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3 to 6 June 2008 Chania, Ecological Theology and Environmental
Ethics http://benking.de/wholeness/EcoTHEE2008.htm European Journal of Science and
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Humans as
Model-Makers
and In-Betweeners
Exploring
& Linking & Negotiating
Old and New Realities,
Representations, and Cosmologies
A quest for
using the human potential for sharing and in-betweening
by
using maps and models and old and new forms of reality-making, dialogue and
decision cultures towards a shared embodied covenant
Heiner Benking, Tagore-Einstein Council, Council
on Global Issues, Open-Forum
David MacBryde,
The paper first revisits maps and models, and ways
such constructs have been used in different cultures and belief systems. Maps
can enable communication about geographical position and orientation, but can
additionally enable communication about paths, goals and alternatives also in
extended senses (e.g. flow charts of processes or structural charts showing
relations among different aspects of an undertaking).
We then explore ways to extend that use, both the
scales and the contents covered, and in particular by developing common frames
of reference with a view to assisting communications among otherwise disparate
points of view.
The construction of “common frames of reference” is a
key method in extending “maps” to become “conceptual commons, common cognitive
spaces”.
The use of schemas or maps
(with agreed upon scales and rules of map construction) is common to all
cultures.
We revisit order-schemas or
cosmologies in different cultures, looking into how they are used to
communicate meanings and values and provide a discursive, communicative “frame”
that makes sense.
Some cultures have created
conceptual commons which go beyond lists of words, using imaginary depictions
and models to relate issues, problem areas and solutions. Important in our
context is that they can assist with sense making and help capacity building in
participatory, dialogic process.
We explore ways to expand the boundaries and the range
of issues we can display, embody and participatorily negotiate and change. We
can add and negotiate frames in “common spaces” which include other sign
systems, different scales, as well as additional thematic and media dimensions.
References:
Please check-out these links http://quergeist.info/bamberg2007.htm http://benking.de/systems/oikos-bamberg-Dateien/frame.htm ( it is about oikos – ecumene- ecodomy or spaces and secret spaces ) or these more
technical or more genral presentation: http://quergeist.net/AMR-2008/
http://benking.de/ISSS/ISSS-Primer-wholeness.html http://benking.de/systems/encyclopedia/newterms/ http://www.ceptualinstitute.com/genre/benking/aizu/aizu98.htm http://benking.de/systems/codata/CODATA-MIST2005-ppt-s_files/frame.htm http://benking.de/systems/codata/CODATA-MIST2005.htm www.benking.de/covenant/ and maybe ask questions SKYPE
heiner.benking or heiner /ADD/
benking.de. I will work in April-May on
the full version, so maybe you can wait for the event in June?