Codata mist2005

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

Please note:
This is only the POWERPOINT section with reference to
SuperSigns and SuperStructures
(after a short introduction and orientation section)
The other part of the CODATA - MIST 2005 presentation with the focus on:
Maps and Models
was taken from the CODATA – ISGI 2005
which took also place in BERLIN the week before. Pls. see next slide.
Please note also:
The collection of overheads without audio is not very helpful. Pls.
Come later to find the full „multi-media“ presentation on the web.
The following slides might help only for a first impression and as a
reference to follow the links.
Maybe see the abstract for the relevance for the future of
multi-media and the CODATA MIST 2005 recommendations from
all Participants (chief editor Nahum Gershon).

Granularity, Topicality, and Generalizatio
Reflections about maps and models, orienting
generalizations and their possible pragmatic and
ethical implications and challenges
Heiner Benking
International Symposium on the
Generalization of Information
International ICSU-CODATA Symposium Berlin, Sept 14-16, 2005
ICSU - International Council of Scientific Unions
CODATA- Committee on Data for Science and Technology
in cooperation with International Cartographic Association ICA
and the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Berlin, PTB.

The next 12 slides
Presenting the work of the author in the field of visualization and geo- and
environmental applications are used to focus on color, multi-dimensional and
transdiciplinary applications, - communication and work-reports from these
fields, and which assumptions like need for generalization and big-picture
overview perspectives needed to tackle the issues and address future
challenges.
So maybe skip the next 12 slides and immediately jump to:
SUPERSIGNS AND SUPERSTRUCTURES - NOW !

European Commission MEDICI FrameworkEuropean Commission MEDICI Framework 13.- 20. March 2002
Welcome to the Future
„There is to our knowledge
nothing similar to the
synchronoptic world history
of Arno Peters“
(1952)
"Es gibt unseres Wissens keine
Parallele zu Arno Peters'
Synchronoptischer
Weltgeschichte.
(1952) http://www.
zweitausendeins.de/
Peters/Presse.htm (2001)
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/
inhalt/buch/4788/1.html
http://www.hyperhistory.com
HYPER HISTORY & Reference Rooms
„Die Sichbarmachung des Gleichzeitigen“ – „Visualizing the
Concurrent“

Premier forum des solutions pour développement des musées et expositiones - Journée Access Multimedia
17. - 18. Novembre 1998 - Cité des Sciences et de l‘Industrie
Central Issues include:
„ Culture and Cyberculture
„ Frontiers and Challenges of
Conceptual Navigation
„ Orientation and Understanding
„ CREATE NEW SPACES AND MAPS?
http://pconf.terminal.cz/participants/benking.html
http://www.ceptualinstitute.com/genre/
benking/m-p/meta-paradigm.htm
http://www.ceptualinstitute.com/genre/benking/
landscape.htm
In such fields the question of context and overview evolves naturally - This is
essential for learning and „daring“ to forget. As a result the human right to know
what something is „about“ can evolve naturally.

Future Prospects for Constructivism
Cybernetics – quo vadis ?
Heiner Benking
Independent Facilitator and Futurist
WISSEN ORGANISATION GESELLSCHAFT
In cooperation with:
American Society for Cybernetics (ACS)
2003 Conference Vienna, Austria, Nov. 13-15
Heinz von Foerster und das Biological Computer Laboratory
INTERNATIONALER HEINZ VON FOERSTER KONGRESS

GLOBAL LEARN DAY WELCOME TO EUROPE
Finding distance and perspective
or feeling lost in the „woods“
and afraid of „walls“?

