GLOBAL LEARN DAY

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The Interdisciplinary Conference The Evolution
of World Order - EWOC Ryerson University,
Toronto, CanadaOctober, 13. - 15., 2004
BERLIN CONTRIBUTIONHEINER BENKING"Towards one
Possible Global Embodied Covenant Models, - not
just Systems, Signs, Words and Images continue
powerpoint for this presentationERIC
SCHNEIDERInformal Sustainability Learning
EnvironmentsThe World Future School Online
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EWOC 04, Toronto, October 2004 Berlin Invited
Visitors
Prof. Roland Reich Free University Berlin Studium
generale Prof. Sunil Sen Gupta Humboldt zu
University (erimitiert) President,
TAGORE-EINSTEIN COUNCIL David MacBryde Yale
University Club, ACUNS Virtual United Nations
Project vun.org
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EWOC 04, Toronto, October 2004 Virtually invited
Partners Friends
JOYPositive Nett-Works Associationwww.future-raf
t.net Jerome C. Glenn American Council of
theUnited Nations University www.acunu.orgAntho
ny JudgeUnion of International
Associationswww.uia.org
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EWOC 04, Toronto, October 2004 by Heiner Benking,
Berlin Tagore-Einstein Council, Open-Forum, PNW,
Towards one possible global embodied Covenant
Models, - not just Systems, Signs, Words and
Images
A work report towards developing shared
models for broader and contextual understanding
and a concert of orienting generalizations for
helping to overcome dualistic traps and include
specialist and generalistic cultural
activities.Heiner Benking Independent
Facilitator and Futurist
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Abstract or Opening Statement
In view of the Global Action Priorities for a
Sustainable Civilization we feel a lack of being
able to share commons in a global knowledge
society. The meso-scale tangible world is
expanding and so we need to agree on common grids
- a global embodied covenant - to outline and
include sign systems (words and images), maps,
languages, in shared common frameworks, embodied
as models. - Orienting generalizations are
proposed to share and negotiate some of the
materially directly not-given or accessible. The
Paper outlines old and new learning approaches -
including old and new media - towards sharing and
merging perspectives and realities and some
projects and proposals for future education
towards these ends.
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EWOC 2004, Toronto, October 2004 Action Items -
To DO list

• A work report, some thoughts,
• and what we should do about
• Maps, Models, and Orienting Geneneralisations
• Lack of Context and Place in a modern
  Cyberculture
• Signs, Turns, Turfs, and the missing shared
  Perspectives
• Dialogue and Decision Cultures
• Ethics and Pragmatics
• Culture Navigation
• Encyclopedia, Atlases, Multi-Media
  bridge-building
• Global Education, like Ecology, History,...

