1. 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 1
Life-Styles and Diets, Energy Efficiency,
Water and Soils, Gardening and
Architecture
Slot 2
Global 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 3
Participation, Dialog, Deliberation, Policy-
and Peacemaking
OPEN-SPACE Grid
3. How to explain Copenhagen to a comedian
Memo 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.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9. SOILS and HUMUS
see as a started this new FILM (2009)
Humus - Forgotten climate aid - The
implications are immense, see also the
Ignorance statement in the beginning of
this presentation, BioChar and Terra
Preta. and another You Tube clip
Biochar - agrichar - Terra Preta.
12. 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
Breaking Down New Walls
10th Annual Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Berlin, November, 9-11 2009
• 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
•….
13. [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 ?
14. 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
*
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).
Friedrich Rückert
Die Weisheit des Brahmanen,
ein Lehrgedicht in Bruchstücken
Werke, Band 2, Leipzig und Wien
[1897], S. 50-51.
Breaking Down New Walls
10th Annual Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Berlin, November, 9-11 2009
Interview, Panel-Discussion, ….
16. 1. To create knowledge in a spirit of openness to the world,
integrating new perspectives
1. To think and act in a forward looking manner
2. To acquire knowledge and act in an
interdisciplinary manner
3. To be able to plan and act in cooperation with
others
4. To be able to participate in decision-making
processes
5. To be able to motivate others to become active
6. To be able to reflect upon one’s own principles
and those of others
7. To be able to plan and act autonomously
8. To be able to show empathy for and solidarity
with the disadvantaged
9. To be able to motivate oneself to become active
Gestalt(ungs) – Competences
Education for
Sustainable Development
17. Gestaltungskompetenz 1 & 7
To create knowledge in a spirit
of openness to the world,
integrating new perspectives
1.
7.
To be able to reflect upon
one’s own principles and
those of others
18.
19. Kurt Hanks, OUT OF THE BOX THINKING
see: Creating a Driving Vision (PDF)
and Getting out of THE BOX
23. Global Ecological Integrity, Human Rights, and Human Responsibilities:
Intersections Between International Law and Public Health, 2003, June 27- July 1,
&
Open Space, The Earth Charter in Action, June 26- 30, Urbino, Italy
Ecological Integrity, Democracy,
Governance, and Education:
THE NEED and A WORK-REPORT
towards an embodied Covenant
Heiner Benking
Independent Futurist and Facilitator
24. http://21stcenturyagora.org/ http://www.globalagoras.org/
Co-Laboratories of Democracy
How Co-Laboratories
Of Democracy Work
Problematic Situation
• Discover root causes;
• Adopt consensual action plans:
• Develop teams dedicated to
implementing those plans; and
• Generate lasting bonds of
respect, trust, and cooperation.
25. We lost 1 Decade ?
NO !!
we lost > 4 Decades !!
WHY ?
26. 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....
29. BBK - Berliner Bibliotheks-wissenschaftliches
Kolloqium 25. Mai 2004
Introducing the
2nd edition of the
International
Encyclopaedia
of Systems and
Cybernetics
Charles François, Heiner Benking
PLEASE VISIT: http://www.open-forum.de/encyclopedia-pragmatics/
http://benking.de/systems/encyclopedia/concepts-and-models.htm
30. THE INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF SYSTEMS AND CYBERNETICS
SECOND EDITION
Charles François (editor), KG Saur, München, 2004
Updated and augmented in more than 740 pages, 1700 articles,
some of them with figures, tables and diagrams,
and 1500 bibliographical references.
Please see these presentations at the introduction of the 2nd
Edition:
Maybe start with slide # 3. Charles François and the need for
another language
and the work on a Cognitive Panorama and Cognitive Spaces for
multi-perspective orientation in the Encyclopedia and a Global
Embodied Covenant to share positions, perspectives, and mind-sets,
and what this means for modern media, sign systems and systemic,
holistic thinking.
34. See some more recommended links::
HARMONIZATION, Information about Information, not meta-data, but meta-information, and
Access and Assimilation/Understanding. 1989-1992
ICSU-CODATA 1992 & 95 & 2005 see Bridges and a Masterplan, …
NAS NRC 1993
WORLDBANK – WPC and this BLOG overview link.