LA UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID
(Dep. Comunicación Audiovisual y Pub. II)
19 – 21 de noviembre de 1998
con ARENOTEC ART-ÉDUCATION-NOUVELLES TECHNOLOGIES
Alternative presentations of the periodic table or layout of chemical elements
The above is a selection of pictures from Functional Classification, Appendix 4 pp.1763, Vol. 3
Yearbook of International Organisations as reproduced in part from J.W. van Spronsen, The Periodic
System of Chemical Elements, a history of the fist 100 years, Elsevier 1969, and the display, the 'Magic
Square' form a recently conceived and published design based on number theory as published in:
Michael Stelzner, Die Weltformel der Unsterblichkeit " Vom Sinn der Zahlen " Die Einheit von
Naturwissenschaft und Religion VAP Wiesbaden, 1996, ISBN 3-922367-70-4. In chapter 3: The Third
Dimension, p 369-370. - http://www.ceptualinstitute.com/genre/benking/landscape.htm

Alternative presentations of the
periodic table or layout of chemical
elements
A Battle of Perspectives ?

TAGORE-EINSTEIN COUNCIL
Eighth International Tagore - Einstein Conference
Programme during Asian Pacific Weeks in Berlin 15-28. September 2003
Heiner Benking: MAP & MODEL MAKER
http://benking.de/GI/GI-datavisual-1987.html

Programme during Asian Pacific Weeks in Berlin 15-28. September 2003
http://benking.de/GI/GI-datavisual-
1987.html

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”
See:
benking.de/ISSS & benking.de/Global-Change

G loba l S ha ring a nd C oping
Connecting Worlds, Scales, Media, & Forms/Structures

SUPER-STRUCTURE
In some of the next slides we see a proposal from 1993 with Paul Uhlir,
CODATA, USA and others to show how long we are already trying to
establish “common frames of references” across scales to locate and
relate data and information, and also „signs“ in (next slides),
coded – or non coded data.
The proposals for a conceptual superstructure were done for example for
the RIO 1992 process, see summary and outlook on behalf of NOEL
BROWN, UNEP-RONA
Or the ICSU CODATA 1992 in Beijing „Bridges and a Masterplan“ and 1994
in CHAMBERY with special focus on spacial space-scapes 3 and multi-
dimensional. Title: A Conceptual Superstructure of Knowledge
The author has developed models, schemas or grids to locate and combine
knowledge since the late eigthies, (see also the CODATA- ISGI later in this
presentation), see KnowMap series,
And note the we called it around Knowledge Organisation (ISKO 2002)
and work around Ecological Integrity and the EARTH CHARTA in 2003 a
“Global Covenant”. The Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics
(Charles François) helped me establish some definitions for what will be
presented in the next slides.

EWOC 04, Toronto, October 2004
SYSTEMS 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 language
of concepts and models
Charles François
Founder and Editor of the International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics
Heiner Benking
Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Encyclopaedia of Systems and Cybernetics
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin – BBK
Berliner Bibliothekswissenschaftliches Kolloquiums
25. Mai 2004

LINKING HETEROGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL DATA FOR MULTIPURPOSE
APPLICATIONS:
A CONCEPTUAL SUPERSTRUCTURE
by
Benking, Heiner, FAW Ulm, Germany
Judge, Anthony J.N., Union of International Associations, Brussels, Belgium; and
Uhlir, Paul, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., USA
Extract of chapters of
original research proposal/
concept from 1993
I. A: STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM AND RATIONALE FOR PAPER/CONCEPT
1. 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 barriers
B: STATEMENT OF THE SOLUTION C: ORGANIZATION
II. DESCRIPTION OF CONCEPT
A Conceptual Superstructure or Scaffolding ....
Other Attempts/Models
Potential Applications, Examples, Why not worked/have been insufficient
Why 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

SUPER-SIGN
I strongly recommend to visit:
Harley, J.B. (1932-1991)/ Woodward, David (1942-): - The history of
cartography vol.1; cartography in prehistoric, ancient, and medieavl Europe and
the Mediterranean (1987) [University of Chicago press; Chicago/London;
http://imaginarymuseum.org/MHV/PZImhv/
Wood, Dennis (1992), The Power of Maps, Guilford Press, 1992
Oliver, A., MA in Fine Art at Cardiff School of Art.
http://www.annao.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/text_patterson.htm
Denis Wood has stated first that maps are Supersigns and Anna Oliver
has in her MA so aptly summarized that extract a few lines from her work
„Maps as Signs and Codes“ here for this presentation to support this
thinking and these terms when thinking about the futures of MULTI-
MEDIA:

