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 BenkingIndependent 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, Berlin21stCenturyAgora – Open-Forum (PNW & web)

Workshop Sessions Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010

Room 18

Slot 1 - 3

Heiner Benking

Pitsch, Presentations

and Magic

Roundtables

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:

Slot 1Life-Styles and Diets, Energy Efficiency, Water and Soils, Gardening and Architecture

Slot 2Global Commons, Global Compact, Global embodied Covenants, Earth Charter, MDGs, Golden Rule and Shared Frames of References.(includes Maps & Models, Metaphors, Schemas, Icons/Images, Supersigns, Scenarios and Situation Rooms)

Slot 3Participation, Dialog, Deliberation, Policy- and Peacemaking

OPEN-SPACE Grid

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

MARYLAND SEA GRANT COLLEGEftp://ftp.mdsg.umd.edu/MDSG/PUBCAT94.PDF

CARTER LIBRARYhttp://dnrweb.dnr.state.md.us:8080/FullDisp?itemid=00000759

for more see: MADRIGAL SEA

http://benking.de/Global-Change/UN-climate-summit.html

Please return to EARTH IN TROUBLE:

The Problems: • Orientation - missing values, perspectives, proportions and consequences Poor metaphors - focussing on just one monocultural framework • Misguided perspectives - the perspectives that do exist are not based on global knowledge, but on group centered and local experiences • Regions and Nations caught in stalemate misinterpreting the reasons for other groups' opinions blocks at a very basic level any chance of forward movement.

http://benking.de/Global-Change//baeme-rettungsplan.html

Quest for Structured Response tp Growing World-wide Complexities and Uncertainties

1970A PROPOSAL

The Club of Rome - The Predicament of Mankind Early beginnings 1968- 1970

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

Co-Laboratories of DemocracyHow 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.

UN – ECOSOC- AMR 2008: http://www.quergeist.net/AMR-2008/http://www.un.org/ecosoc/newfunct/Responses_in_Full-Part_I.pdf

N) Proposal for Anna-Lindh-Foundation,  European – Mediteranian Countries, Berlin-Alexandria 2008. Transcultural Dialog and Peace-MakingRoundtable 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.

                         

e – DISCUSSION ON ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

"Implementing the internationally agreed goals and commitments in regard to sustainable development".

G lo b a l S ha ring a nd C o ping

S ta rt ing P o ints

HARMONIZATIONThe 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.

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 12Biodiversity and Global Changewww.pt-dlr.de, Nov 2003

How to explain Copenhagen to a comedianMemo to Eugene Mirman

http://www.grist.org/article/2009-12-03-how-to-explain-copenhagen-to-a-comedian Photo illustration / iStock images

Comedian Eugene Mirman is going to Copenhagen for Grist to cover the international climate talks. Eugene is a fairly well-informed guy (he at least scans Google News looking for reviews of his latest album), but he’s the first to admit that he doesn’t live, eat, and smoke climate policy.At his request, the Grist staff threw together a basic cheat sheet on Copenhagen.  It’s overly simplistic. It avoids lots of important details. It’s probably offensive. In short, it’s just enough to help Eugene feign cluefulness when he’s accosting world leaders in Denmark.

• The greatest single achievement of science •

in this most scientifically productive of centuries  •

is the discovery that we are profoundly ignorant; •

we know very little about nature • and understand even less. 

• Lewis Thomas 

We will later show some blind spots - not only in Soils, Oceans, Athmosphere, Social/Cultural/Ecological/Human Systems, but their interaction....

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TAGORE-EINSTEIN COUNCILEighth International Tagore - Einstein ConferenceProgramme during Asian Pacific Weeks in Berlin 15-28. September 2003

Heiner Benking: MAP & MODEL MAKER

http://benking.de/GI/GI-datavisual-1987.html

TAGORE-EINSTEIN COUNCILEighth International Tagore - Einstein ConferenceProgramme during Asian Pacific Weeks in Berlin 15-28. September 2003

http://benking.de/GI/GI-datavisual-1987.html

LINK TO GLOBAL CHANGE EXHIBITION

G lo b a l S ha ring a nd C o ping G L O B A L C HA N G E 1 9 9 0 -9 9

G lobal Sharing and Coping Motivation & Thanks

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”

Lost in Space?