GRAND CHALLENGES TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
POLITICS AND LIFE SCIENCES – IS HUMANITY Destined? – Show or Schau?
THE FUTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
UN AMR 2008
35. "Values in Isolation are like facts in isolation,
they are meaningless !
The facts alone are meaningless.
Only when they appear
at the end of a destructive chain
do they take on richness, perspective, and
significance“.
Henry Margenau, OPEN VISTAS
36. [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 ?
37. 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
Interactive relations among hierarchically ordered subsystems
of an organism, Inscribed Domains, P. Weiss,
In: Beyond reductionism, Alpbach 1968, pls. see more: IFSR - ISSS
38. The Need for a Paradigm Shift
•The step from Environmental Protection (Rio) to
Sustainable Development (Johannesburg) implies
a threefold shift of perspective, or paradigm shift:
l From sectorial thinking to systems thinking
l From deficit/problem to resource
l From knowledge to competence
Dr. Ueli Nagel, Zurich University of Teacher Education
40. "Values in Isolation are like facts in isolation,
they are meaningless !
The facts alone are meaningless.
Only when they appear
at the end of a destructive chain
do they take on richness, perspective, and
significance“.
Henry Margenau, OPEN VISTAS
41. 1. To create knowledge in a spirit of openness to the world,
integrating new perspectives
1. To think and act in a forward looking manner
2. To acquire knowledge and act in an
interdisciplinary manner
3. To be able to plan and act in cooperation with
others
4. To be able to participate in decision-making
processes
5. To be able to motivate others to become active
6. To be able to reflect upon one’s own principles
and those of others
7. To be able to plan and act autonomously
8. To be able to show empathy for and solidarity
with the disadvantaged
9. To be able to motivate oneself to become active
Gestalt(ungs) – Competences
Education for
Sustainable Development
42. Gestaltungskompetenz 1 & 7
To create knowledge in a spirit
of openness to the world,
integrating new perspectives
1.
7.
To be able to reflect upon
one’s own principles and
those of others
43. Kurt Hanks, OUT OF THE BOX THINKING
see: Creating a Driving Vision (PDF)
and Getting out of THE BOX
47. Thinking/Reasoning learning room in Enlightenment Pedagogics
DENK-LEHRRAUM der Aufklärungspädagogik !
Ecological Theology and Environmental Ethics
48. GLOBAL LEARN DAY
WELCOME TO EUROPE
• real spaces
perceptual
__________________________________
• concept spaces
conceptual
http://www.meta-self.com
http://ceptualinstitute/genre/
benking/borderland.htm
Why not think the thing deep,
take space real and serious,
enjoy and play in spaces,
make spaces places which
can help making sense,
and ease understanding ?
Sharing & bridging realities
49. Ecological Theology and Environmental Ethics
Otto Schärli 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.
50. Global Sharing and Coping
Connecting Worlds, Scales, Media, & Forms/Structures
51. [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 ?
52. 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
*
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).
Friedrich Rückert
Die Weisheit des Brahmanen,
ein Lehrgedicht in Bruchstücken
Werke, Band 2, Leipzig und Wien
[1897], S. 50-51.
Breaking Down New Walls
10th Annual Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Berlin, November, 9-11 2009
Interview, Panel-Discussion, ….
53. 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
Breaking Down New Walls
10th Annual Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Berlin, November, 9-11 2009
• 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
•….
55. Gestaltungskompetenz 1 & 7
To create knowledge in a spirit
of openness to the world,
integrating new perspectives
1.
7.
To be able to reflect upon
one’s own principles and
those of others
56. Global Ecological Integrity, Human Rights, and Human Responsibilities:
Intersections Between International Law and Public Health, 2003, June 27- July 1,
&
Open Space, The Earth Charter in Action, June 26- 30, Urbino, Italy
Ecological Integrity, Democracy,
Governance, and Education:
THE NEED and A WORK-REPORT
towards an embodied Covenant
Heiner Benking
Independent Futurist and Facilitator
57. Possible elements for a more tangible, practical, and feasible shared Global Learning
Elements needed for a different ways of
(GLOBAL) learning and shared action and consensus building
PRE-REQUISIT: Space (tangible=dimensionality and immersion) in
multi-dimensional multi-sectorial realms
MODEL THINKING: (also making use of cognitive spaces).