Maps as Signs and Codes
Denis Wood, in his book The Power of Maps, describes maps thus:
'Maps are about relationships. The map is a highly complex supersign,
a sign composed of lesser signs, or more accurately a synthesis of
signs; and these are supersigns in their own right, systems of signs of
more specific or individual function…..the map image as a whole is
the supersign, and the various systems it resolves to are its
constituent signs, sings that can only have meaning in relation to other
signs.' In this case, the myth (according to Barthes) is signified by
the whole, the supersign.
Wood (1992, p108) describes how a map is a conglomeration of
codes. He defines a code as that which assigns the signifier to the
signified, in so doing creating a sign. So in order to understand a map,
we must be able to understand the codes which make up the map.

CODE:
'an interpretive framework, a set on conventions or rules, which
permits the equivalence of expression and content. A code legislates
how something may be construed as signifying, as representing
something else . In this respect signs are encoded in formation and
decoded in interpretation; and it is only through the mediation of a code
that signification is possible. ' 3
Wood defines two types of codes: intrasignificant and extrasignificant.
Intrasignificant codes are indigenous to the map. They can be iconic,
linguistic, tectonic, temporal and presentational. (Wood, 1992, p117)
Extrasignificant codes operate 'outside' the map itself, and can be
thematic, topic, historical, rhetorical, and utilitarian. (see maps and
myths above)
'The map is simultaneously an instrument of communication -
intrasignifcation - and an instrument of persuasion - extrasignification
and its propensity toward myth.'

Conclusion
As Denis Wood said, 'maps are about relationships'.
'The map is simultaneously an instrument of communication - intrasignifcation -
and an instrument of persuasion - extrasignification and its propensity toward
myth.' (p141)
The London Underground Map was revolutionary in its day in the way it
jettisoned superfluous information used on the maps of the day and focussed
completely on the important relationships in the map: that is, between the lines,
the stations and the river. The information given is pared down to the absolute
essential, the resultant design is elegant in its minimalism, and affects the way
Londoners and others perceive the geography of London.
With Patterson's "The Great Bear" the opposite is true: the navigation
information is removed and instead replaced with more complex, less
comprehensible layers of information, from names to lines to the title. It pretends
to offer ...the opportunity to travel the famous names of history and popular
culture, passing a succession of comedians on the way to a philosopher.' The
piece of work becomes, however, a
'metaphor for the "connectedness" of things, …..suggest[s] new relationships
between them, parallel readings, other ways of configuring the data which
govern our lives.'

The Myths of Maps
Barthes describes myth as a mode of signification (not a concept, or
an idea, or an object), but one on a more complex level than a
'simple' sign. A myth occurs when a signifier (in this instance ink on a
page) comes together with a signified (the concept of the London
Underground network) to make a sign, that is, the London
Underground Map, and the sign then goes on to act once again as a
signifier, in this case the idea of an easy to use transport network,
also an easily navigable city. It is this last part which is the myth, in
other words a second order signification, an idea that there is another
layer of meaning to the sign, frequently an ideology.
However there is new information. The myth could be seen as the
idea that it is possible to construct a map of cultural figureheads, that
there might be an easy way to systemise such an unruly concept.

