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Welcome to the NewsLog or Blog of Heiner Benking. This is a kaleidoscope of insights and impulses collected first in the Seeds of Change Viewsletter in 1995 and continually updated ever since, but now made available for broader distribution and comments - enjoy, and come again !
People to Watch:
Anthony Judge
Flemming Funch
Peter Jones
Alexander Christakis
quergeist
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WHAT IS HOT?
GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION
Conference Program
Berlin "Towards a Global, Embodied Covenant"
Re-inventing Democracy
Dialog among Civilizations - Dialog towards Unity in Diversity
Dialogues and Conversations - Participation and Moderation/Mediation: Ways and Means towards Re-inventing Democracy and Good-Governance
Positions and Identities in Global Contexts: Awareness of Self and Others with me, you, we, they and "others" models
Flatlands & Deeplands - a page about maps and models and Earth Literacy
Towards one Possible Global Embodied Covenant: Models, - not just Systems, Signs, Words and Images - Interdisciplinary Conference 2004: The Evolution of World Order - EWOC
Using Maps and Models, SuperSigns and SuperStructures - CODATA 2005
Granularity, Topicality, and Generalization of Information - Reflections about maps and models, orienting generalizations and their possible pragmatic and ethical implications and challenges, CODATA 2005
Oikos-Ecumene-Ecodomy - contribution to a conference on space and sacred spaces. The proposal to share a World House or House of Eyes as part of a cognitive panorama
Panoptic, the need to see big pictures on common jointly explored and discussed schemas or frames
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I was asked for kick-start / short access-keys to my BLOG entries or central concepts, sites I often use or URLs I often link to. Here we go:
oikos-ecumene-ecudomy
systems-encyclopedia-new-terms
bamberg2007
menuhin
good-news
dropping-knowledge
sharing-action-wisdom
lovers-of-democracy
problematique
wir-lernen-sprechen
traumland-dialog
earth-day
systemic-dialogues
peace-roundtables
handelsblatt-neue-schulen-22-2-06
dialog-groupforms
cultures-generations-dialog
chance2000
bull-eyes
bpb-spielmethoden
seeds-of-change
rubiks-cube
meta-paradigm
magic-roundtable
higher-education
grand-challenges
global-covenant
earth-literacy
cognitive-panorama
ROBUST PATHS - AFRICA BEYOND POVDERTY
OPTICS OF ETHICS
TU TU WAS - Zusammenhaenge begreifen
FAW_NEWSLETTER
governance / 7 points
12 these education - LIFE IS TOO FLAT
WORKPLACES OF MIND
BOHM DIALOGUES
SIDE EVENTS
AIZU-Realities-landscape
HOUSE OF EYES
EXTENSIONS - Medical-Scientific Network /
Asilomar - sharing Voices/Spaces
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ENCYCLOPEDIA
see: ENTRIES / TERMS:
COGNITIVE PANORAMA 1) - 2)
COGNITIVE SPACES 1)
ECO-CUBE/KNOW MAP 1) - 2) - 3)
MAP (Mental) 2) - 3)
MAP TERRITORY RELATION 2) - 3)
MAPPING 2)
METAPHORIC FRAMEWORK 1) - 2) - 4)
METAPHORS (Classes of) 2)
MULTI-PERSPECTIVISM 1) - 2) - 4)
PANORAMA OF UNDERSTANDING 1) - 2)
PANORAMA THINKING 1) - 2)
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  Again for 40 years we can celebrate Earth Day. But which earth day? Earth day at Equinox? Southern or Northers Hemisphere?
I have covered the theme extensively in the past, so maybe check it out:
[link] Planet in Crisis [link] Last years Equinox
or wait another 10 or 40 years to learn to look into earth-cycles and traditions! and see the many days there are to celebrate the Whole EARTH: [link]
i just saw this form ECOTOPIAs Ernest Callenbach about EARTH DAY "do nots": [link]
This urge for not ignoring the issues at hand and calling Issues Issues, Crisis a crisis might also be of interest: [link]
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  finally we have the last day of this years ietm in Berlin. Plan see is slowly emerging, maybe we need some more maimeutic midwifery today !
maybe I should add my seeion reports also here, so please come back
and before visit SEARCHING for PLAN C..