Caught in the Web ?

Found in Space ? In a safety Net?

TKE '99 Terminology and Knowledge Engineering Innsbruck, August 23-27 1999

Using the same references

or co-ordinates

Imaginary Spaces

Eco-CubeBlackbox NatureRubik‘s Cube of

Ecology

GLOBAL LEARN DAY WELCOME TO EUROPE

SUSTAINABLE INFORMATION SOCIETY - VALUES AND EVERYDAY LIFE

"Education" bridging with children sectors and worlds, local and global,... paper prepared for 1993 XIII World Conference of World Futures Studies Federation

FINLAND - TURKU and the WorldHelsingin Sanomat - Finish Weekly with full page color coverage of kids event and a "box" the futurists gathering

Children "KNOWLEDGE SPIRAL" - NEWSLETTER

http://www.ceptualinstitute.com/genre/benking/turku/turku.htm

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 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 Culturehttp://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.

G lo b a l S ha ring a nd C o ping C o nne c ting Wo rlds , S c a le s , Me dia , & F o rm s /S truc ture s

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

LINKING HETEROGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL DATA FOR MULTIPURPOSE APPLICATIONS:

A CONCEPTUAL SUPERSTRUCTUREby

Benking, Heiner, FAW Ulm, GermanyJudge, Anthony J.N., Union of International Associations, Brussels, Belgium; and

Uhlir, Paul, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., USA

Section titles of the original research proposal from 1993

I. A: STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM AND RATIONALE FOR PAPER/CONCEPT1. Increasing complexity of multidimensional problems and resulting need to integrate diverse data and information sources in resolving problems must be: a) disciplinary (all disciplines), b. Intersectorial (gov., industry, academia, public), c) international (even for local or national

problems there are usually some international dimensions)2. Proliferation of databases and digital information at all these levels make finding,

understanding, and using all of the relevant information extremely difficult, if not impossible,3. Numerous barriers to effective integration exist a) Examples...4. Imperative to Overcome these barriersB: STATEMENT OF THE SOLUTION C: ORGANIZATION

II. DESCRIPTION OF CONCEPTA Conceptual Superstructure or Scaffolding ....Other Attempts/ModelsPotential Applications, Examples, Why not worked/have been insufficientWhy this is different

III. POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS, In research, Policymaking, Business Planning, Education,...Examples, Summary, E: Summary of broad applicability

IV. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONCEPT, A:, B: V. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDED ACTIONS

EWOC 04, Toronto, October 2004SYSTEMS ENCYCLOPEDIA

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.

Vol. 22, no. 1 (October 2004)Official Newsletter of the

International Federation of Systems Research

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 languageof concepts and models

Charles FrançoisFounder and Editor of the International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics

Heiner BenkingIndependent Facilitator and Futurist

Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Encyclopaedia of Systems and Cybernetics

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin – BBKBerliner Bibliothekswissenschaftliches Kolloquiums

25. Mai 2004

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Workshop Sessions Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010

Room 18

Slot 1 - 3

Heiner Benking

Pitsch, Presentations

and Magic

Roundtables

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:

Slot 1Life-Styles and Diets, Energy Efficiency, Water and Soils, Gardening and Architecture

Slot 2Global Commons, Global Compact, Global embodied Covenants, Earth Charter, MDGs, Golden Rule and Shared Frames of References.(includes Maps & Models, Metaphors, Schemas, Icons/Images, Supersigns, Scenarios and Situation Rooms)

Slot 3Participation, Dialog, Deliberation, Policy- and Peacemaking

OPEN-SPACE Grid

Post-Script after the GYC-2010

as requestedAfter the presentation of “other” issues will come up.

Further action items will need to include: building industry and energy efficiency, transport and production, local-regional-national-global planning,…

Requiste variety and Fidelity along and across scales… harmonisation, quality, coherence & compliance