Maps and Allegory
'Allegory is the extrinsic union, or the conventional and arbitrary juxtaposition of
two spiritual facts - whereby it is posited that this image must represent that
concept.’ - 'In allegorical structure, one text is read through another, however
fragmentary, intermittent, or chaotic their relationship may be, the paradigm for
the allegorical work is thus the palimpsest.'' To use the term 'allegory' to
describe all presentations of one thing by another, would be to render the term
so unspecific as to be useless. The London Underground map can be seen
however as an allegory, of other maps, in that the information from
geographically correct maps taken and changed into coloured lines, circles and
text of the map. However the Patterson map lends itself much more to being
designated 'allegorical' - the layers of information/ implication being so much
more complex.
Craig Owens also associates appropriation with allegory: 'Allegorical imagery is
appropriated imagery; the allegorist does not invent images but confiscates
them. He lays claim to the culturally significant…in his hands the image
becomes something other. He does not restore a original meaning that may
have been lost or obscured, …rather he adds another meaning to the image.'

Maps and Death of the Author - needs discussion !!
One of the characteristics of postmodernist work is that of the 'death of the
author', or the fall from importance of the author / artist, to be replaced by the
importance of the reader.
Wolff describes how a piece of work is no longer seen as a unique creation,
created in isolation by the author, rather it is a manifestation of the coming
together of social structures and a reflection of / result of current ideologies,
beliefs and values. She describes this as '…the personal mediation of a group
consciousness'. ( Wolff, 1981, p119)
'A text is made up of multiple writings, drawn from many cultures, and entering
into mutual relations of dialogue, parody….a texts unity lies not in its origin but in
it's destination, the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the
author'. A map is already an object in which the presence of the artist / author
is frequently minimised, many maps aiming to give the impression that they are
less a personal point of view than an accurate interpretation of 'fact'. Many maps
are nowadays put together by many people, with information fed into computer
software which generates the final images. Curiously though, maps have the
same copyright status as works of art.

Bibliography
Barthes, Roland (1977) The Death of the Author, quoted in Wolff, Janet, The
Social Production of Art, Wolff (1981) p117
British Council Website, http://www.britishcouncil.org/singapore/arts/mcdet14.
htm
Croce, Benedetto (1913), Guide to Aesthetics, quoted in Art In Theory 1900-
1990, Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, 1992, published by Blackwell
Publishers, p112
Harley, J.B. (1932-1991)/ Woodward, David (1942-): - The history of
cartography vol.1; cartography in prehistoric, ancient, and medieavl Europe and
the Mediterranean (1987) [University of Chicago press; Chicago/London; http://
imaginarymuseum.org/MHV/PZImhv/
Oliver, A., MA in Fine Art at Cardiff School of Art. http://www.annao.pwp.
blueyonder.co.uk/text_patterson.htm
Orth, E. W.: Was ist und was heißt Kultur? Dimensionen der Kultur und
Medialität der menschlichen Orientierung, Königshauser & Neumann, Würzburg,
2000 – see also: „Der Blaue Reiter”
Wood, Dennis (1992), The Power of Maps, Guilford Press

Bibliography:
Cassirer
Barthes, Roland (1977)
Croce, Benedetto (1913)
Deleuze
Harley, J.B. (1932-1991)
Hussers
James
Jonas, H.
Merleau-Ponty
Oliver, A.
Orth, E. W.
Peirce, C.S.
Plessner, H.
Ritter, C.
Stachowiak, H. 81923-2004)
Wood, Dennis (1992)
more details to be added - listing to be extended !!

KnowMap
Vol. 1, No. 5, August 2001
People feel fine with icons (images) and symbols, but when
Peirce in his sign theory introduced something in-between what he
called index they are somehow destabilized and frightened - not
able to believe in the either - or world of words or metaphoric
pictures.
Just for the exercise we want to test Peirce's index here by
considering his third category a spacial map or model. This would
create room for communication and sensations when linking and
merging of realities and bridge the media breaks. This in-
betweening is further explored in …
from chapter: Profound Ignorance and In-Between
Spacial versus Spatial Part III :
Panoramic Thinking and End of This Journey

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 WORDS SUBJECTS
ICON ICON IMAGE OBJECTS
ACTION Systematic,
communicative
ETHICS & PRAGMATICS
Jonas / Stachowiak
ADD SYNTAX; SEMANTIC; PRAGMATIK

