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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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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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  I was much concerned the automobile and automation in the early 80ies. Little has changed over the last 30 years. Our industry is not looking for perspectives for iteself, humanity and a sustainable planet. Narrow shortsighted tactics hinder longview, big-picture strategies. So we are waiting for sound solutions these and other industries. As I wrote in this blog at share-holder meeting of Daimler-Benz-Mercedes. It was like a deja-vue when share holders where asking for a change in policy and direction. The picture of the Chinese government asking in 1992, nearly 18 years ago, the same questions to the automobil, transport and building sector insdustry. That time, like today, nothing seems much different. Some look long distance, the others short-sighted for direct return and personal objectives.
Do we need more wake-up calls to make us look into positions, perspectives, values, orientations, and co-existences ??
I have just visited GM's Global Operations. As you can see the site is not yet updated, but only the list of international subsidiarties, but also the grid needs to be revisited ! As long as their map show greenland and africa having equal-area on their map - which means think about Siberia is if you take your equal-area glasses on !! I wonder how we can have a fair view onto Planet Earth, and how groups like GM can come to appreciate the area of a market in relation to purchasing power, the number of people per square kilomaeter, and other local conditions....
Have a look on erlier blog entries about earth literacy and map-analaphabetism and check the map of today and come back later to the world-view underlaying the public and corporate reason in the US and elsewhere...
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  McPlanet this year is about very deep and tricky questions: What should we do when we eat up the whole planet? or leave it in the hands of a few. Should we reboot the system in times of multiple crisis? Is this a crisis of norms, values, our ways to analyze, imagine, communicate, present? or share, care and dare to confront issues and challenges as the same time? A multiple Crisis, or a multi-modal, many facetted crisis ??, a multiple crisis? Is shock a good treatment? as proposed by some as a "wake-up" call !?
I WONDER - having met Naomi Klein and have read and discussed with her some books and needed concerns and actions .... - how to leapfrog this dilemma of fear and dis-empowerment, not development but belittling important individual and common concerns...
The question in the article below is what to do, pragmatics and ethics, and how to address the root or driver probems, like how to overcome the fight over words, find ways of co-existence and co-creation without the compulsion to make others agree, and come to listening and sharing "modes" - not to experiment with back to "square one" demagogic drives, as the issue is not to restart an engine in operation, but check the metaphors and images we use, AND care for living things, greater goods and what we inflict onto others. Please read more also about dialog and decision cultures and a much need art of the arts: wise communication and good governance. (more)
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  Daimler Annual Meeting of Daimler - futures, personalities, perspectives, positionalities, proportions and consequences ...
I am reporting today from the Daimler Annual Meeting held on April 8, 2009, at the Messe Berlin, in Berlin, Germany. For me it is like a déjà-vu of topics dear to me in the nearly 80ies as a management consultant here at the ICC when it was just opened here in Berlin and we had the WCGA looking into visualisation and mangement, and in the early 90thwhen we were with UN stateplanners in Beijing and were discussing national and sectoral strategies for countries and how to bring appropriate technologies for the building and transportation sectors to anchor countries and "developing" countries!
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 Outcomes from the Bonn Unesco-DESD, the UN FCCC and the economic Crisises summits in London overshadowing what it means for and beyond "you" and "me".
This week the City of Bonn of in a state of emergency and axiety, the UN city experienced "hands-on" how the different focus and priorities of all these different sectors and agendas, an experience you can make if you are lucky on a daily basis in New York, Geneva, Paris.
In the press rooms in Bonn you learned that the climate conference is leaving out education and the educators were blamed to ignore climate or economy (just an example).
This is the old story of the blind men and the elephant: all are right and in the wrong when being to attached to their focus and having to picture of the "situation", even avoiding certain words as this would distract and destabilize our sweet isolation. An example: it was impossible to get the word Crisis into UN documents, manifestos and declarations, as "crisis" like in "Climate Crisis" or "Economic Crisis" was excluded from the official vocabulary and so out of sight - but also out of mind and reality?
At Unesco's "Education for Sustainable Development" decade half-time gathering it was great to be with "cultured" people and see with educators how to possibly bridge natural, cultural, lingual diversities and search for ways to broaden public awareness and learners understanding of the environment and how action can help to safe and restore a heavily impacted nature by the human "footprint" [more]
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  Today at EARTH DAY at EQUINOX we start a campaign towards more meaningful and tangible education and caring for the Commons.
It is part of a series of side event taking place locally and concerted globally since some years. See History and visit the Symposion page. Pls. come back later as we are now going to ring the PEACE BELL for EARTH DAY at Equinox.
Later the week we include the UNESCO- DESD, March 31. - April 3. in Bonn, Germany. Stay tuned, and please follow the links !
Here is the annoucement and invitation: see [more] below:
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   Berlin is vibrant as ever, yesterday was the opening of Cinema for Peace at the Berlinale and Mikhail Gorbachev was there to remember 20 years ago when the wall came down, and his "new thinking" request. We discussed later at the press conference if we not still have this chism of East-West, Good-Bad, Capitalism-Socialism in our minds, in our ways we think and act. Mikhail Gorbachev called it a human-made TRAP which humanity seems to be doomed to create, but also saw some change in politics and our mindsets ! - and presented his Green-Cross foundation is making differences.
