GLOBAL LEARN DAY

1

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
2

EWOC 04, Toronto, October 2004 Berlin Invited
Virtual 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
3

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 Positive Nett-Works,
Tagore-Einstein Council, Open-Forum
4

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.
5

EWOC 04, Toronto, October 2004 Action Items. by
Heiner Benking, Berlin Tagore-Einstein Council,
Open-Forum, PNW,

• 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 bridgebilding
• Global Education, like Ecology, History,...

6
Kim H. Veltman Learning and Communication with
Old and New Media UNESCO Conference Das
Verbindende der Kulturen, Vienna 2003
1. Introduction 2. Media as Extensions of
Man 3. World Views, Theories of Space, Vision
and Representation 4. Five Changes in the
20th Century 5. Relation and Scale 6.
Intangible and Tangible Culture 7. Texts as
Integrators of Culture 8. Rediscovery of
Meta-Narratives 9. Local-Regional-National-Inte
rnational-Global 10. Language as Unique 11.
Challenge of Different Levels of Distance 2.
Cultural Activities as an Integrating Path 13.
Conclusions
7
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
8
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 PRAG
MATICS ETHICS Jonas/Stachowiak
9
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 WORLDVIEWS...
Eric Schneider / Heiner Benking, EWOC 2004
Presentation
10
Mental Architecture Models
Man is a model-making animal (UNESCO 1984)
ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT (Ries / Wackernagel)
ECO-CUBE and Cognitive Panorama (Heiner Benking)
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, Cronenberg Rangers)
Eric Schneider / Heiner Benking, EWOC 2004
Presentation
11
3 StepsTowards an Orientation Generalization
1. since 1988 Cognitive Panorama
2. since 1988, respectively 1992 Sign- and
Media- integration
3. since 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 Index-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
Icons / Images Symbols
A number of publications has appeared in the
humanities, education, media-integration,
orientation, library, cybernetics, environmental
management since 1990. LINK to events.
The three sign systems (C.S. Peirce) set in
relation to each other (Knowmap 2001) and
combined with Abby Warburgs Layers in 3.
12
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 Models
Icons / Bilder Symbols / Symbole
13


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
14
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 ?
15
.
GLOBAL LEARN DAY WELCOME TO EUROPE
Finding distance and perspective or feeling lost
in the woods and afraid of walls?
16

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
17

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.
18


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
19


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
20

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/
21
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
22

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
23

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.
24

EWOC 04, Toronto, October 2004 Berlin Invited
Visitors

• Credits
• Stachowiak
• Nadia Saad
• Margaret Mead
• Elisabeth Mann-Brogese
• John McConnel
• Franz Nahrada
• Flemming Funch
• Lynton Caldwell

25
http//mattersofconsequence.com/MOCfig2.html http
//mattersofconsequence.com/index.html