3 Steps Towards an „Orienting Generalisation“
1. since 1988
Cognitive Panorama
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“
2. since 1988, respectively 1992
Sign- & Mediaintegration
See Fig. 1 in Bridges and a
Masterplan, ICSU-CODATA 1992
from ONLINE `92
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...
Icons / Images Symbols
Index
The three sign systems (C.S.
Peirce) set in relation to each other
(Knowmap 2001) and combined
with Abby Warburg`s Layers in 3.
The Panorama as an Index-Space:
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 / Bilder Symbols / Symbole
Embodied visual (Schau-
Logik) Models for
orienting generalisations
(Grob-Orientierung)
Signs, maps, schemas
and/or Models !
NeoPragmatics &
Ethics & Action
REALIZE & PONDER &
COMMUNICATE & ACT
Index - Map or Space
Heiner Benking: Alte und Neue Räume, Ordnungen
und Modelle für Orientierungen und Vereinbarungen
UNESCO Conference: The Unifying Aspects of Cultures, 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 ******
Kim H. Veltman
Learning and Communication with Old and New Media
UNESCO Conference: The Unifying Aspects of Culture, Vienna 2003

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

3 Steps Towards an „Orienting Generalisation“
1. since 1988
Cognitive Panorama
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“
2. since 1988, respectively 1992
Sign- & Mediaintegration
See Fig. 1 in Bridges and a
Masterplan, ICSU-CODATA 1992
from ONLINE `92
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...
Index
The three sign systems (C.S.
Peirce) set in relation to each other
(Knowmap 2001) and combined
with Abby Warburg`s Layers in 3.
The Panorama as an Index-Space:
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).

Please note:
After section on SuperSigns and SuperStructures
(after a short introduction and orientation section)
The following slides are part on Maps and Models
was taken from the CODATA – ISGI 2005
which took also place in BERLIN the week before.
Pls. see the next slide.

Basic classes of simulated reality and their proponents
Reality Nature, Man Made World
Virtual Reality Sutherland, Furness
Augmented Reality Feiner, Stricker
Augmented Virtuality Gelernter, Ishii
Double Augmented Reality Mankoff
Blended Reality Turner; Benking
Merged and Morphed Realities Judge, Benking,
see: spatial metaphors & User Interface design
see: Composite Cognitive Panorama or Panopticum
http://www.ceptualinstitute.com/genre/benking/visual/visualization.htm extend with and from Veltman 98

ORDO ET MENSURA V
MAGIC SQUARE - Dr. Alfred Schinz 4 -7. Sept., 1997
Das Maßsystem
von Erlitou I
zweite Bauphase
72 x 72 Fuß mit
den
Teilungsmöglich-
keiten nach der
Yang-Teilung
(ungerade
Zahlen) und der
Ying-Teilung
(gerade Zahlen)
Schinz, Alfred: The Magic Square
Cities in Ancient China. 1996.
428 p. w. numerous ill. and maps (partly col.). 31,5 cm. Buchleinen, 3204gr.
ISBN: 3-930698-02-1, - EDITION AXEL MENGES-

Models and „think“-models
Cronenberger Ranger
Frank Baldus, et. al. 2002
und Weltbilder-Welthäuser
Baldus - Benking 2003
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
UNESCO, 1984

Model Thinking & Pragmatics
(developed between 1965 – 2004)
Herbert Stachowiak, * 28. Mai 1921, Berlin
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

G loba l S ha ring a nd
C oping S ta rting P oints
HARMONIZATION
The 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.

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Austria Center, Vienna
See
GLOBAL CHANGE
Harmonization

GEO-ECO-DYNAMICS: GeoJournal, Topogramm, & ACCESS
German synopsis
1986-1992 UN Year of the Mountains
Ecological thinking & acting:
Thinking and understanding
“inter” and “trans” or
“Interaction along and across
hierarchical scales
in a concrete and sharable way”

1990
• German Federal Chancellery
• EEES of G7
• White House Conference on
GLOBAL CHANGE
• UNEP-HEM

LOCAL AND GLOBAL CHANGE 1990 - 1992 - 1998
Overview is possible! - The question is: Is there a Human Right to know the
context, find orientation and understanding?