MAPS and (mental) MODELS to provide collectively explorable
tangible spaces for multi-media and sign integration, multi-modal
thinking and shared cognitive models, see super-signs and meta-
models. See, Systems and Model (tangible pragmatics, Culture vs.
Cyberculture.
OUTLINE (CONTEXT) -bounds and PATTERN -matching
thinking on different levels of details or granularity. See
Global Covenant and general comparative studies
DIALOG & DECISION CULTURE
see also extended version of the bullets above
and a GLOSSAR indispensable for immersing into the approaches presented
58. My Topic – My Concern – My Offer to the Group:
SPEAKER or PITCHER: NAME
Participants:
Vegetarianism:
Essential to Save the Planet?
Dec. 13th, 2009
Open Forum Open Space
Veg Climate Alliance
Copenhagen Workshop
59. Why Democratic Dialogue?
• Motivations (just a few):
• Increasing complexity & globalization of issues
• Increasing interconnectedness (systems thinking)
– e.g. Global warming as a symptom: How do we reach
agreement on root causes for action?
• Need for citizen participation in public institutions
• Weakness of citizens vs. corporations in civil
issues
– Not knowing how to make the most difference
• Breakdown of media communications, distrust
60. • Socratic Dialogue
• Gadamer’s hermeneutic dialogue
• Habermas’ Communicative Action
• Bohm’s “collective meaning”
• Bakhtin’s dialogical imagination
• Freire’s dialogue in education & social action
• Facilitated dialogue, Art of Hosting
• Talking Stick – World Cafe
• Structured Dialogue – Dialogic Design
• Magic Roundtables
How we Dialogue
61. Re-inventing Democracy with generative and disciplined
transdisciplinary – intergenerational – 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/
http://open-forum.de/Dialogue_and_DecisionCulture.html
http://www.benking.de/dialog/dialog-among-civilizations.htm
62. http://hubberlin.wordpress.com/ http://berlin.the-hub.net
The Hub Berlin
a space for people with good ideas for the world.
HUB Sustainability Week 2009
http://benking.de/open-forum/OF_Background_paper_4.htm
http://benking.de/open-forum/OF_Backgroundpapers/
The graph and some links were developed around the Leadership
Development Dialog and Diversity site and initiative from the late
90ies: http://open-forum.de/guide2dialog-VUMC--1999.htm
So let us check below some hurdles and barriers we have to
address which prevent us from reaching the objectives of :
Suspend Certainty
Seek to Expand the Questions
Grow Ideas Rather Than Take a Position
Listen to Your Listening
Be Open Rather Than Attaching to Outcomes
63.
64.
65.
66.
67.
68. Getting the Whole System
in the Room for convergence
and action.
Bertalanffy‘s 100th
69.
70. B E P RE P ARE D
T O B E
S URP RIS E D
Open-Forum Open-Space
72. SYNTHESIS and Call for Shared Action:
Challenges / Orientations and Lessons Learned
and Participation Opportunities and Options
Heiner Benking
Journalist, long-time experience with global issues, event planning, strategy advising
Secretary of the Council of Global Issues and the Tagore-Einstein Council
Vegetarianism: Essential to Save the Planet? Sunday, Dec 13th, Copenhagen UNFCCC COP 15
73. Vegetarianism: Essential to Save the Planet? Sunday, Dec 13th, Copenhagen UNFCCC COP 15
PLEASE NOTE:
´This slides are a resource prepared for the CopenVegan side-event and further
events which took place in Copenhagen in December 2009
Each slide will be explained in a tour presently under construction.
Please wait for a week or more.. Deadline, Jan 1st
, 2010
The lecture, as a whole or in sections will be available at this website:
http://vegclimatealliance.org/site-event-COP15
and
http://weturn.org/CopenVegan-Alliance-site-event-COP15/
74. Ashok Khosla, Founder,
Development Alternatives
Canada – India
Founder , India's Office of
Environmental Planning
& Coordination
President, IUCN
Co-President, Club of Rome
…..