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Please see the outcom of the OPEN SPACE, Session 24, wher we did our Open-Forum exercise... (PDF) or see WORD DOC
and do not forget to visit the IETM homepage !! [link]
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 Yesterdays eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano called back lasting memories, a story from 1988, where in the press conference Prof. Degens was not ready to paint a icture a lasting nightmare of an overheated planet or ice-age planet.
The media pushed hard but he refused to paint a nighmare scenario, as this would not be science he said roughly, the media should look back in earth history and make out there own conclusion, he only mentioned later that new might be only the degree of possible rapid change.
For people in environmental research this is obvious if we think twice, but it was for the media something they angrily commented: Scientists not telling what to expect and what is going on !
Now 22 year later this looks funny, now we know, even created possible ceilings and guard rails, as politics were more demanding than media, to have scientist do the forecast or outlook requested. But what is this IPCC knows and can predict the Future, specially when there are obviously only futures in plural and can not be predicted Neither in natural nor in social and cultural human worlds !
This is not a contrarian view ! I was reading with Ernst Ulrich von Weiszsäcker about CONTRARIANS already in the late 80ies, when he was in Bonn and Brussels, about these denying "CONTRARIANS" who refused to consider man-made impacts - on this considered stable and endless system of Planet Earth !
What an ignorance ! please see this article soon hitting the streets: "ignorance or compassion" [link] or the work on GLOBAL CHANGE we introduced in late May 1990. Please wait for May 30th "Challenges to Science and Politics" touring exhibition.
At this point I can only link to the exhibition [link] and EARTH IN TROUBLE ! [link] and check Human Dimensions and Human Responsibility with time and space horizons (Hans Jonas)http://benking.de/jonas-1993.html , as this is the time, likt with Mount StHelen where we can experience natures ! non-point polution impacts!
Why I call this piece? Last call / Final Calling ? Because I think we should follow up on this question: Do we need "New Science, new Language, new Thinking ?
HOW ABOUT? OLD and proven, traditional and NEW Thinking and Doing and Sharing ? [link]
please come back later - we had challenging days these days and years and need to step back, consider deep and other questions and answers
Meanwhile follow the links and consider what the founder of this encyclopedia of systems and cybernetics said about complexity, surprise and predictability when we introduced the new edition:
[link] and maybe these concepts to consider being concrete and share common frames and schemas: [link]
In Santa Fe we learned that the more we study complexity, the more we are perplexed ! So let us step back, check the issues and context and not not consider we know whne we do not ! - or just need to meet at certain number to be safe and can continue to muddle trough as always, all heads deeep in the sands, fogs, dust, ashes....
Finally, what we experience today is not the last call ! Nature as icon in time has experienced much worse in times, but humanity is getting more fragile ever day, so we have to be on the watch on the proportions and consequences, the potential infliction of suffering. [link]
MORE about the CLOUD here: [link]
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 please come back ! [link] and see programme about social media, culture, access,....
It was much too late last night, so tonight to get more concrete and public about THE re:public. I have not yet found a good review in English, and even the homepage of the re:public is only "partially" in English. So maybe see our "Freitag" weekly for a first view on the matter of WIKIPEDIA and MASS Phenomena: [link]
I also recommend NEW THINKING: [link]
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 The Daisy and Sunflower [link] represent Unity in Diversity [link] http://open-forum.de/Dialog-selected-Publications.htm, the spectrum and variety of positions, perspectives and issues without domination and hierarchy. All participants might experience being on equal terms, no person dominates or sits on the top of the table, instead we see a rotation and beauty with the spectrum of tasted, opinions and concerns. Definitely there are Presidents, Heads of States and Networks, but also stakeholders, risktakers, drivers, observers, .... (all are needed !!: [link]) (see more at 21stCentury Agora [link] and [link]
We meet this week in Barcelonas a network of networks, the Anna-Lindh Foundation representing 43 countries in the EuroMed region. What I hope for is a Work-Nett of Networks. [link] & By the way I am representing here the Positive Nett-Works from Hannover and Berlin. [link] We will start with the first sessions now, so come back to check what is happening….
What I hope we can achieve this time? Something we already exercised around the 1001 Actions of the ALF at 1001 actions, [link] and the UN-CBD and UNESCO-DESD [link] Doing roundtables to dialogue in informal setting on “equal footing” what we call magic round-tables,[link] a setting we do as media-delegated dialogues [link] http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v396/__show_article/_a000396-000037.htm around events of any kind to make sure people interact deeply and efficiently and at the same time co-create, empower voices that matter…. Maybe see Voices from earlier events and check if you want to not only talk about dialoge, but experience and do it.