Later we discused engineering blueprints and architectural designs, not for building the other trap-dilemmas, but to more comprehensively connect old and new designs and vision. I showed to some collegues our work on "orientation frames" for education and capacity buiding. see here the discussion, coverage, and picking up of his "new thinking" for nearly 20 years as well.... see: "old" Club of Budapest Viewsletter.
Mikhail Gorbachev told us also how he encountered Reagan, how he made shure they talked on the same level, on "equal footing", and so stared a new era of going beyond "empire" and mono uni-lateralism to a multi-polar and mult-lateral world. Is this a new or old, as a vision or reality...?
Thinking about the Thinking Learning Spaces in the "Age of Engightenment" and workshops on "Out of the Box Thinking" and "Paradigm Mapping" we do I decided to make it back to the glamour and celebrities today.
Last night was the "Gala" at the Konzerthaus, Gendarmenmarkt. Impressive people, but also lots of glammor, glitter, and vanity.
On the ohter hand I was impressed by Ben Kingsley, Hans-Dietrich Gentscher who helped us remember the Berlin Wall comming down 20 years ago and which last not least Michael Gorbatschow played to make a difference to cold war. Ben Kingsley mention in his speech announcing Gorbi, that he had mentioned politician who had only their "sectores" in there mind and that is not making peace, but confrontation and war. Gorbi told us to step out of the box !! Documentation and more can be found here: www.cinemaforpeace.com
Please also visit www.9-d.org were I report on how to leave the boxes and avoid traps. First in our thinking and concepts and then through sahring and negotiating transforming it to shared visions and actions.
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   I was just reading about an Event in Greenland in July 2009. I was puzzled, when looking for hotels as this is a mayor event needing lots of attention and visitors, searching for locations of International Hotels, that on the worldmap of the Maritim Hotels, there is no Greenland on the map! So no bed- no lodging for the project!?
I have seen not only worldmaps with 2 Greenlands before, so I seldom see somethng new, but no map and twice a day yet, without this incredible large Greenland, can it disappear when the ice melts ? So here my 2nd surprise map:
Shoked I was when in my monthly journalists journal, I find another such map, a worldmap without Greenland ! It is done by Journalists without Borders ! an active, conscious organisation, so why should they confuse the world by thinking and displaying it instead of "without boundaries", "without certain islands" ??
My feeling it that this is ignorance and negligence: ... [more]
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  more soon ! about:
Agrohttp://www.aebiom.org/newsletter/September_October2007/EC_pressrelease.pdffuels or Solar Energy: Bridge or Crutsch? (Brücke oder Krücke)
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http://www.eurosolar.de/en/
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   A Forum, Market/Mall, Museum, Bauhütte, Bürgerturm or Extraterritorial Space in Borderland ?
Stretching and Squeezing the Agora – The castle-forum in Berlin, a new shopping mall behind old facades?
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YES WE CAN - but how do we elect what and when and what does it mean to democracy, how Elections Strategies are Obamas architect David Plouffe here: [link]
This piece is on the 2008 US election strategies in the light of my experience with the election change analysis visualisation efforts (Wahlwanderschaftsanalyse) in Germany in the 80ies. (INFAS at that time and how I was involved with visualizing and mapping).
Maybe start here on how to present complex matters, how that might help to make more transparent complex, dynamic, multi-secoral, multi-level issues and the proportions and consequences connected to it, and how such "insights" are used and misused:
[link] - sld009.htm I need to frame this properly as this will have tremendous effect on our democracies. I would really love to see how far David Plouffe already moved towards what we called situation rooms in the late 8oies, early nineties.
Maybe I should make an old script available:
H. Steffen, H. Benking; Computer Graphics for the Processing, Analysis and Output of Corporate and Market Data, Berlin, CAMP 85 and H. Benking; Präsentation und Technik, INFOGRAFIK 3/87 a good round-up can be found here:
Possibilities and Limitations (Challenges) of Data-Visualisation with Computer Graphics ... - Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Datenpräsentation durch Computergrafik ... , Informatik im Umweltschutz, Springer Verlag, 1987 [link]
The frame of reference? see the Cognitive Panorama and the Cognitive Spaces overlap here: [link]
Please check the link above and come back as I feel I should work on this.
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   "CHANGE HAS COME TO AMERICA" - THE WORLD REACTS [link] I read in Uffington Press Blog. But how about Africa and the rest?
I was pleased to hear Bishop Tutu speak up and was congratulating. MY hope would be to revisit AFRICA BEYOND POVERTY. Lots of work done between 1993 and 1995 with strong support from Bishop Tutu but also the Finish and Dutch governments, and also revisit not just "footprints", but proportions and consequences.
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   last weekend - exhausting to the very end Berlin groofed around the 2nd VISION SUMMIT at the Berlin Free University.
The theme? Social corporate, corporate environmental, or cultural, economic, historic responsibility,... I lost track. pls. excuse....
Here we report about Mahammed Yunnus, but ALSO Genscher, Geissler, Alt, Spiegel,... (more] ? [link]
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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 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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