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Kim H. Veltman Learning and Communication with
Old and New Media UNESCO Conference The Unifying
Aspects of Culture, Vienna 2003
Topics of Kim Veltman covered in the last years
include Media as Extensions of Man - World
Views, Theories of Space, Vision and
Representation - Five Changes in the 20th
Century - Relation and Scale - Intangible
and Tangible Culture - Texts as Integrators
of Culture - Rediscovery of Meta-Narratives
- Local-Regional-National-International-Global
- Language as Unique - Challenge of
Different Levels of Distance - Cultural
Activities as an Integrating Path more.... from
TUAC Session Media as Extensions of Man,
World Views, Theories of Space, Vision and
Representation, Five Changes in the 20th Century,
Relation and Scale, Intangible and Tangible
Culture, Texts as Integrators of Culture,
Rediscovery of Meta-Narratives,
Local-Regional-National-International-Global,
Language as Unique, Challenge of Different Levels
of Distance, Cultural Activities as an
Integrating Path, see also
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Kim H. Veltman Learning and Communication with
Old and New Media 10. Cultural actitvities -
Figure 1. Six goals and nine means as
ingredients for a new model of culture
CULTURAL GOALS TECHNOLOGY MEANS 1.Connecting
Pre-literacy 1. Thinking, Mental Sense Making
Mythology Religion Philosophy
2. Ordering 2. Doing, Physical Sense Making
Building Making 3.
Expressing Literature Art
Mathematics 3. Imitating Literacy 3
Representing 4. Matching Print 4.
Expressing Directly
via Written 5. Mixing 5 Translating
Media 6. Exploring 6. Transforming
Media New Media 7. Publishing with Tolerance
8. Sharing 9. Helping
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Heiner Benking Alte und Neue Räume, Ordnungen
und Modelle für Orientierungen und
Vereinbarungen 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 WOR
DS SUBJECTS ICON ICON IMAGE OBJECTS
ACTION Systematic, communicative ETHI
CS PRAGMATICS Jonas /
Stachowiak
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Using Mental Models for Nurturing
Understandingof multicomplex issues like
Globalisation, Cultures and Sustainability
In order to facilitate overview orientation in
sustainability,and to support, develop and
nurture pupils understanding for relations and
cohesion in a globalised world... gtgtgt We utilise
the potentials of imaginary MODELS, develop and
switch between OLD and NEW WORLD-VIEWS...
Eric Schneider / Heiner Benking, EWOC 2004
Presentation
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Mental Architecture Models
Man is a model-making animal (UNESCO 1984)
Context-
Subject- Object-
Spaces
ECO-CUBE and Cognitive Panorama (Benking)
ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT (Ries / Wackernagel)
Dymaxion Map - Operating Manual for SPACESHIP
EARTH (Buckminster Fuller)
WELTHAUS - WORLD HOUSELayout for a sustainable
civilisation, built on the wisdom of 50
culturesin a 6-year process.(Thought Models
team, Baldus and Cronenberg Rangers)
Eric Schneider / Heiner Benking, EWOC 2004
Presentation
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Jump-page to GLOBAL CHANGE and TOPOGRAMM AND
Blackbox NatureCUBE evolution incl. BERGE - UN
- Year of the Mountains, and spacial versus
spatial Knowmap magazine.
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Jump-page to Hamonization, INST and Terminology,
and Ethics/Media issues.
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3 Steps Towards an Orienting Generalisation
1. since 1988 Cognitive Panorama
2. since 1988, respectively 1992 Sign-
Mediaintegration
3. since 1990 resp. 1997 Orientation
Generalization
Action (Warburg) and Ethics (Jonas) demand, as
prerequisite, for an expanded framework of
cohesion and relation for media, cultures,
worlds...
The Panorama as anIndex-Space
See Fig. 1 in Bridges and a Masterplan,
ICSU-CODATA 1992 from ONLINE 92
Has been developed since 1988 as a TOPOGRAM with
a Blackbox Index-Space, 1992 Masterplan CODATA
and 1995 Conceptual Superstructure ICSU
CODATA ISSS Systems Sciences Club of Budapest
1994-1996 Council of Europe meta-paradigm
1996 Knowmap Synopsis 2001 since 1999 Switching
Systems
Index
Icons / Images Symbols
For more see a list of publications relating to
the subjects humanities and cultures, systems,
education, media-integration, technology,
computer graphics, orientation, library-sciences,
cybernetics, environmental research management
(1981-2004).
Icons / Images Symbols
The three sign systems (C.S. Peirce) set in
relation to each other (Knowmap 2001) and
combined with Abby Warburgs Layers in 3.
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Heiner Benking Alte und Neue Räume, Ordnungen
und Modelle für Orientierungen und
Vereinbarungen UNESCO Conference The Unifying
Aspects of Cultures, Vienna 2003
NeoPragmatics Ethics Action
REALIZE PONDER COMMUNICATE ACT
Index - Map or Space
Embodied visual (Schau-Logik) Models for
orienting generalisations (Grob-Orientierung)
Signs, maps, schemas and/or Models !
Icons / Bilder Symbols / Symbole
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ANDERE TAGORE HUB FOLIE
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TAGORE-EINSTEIN COUNCIL Eighth International
Tagore - Einstein Conference Programme during
Asian Pacific Weeks in Berlin 15-28. September
2003
Wanted A Global (Integral) Covenant
Reflections and a work report towards shared
frames of references and visions in a
big-picture overview mode or scaffolding Hein
er Benking
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Die Neuen Medien - Kommunikative Gesellschaft
?Studium generale, Humboldt - Universität zu
Berlin 17.1. 2000