PLEASE COME BACK LATER - we are rushing here in busy times....
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   Berlin is again
beside the Transmediale [link] and the Berlinale [link] full of media glitter and creative media movers and shakers. What a time... We are at the edge to thinking deep - not new for me as 3D vizualisation was my think & do "thing" (in deep and in colour since 25+ years), but only now the technology is at the edge of reaching the public eye and mind as we can see in movies and interfaces.
I will hop between the events and lounges , and my heart and concerns are with immersion into old & new spaces, as an old and new door and vistas opened, for example with new intefaces. See gesture cubes ! [link] or what we called Advanced Visual Interfaces. [link] Interfaces even for Cultural Heritage ! - see also this more recent virtual worlds proposal: [link]
Going from 2d-3d is not new for me, from flat to deep and maybe also from Show to Schau ! [link] and being aware of interface design and immersion or the challenges of virtual reality [link] , but what it means to have all walls as monitors and connect the space in-between still rocks my mind. I know that we need spaces for knowledge in modern times of internet and media, like we need space for living, if we do not want to end in the noise of Cyberculture, and I know we can agree on spaces and frames, orders and rules, like we can agree to drive on the right lane and stop at the red light. But who dares to challenge orders and frames, not by postmodern irgnorance, but by negotiating, creating and moving line and objects. I always come back to the citation of Rueckert, maybe someone will check it out and help translate it to the modern media age!?
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 – above is unfortunately only a clumsy first translation by Robinson/Benking as we could only get hold of the original German version. More at BRINGING DOWN NEW WALLS: [link]
So maybe we can find ways together between the movies, media, and realities locally and globally instead of being sumbmerged in the glut of endless, no-return Cyberculture [link]
If you care to see what agreed frames and spaces might look like, goto: TONY [link]
or check out what we mean by deep and flatworlds: [link]
A footnote:
I am shocked getting today this [link] to get a Journal covering the topics above for a subscription of 500+ Dollar per year. See still high tech with lots of insider development potentials.
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    Grüne Woche THE GREEN WEEK in Berlin
Berlin is an exciting but alsounique, but also strange hub - 50 agriculture ministers 50 agriculture ministers and their cohorts flying in and out , but the public takes little notice, except flooding the fair geting some food and drinks. Little discussion you find about our diets, out agriculture, fisheries, and forestry.
The way we produce agro-fuels is of little concern, buch much is decided on the very bottom, on the ground and per capita, by the people and consumers. So maybe some people should revisit the CopenVegan entries, just scroll down 4 weeks ...
Summit declarations, as always are marvelous, the question is who is implementing and who is going to live with other forms of energy, new healthy but stange diets, and the way we handle out soils and waters?
I was tempted to show above the typical picture of the ministers meeting the press for a photo, but I felt to show the stage better some hours later. This is telling much more - not only that we need a jam-session with many more instruments and voices, but that the whole summit was still goverened by strange, distoted pictures of teh world (in our minds and aon the wall). Nobody seemed to have noticed that it most convenient to show the Planet Earth without the Antarctic (nobody is living there) and Greenland much larger that for excample India, when in reality it is the opposite - India is 3 times larger than Greenland !
During the day we where in the Berlin ZOO - with an Eskimo-Inuit from Greenland - remembering us about compassion with all living things - not just with Icebears - we will meet him tomorrow again at the GRUENE WOCHE.
Some Politicians argue for their lot, they like regional warning unaware of global heating, or confuse per capita versus per area - or any kind on singularily arbitray number. There is much confusion about scales, change (slow and fast/rapid) and issues per capita or per area). Ignorance abound you meet in the discussion on the podia or on the way...
I can only recommend at this late hour to visit my earth literacy pages - as there is too much ignorance and confusion on the basics and terms, so how do you think communication can work !? I can also advise to check the COP15 UN Climate entries from December 09 in this Blog and maybe see me later...
I need morfe soon - but please visit meanwhile the Copenhagen dilemmata and our little side-event in Copenhagen called CopenVegan. - and come back soon with "UNCLE" at the Polarworld events. - I need to get some rest now !
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 I finally have made available the interview with Alexander Christakis (PDF), who was sitting with Özbekhan and Peccei looking into the Club of Rome future work - early reports and possible futures in view of the mess already on the horizon - 40 years ago !
