing Democracy with generative and disciplined transdisciplinary – intergenerationa
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

The ICC is in the MMI Library
KNOW-MAPS FOR KIDS
patterns can be meanings that connect
GLOBAL LEARN DAY
WELCOME TO EUROPE

gebser.org/seeing-through-the-world-registration
Concreteness in Integral Worlds
– some constructions –
Heiner Benking
The presentation by Heiner Benking revisits a previous paper delivered for the XXVII Annual Jean Gebser Conference titled Worldly Expressions of
the Integral, October, 2001 at Ohio University, Athens, OH and updates on work done with Otto Schärli--- Architect, Humanist, Artist, a friend of Jean
Gebser and late president of the Jean Gebser Society in Germany in the 90ies. Schärli was close to Hugo Kückelhaus, which helps us to bridge worlds of
knowing and experiencing, the given or “not-given”.
As the paper has not been presented due to “9/11”, some slides for clarification: “Worldview Compositions” have been added from the Altenberg
workshop on „Emergence and the Psychology of Humans“: Konrad-Lorenz-Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, 1996/97.
SEEING THROUGH THE WORLD:
TRANSPARENCY AND PLANETARIZATION
47th International Jean Gebser Society Conference 6-7 OCTOBER 2017 Judson Memorial Assembly Hall, New York

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