• Crisis of
• Order, Orientation, Meaning,...

Watch your Symbols, Icons, Words, Metaphors,
Worlds,... ? a prison ? a varieté ? a show ?
a labyrinth ? a bomb ? a sweet pie ? the final
flood of post- modern Cyber Culture ?
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GLOBAL LEARN DAY WELCOME TO EUROPE
Finding distance and perspective or feeling lost
in the woods and afraid of walls?
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Premier forum des solutions pour développement
des musées et expositiones Journée Access
Multimedia 17. - 18. Novembre 1998 - Cité des
Sciences et de lIndustrie
No covenant in modern times Many Portals -
but no Common House
Source http//pespmc1.vub.ac.be/macroscope/ Magn
etic Portals Information Strategy Magazine,
July/August 1998
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JUMP_PAGE HUB Kommunikative Gesellschaft Medien,
Cyberculture, SIS Kouvola, PTOLEMY,...
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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
See Extensions und work-places of the mind
and Jean Gebser Only the concrete can be
integrated.
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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
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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
These are only 30 (out of 60) powerpoint slides
as presented at the EARTH CHARTA OPEN -
SPACE and available during the conference
Global Ecological Integrity, Human Rights, and
Human Responsibilities After this selection you
find 2 hyperlinked slides which were written
ad-hoc directly before the session to invite
further explorations and digging deeper into
areas of interest
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EWOC 04, Toronto, October 2004 Action Items.
Some recommended resources
Re-inventing Democracy 1995- 2004 and Dialogue
and Decision Culture (World Futures) 2004 Towards
a Global Embodied Covenant, Urbino 2002 Space,
Signs, Media, Orienting Generalizations
2003 Global Change 1990 Show or Schau ?
1999 OLD AND NEW LEARNING, MEDIA AND
CONVERSATION, The unifying aspects of culture
Vienna 2003 Veltman OldNew media Quo vadis
Geosciences ? (1991) Cybernetics ? (2003) -
Humanity ? (forthcoming, see DRAFT) Entries in
Intern. Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics,
2004 I recommend www.benking.de directories
/education/ /culture/ /dialog/
/models/ /Global-Change/
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Models and think-models

Herbert Stachowiak, 1965 - 2004 see next
slide Man is a model making animal His
outstanding predictive powers give him selective
advantages. Models of Reality - Shaping
Thougths and Action Richardson, Marx, and Toth
Cronenberger Ranger Frank Baldus, et. al.
2002 und Weltbilder-Welthäuser Baldus - Benking
2003
UNESCO, 1984
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Model Thinking Pragmatics Herbert Stachowiak
1965 - 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 s.a. Quergeist
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EWOC 04, Toronto, October 2004 SYSTEMS
ENCYCLOPEDIA
Vol. 22, no. 1 (October 2004)
Official Newsletter of the International
Federation of Systems Research
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.
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EWOC 04, Toronto, October 2004 Credits Thanks

• Credits Acknowledgements more see here
  
• Herbert Stachowiak
• Alfred Schinz
• Ingetraut Dahlberg
• Mark Davidson
• Nadia Saad
• Kim Veltman
• Copthorne Mcdonald
• Margaret Mead

• Margaret Mead
• Elisabeth Mann-Borgese
• Michael Gagern
• Charles Francois
• John McConnel
• Franz Nahrada
• Flemming Funch
• Lynton Caldwell

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