Please see the eulogy for Christakis' fatherly friend Özbekhan.
I think everybody who has heard about the LIMITS to GROWTH should also know about the bigger picture: shared and hopefully positive: prognostic, participative and normative futures !! what this means to democray I have just
TWITTER tweeted at DoemoracyIS here:
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  Democracy is .... Please have a look and share widely: TWITTER feed: [link] more: [link]
and: [link] Real-time results for twitter.com #DemocracyIs
#DemocracyIs caring for variety: Requisite Variety, Parisomony, Saliency, Meaning, .. Variety.
#democracyIs shared prognostic, normative & participative FUTURES. More @ Club of Rome long ago:
Demoracy is voting and a dialog, deliberation & decision culture: See sharing, caring and daring. #democracyis
Sharing, empowerment, co-creation. Maybe see it happening at magic roundtables: & #democracyis
#DemocracyIs stakeholders, risktakes, drivers, observers, consultants, .. with rules & frames on one table for a given time: who is at the table ?
MORE AT: Peace Nobels and Crisis Summit? with new thinking, science, languaging,... ?.
see also the NO WALLS !! 2009 update:
2009 was not just Copenhagen CopenVegan “pitching”, bringing the sectors, scales, levels together, of the Interview with Aleco on 40 years Predicament of Humankind, but reconnecting with Indiana, and Lynton Caldwells new star, the Nobel Prize for see Elinor Ostrom.
Here my what is HOT at year 2009’s end:
Interview Aleco:
COPENHAGEN COP 15 see side-event at:
Berlin Change Days (BCD):
NEW Renaissance:
GOVERNMENT 2.0:
Sustainabiltiy Week Berlin HUB
HUMANE & CULTURAL DIMENSIONS X.0.
description. 1001 Dialogues & 10 001 Seeds:
Dialog Publications - ECO-THEO-Ethical and other dialog and decision culture links.
Last not least: I recommend: GLOBAL AGORA:
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Two and a half year ago, at Commission on Sustainable Development held on 15 May 2007 at the United Nations in New York, we urged delegates to be bold ! and not only use the term "crisis" in an official United Nations documents, or headlines:
FOR BOLD DELEGATIONS
Give the title-less negotiating text a TITLE. Here is a proposed title in this carbon-constrained globalizing world where mitigation and adaptation are needed to cope with the climate crisis:
Commission on Sustainable Development +15 AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS: 2000 – 2100, see document (hand-out):
What happened in Copenhagen?
1) Many of the CSD members, were not at the COP conference, so there was no apparent continuance or cohesion.
2) Civil Society and Media were not in "place",
3) There was a lack of inter-cultural checking of climate change language, terminology or cultural expressions used in the preparation of the final document.
4) Insufficient participation and deliberation by those who attended such an important conference.
I urge bold delegates today at UNFCC [more] and in further summits to:
1) Outline the frames of reference using stronger words and communication. These must go beyond isolated words and values.
2) Harmonize information and follow the proposed route towards wider targets such as the EESC proposal side-event: "Climate Change, GDP and measurements of prosperity" , or this years Nobel Prize to Eleanor Ostrom, Economy and Political Sciences, Dec, 8., 2009, (slide 44).
3) Use the arts and role-play when showcasing their positions, and make these fit the situation. eg: See Richard C. Collins and the performance/video "The Challenge of the Madrigal Sea" (Chesapeake Bay 1993) "A Coastal Sea in Trouble", for example, or the round-tables to discuss "Another Earth in Trouble?" at UN Climate 1995 , the "non-predecessor" of Kyoto". [more]
This is a first hand response after attending to Copenhagen 2009 for two weeks. We have worked for many weeks prior to the conference with others around the world. This blog cannot give all the answers, but if you visit "pitch" (PDF 2MB) and look at the last side-event of the KLIMAFORUM 09, it will help you to be involved and add your views and also vote. What I mean is well described at the pitch - slide 22,25,28, 43,44, and 64. 21stCenturyAgora site, in the Obamavision exercise, and in the event mentioned above.
PLEASE COME BACK as I have to "jump trains" tonight and need to recover in the "calm season" at years end. Meanwhile maybe check the slides below: (I will use Lecturnity so you have a full presentation maybe at the end of the year).