75. Gestaltungskompetenz 1 & 7
To create knowledge in a spirit
of openness to the world,
integrating new perspectives
1.
7.
To be able to reflect upon
one’s own principles and
those of others
76. BBK - Berliner Bibliotheks-wissenschaftliches
Kolloqium 25. Mai 2004
Introducing the
2nd edition of the
International
Encyclopaedia
of Systems and
Cybernetics
Charles François, Heiner Benking
PLEASE VISIT: http://www.open-forum.de/encyclopedia-pragmatics/
http://benking.de/systems/encyclopedia/concepts-and-models.htm
77. THE INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF SYSTEMS AND CYBERNETICS
SECOND EDITION
Charles François (editor), KG Saur, München, 2004
Updated and augmented in more than 740 pages, 1700 articles,
some of them with figures, tables and diagrams,
and 1500 bibliographical references.
Please see these presentations at the introduction of the 2nd
Edition:
Maybe start with slide # 3. Charles François and the need for
another language
and the work on a Cognitive Panorama and Cognitive Spaces for
multi-perspective orientation in the Encyclopedia and a Global
Embodied Covenant to share positions, perspectives, and mind-sets,
and what this means for modern media, sign systems and systemic,
holistic thinking.
79. 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
84. 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....
85. Gestaltungskompetenz 1 & 7
To create knowledge in a spirit
of openness to the world,
integrating new perspectives
1.
7.
To be able to reflect upon
one’s own principles and
those of others
86. 1. To create knowledge in a spirit of openness to the world,
integrating new perspectives
1. To think and act in a forward looking manner
2. To acquire knowledge and act in an
interdisciplinary manner
3. To be able to plan and act in cooperation with
others
4. To be able to participate in decision-making
processes
5. To be able to motivate others to become active
6. To be able to reflect upon one’s own principles
and those of others
7. To be able to plan and act autonomously
8. To be able to show empathy for and solidarity
with the disadvantaged
9. To be able to motivate oneself to become active
Gestalt(ungs) – Competences
Education for
Sustainable Development
87. Kurt Hanks, OUT OF THE BOX THINKING
see: Creating a Driving Vision (PDF)
and Getting out of THE BOX
91. Thinking/Reasoning learning room in Enlightenment Pedagogics
DENK-LEHRRAUM der Aufklärungspädagogik !
Ecological Theology and Environmental Ethics
92. 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
Source: Limits to Growth, Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers
& William W. Behrens III, Potomac Associates, New York (1972)
pls. see also The Club of Rome - The Predicament of Mankind, 1970
Subtitle of Fig 1: Although the perspectives of the
world's people vary in space and time, every human
concern falls somewhere on the space time graph.
The majority of the world's people are concerned
with matters that effect only family or friends
over a short period of time.
Others look far ahead in time or over a large area - a
city or a nation. Only few people have
a perspective that extends far into the future.
*
Later we can read in the book: that in contrast to the
majorities focus in the quadrant in the lower left
“box”, the book concerns itself with the upper
right quadrant or “box”.
93. 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
Interactive relations among hierarchically ordered subsystems
of an organism, Inscribed Domains, P. Weiss,
In: Beyond reductionism, Alpbach 1968, pls. see more: IFSR - ISSS
94. GLOBAL LEARN DAY
WELCOME TO EUROPE
• real spaces
perceptual
__________________________________
• concept spaces
conceptual
http://www.meta-self.com
http://ceptualinstitute/genre/
benking/borderland.htm
Why not think the thing deep,
take space real and serious,
enjoy and play in spaces,
make spaces places which
can help making sense,
and ease understanding ?
Sharing & bridging realities
95. Ecological Theology and Environmental Ethics
Otto Schärli 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.
96. G loba l S ha ring a nd C oping
C onne c ting Worlds , S c a le s , Me dia , &
F orm s /S truc ture s
97.
98. 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 1
Life-Styles and Diets, Energy Efficiency,
Water and Soils, Gardening and
Architecture
Slot 2
Global 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 3
Participation, Dialog, Deliberation, Policy-
and Peacemaking
OPEN-SPACE Grid