In case you like FOOD FOR THOUGHT and ACTION I can recommend this roundtable recommendations done in a process over years in Toronte (PDF)- this years DRAFT by Julia Morton-Marr:
FOOD AND POPULATION ROUNDTABLE outcomes from Nov. 20 - 21, 2009
see also the 2007 WASAN ACTION FRAMEWORK on CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY - Interdisciplinary Round Table on Climate Change and Energy Strategies (CCERT)
September 14/15, 2007 Muskoka Lakes, Ontario, Canada, website.
and maybe check out the whole COUNCIL OF GLOBAL ISSUES site:
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  Last night we harvested in the Survival Academy, revisited the side-events and looked into the future of the Academy and also the beautiful and precious planet, and not just of us Earthlings.
Stay tuned - check the links from yesterday and check out the young guy and ladies being the backbone of this UNFCCC COP15 in Copenhagen, CopenVegan, HopenHagen.... I am getting confused these days - sik more about the survival Academy and the side events here: One idea came up, was revisited !! It was to make again a parody about teh "situation", same as in the MADRIGAL SEE (Chesapere Bay, Baltimore) 1993 or so and then revisited at UN Clima'95 in Berlin, where we asked:
"Which world is in trouble !?" and how to go beyond Summits and Agendas !!.
Obama just passed by on the way to Bella Centre / no time for a breakfast deal / looks like he has to help bracketing and coping comming to survival ends hopefully tomorrow some time / and hopefully not a quick-fix but something towards something solid, lasting, helpful and that matters towards mount awareness and shared orientations and solutions... stay tuned - Copenhagen is "hip" these days...
I need to sum up this "negotiations" a.s.a.p. - but as we have fallen into deep solemn vigil coma after weeks and months of preparations, it seems better to take a deep breath, consider this proposal for an emergency summit, but also to relax, step back, look from above and with lots of oblique views http://benking.de/Global-Change/Geoecodynamics-1988.html. on the matters, as it it important to know where we and want/need to go, individually, socially, culturally and collectively !.
Mark Twain one wrote: "When we lost our direction we doubled our efforts" (or so). A case for general orientation and governace, not just for personal directions... beyond turns and turfs.
Good Night & Good Luck !
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   just arrived at the UN CLIMATE SUMMIT - will keep you briefed !
hectic and crucial times - sorry did not have time - but if interested in my farings maybe see the link to our side event and my "pitch" to open the participative section and give a controversial stance to discuss and mobilize concerted actions and alliances:
Pitch to open the dialog
INVITATION to the side-event by the SURVIVAL ACADEMY:
INVITATION & Preliminary PROGRAMME of the event:
VEG ALLIANCE CopenVegan:
Presentations.
my pitch. I believe some video productions / clips and photo series will be available soon, I have seen a couple of cameras and video teams...
This QUERGEIST BLOG:.
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I have came across and found many different ways and means to make a difference, but only when I met Robert Jungk and Kjell Dahle in 1991 they showed me what is going on around "databases of hope" or "positive views".
I became confident that also good news need to travel fast and that our multi-lingual UN "harmonization" repositories from the late 80ies need to reach the people. We had always quoted that "much is known, unfortunately in different heads" - but international bodies were more hindering than supporting the trends towards isolation and seggregation in the ways they are organised and operate.
The Ideas Bank of of Kjell Dahle and the work of Anthony Judge were example for me on how not only collect but connect, transcend and make available information. More on the history and how it can reach the youth was recently made available here:
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I recommend the following networks, journal, book, and powerpoints:
WORLD FUTURES: Dialogue & Decision Culture
ANTHONY JUDGE: The work of Anthony Judge
"Matters of Consequences".
Please also see the footnote, which makes obvious that we all work on many sit(d)es with different "hats", see from different levels with different angles and realize that living things are hard to "lable", that we should be "out of the box" working in many sectors - on many levels and in different "frames of reality". ENJOY !
graphic and main
Interdisciplinary Conference 2004: The Evolution of World Order - EWOC
Towards one Possible Global Embodied Covenant: Models, - not just Systems, Signs, Words and Images“
IDEC 2006
Topic 1: Dialogue- and Conversation-formats for co-creative and open participation and democracy - Topic 2: Worldmapping and Worldviews: Earth-Literacy, Map & Model Literacy
ANU 2006, Hannover
Earth Literacy & Globales Lernen
and:
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