Crisis of
Order, Orientation, Meaning,...
Die Neuen Medien -
Kommunikative Gesellschaft ?
Studium generale, Humboldt - Universität zu Berlin 17.1. 2000
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 ?

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”.

Interactive relations among hierarchically ordered subsystems
of an organism, Inscribed Domains, P. Weiss,
In: Beyond reductionism, Alpbach 1968, pls. see more: IFSR - ISSS

Is synoptic enough ?
What does it
include?
Immensely: small & complex & much!?
Cité des Sciences et de l‘Industrie = Joel de Rosnay
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/macroscope/

The hierarchy of constitutions with the barrier
to physical reductionism shown as a black border.
The hierarchy of constitution with arrows
showing the flow of values.s

A Systemic View
or / and
an
Organismic
General
System View
of the World ?
R.W. Gerard 1958

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6-8. December 2002, Austria Center, Vienna
Granularity and Context of Knowledge
Before we write more about knowledge it should be made very clear we must differentiate
among these three types or levels of knowledge:
* Detailed or specialists' knowledge - very high precision and definition
(granularity) in a certain subject field, language and culture. This is the domain of
experts/specialists, number crunchers and search machines.
* Route knowledge - where you orient one application or subject to the next, like you
find your way from one corner to the next. This is the domain of experts and where new second-
generation knowledge tools can be helpful, if we do not lose the context and become
overwhelmed by fixed knowledge molds and patterns.
* Survey or overview map knowledge - which is not only according to Kant and
Popper, objective knowledge as we have an agreed upon frame or grid and can at least, in this
framework, tell if something is in or out of a certain frame, overlapping with other fields, topics
or issues, or possibly just a certain corner or area of that frame. This is the domain where we
need our resort as humans to add shared feelings and values. This article is primarily about this
third layer!

Altenberg Workshops 1996/97 30. January 1997, Austria
Das soziale „Holon“
der Menschheit
nach A. Taylor
mit
emergierenden
geopolitischen
System Ebenen

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
Culture
http://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.

„ 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

Using the same
references
or co-
ordinates
Imaginary Spaces
Eco-Cube
Blackbox Nature
Rubik‘s Cube of

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

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

„Using Mental Models for Nurturing Understanding
of multicomplex issues like Globalisation, Cultures and Sustainability“
Eric Schneider / Heiner Benking, EWOC 2004 Presentation
In order to facilitate overview & orientation in sustainability,
and to support, develop and nurture pupils‘ understanding
for relations and cohesion in a globalised world...
>>> We utilise the potentials of imaginary MODELS,
develop and switch between OLD and NEW WORLD-VIEWS...

Mental Architecture Models
Eric Schneider / Heiner Benking, EWOC 2004 Presentation
ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT (
Rees / Wackernagel)
WELTHAUS - WORLD HOUSE
Layout for a sustainable civilisation, built on
the wisdom of 50+ cultures
in a 6-year process.
Chapter 2 WELTHAUS („
Thought Models“ team,
Baldus and Cronenberg Rangers
)
„Man is a model-making animal“ (UNESCO 1984)
The Rubik‘s Cube of Ecology
and the Cognitive Panorama
(Benking) see also
Dymaxion Map - Operating
Manual for SPACESHIP EARTH
(Buckminster Fuller)
Spaces
Subject- Object-
Context-

Question Themes Focus
Who? Persons, Biographical
Institutions
What? Subjects, Topical
Objects
Where? Places Geographical
When? Events, Chronological
Periods
How? Instructions Training,
Instructional
Why? Explanations Goal, Philosophical,
Ontological

LA UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID
(Dep. Comunicación Audiovisual y Pub II)
19 – 21 de noviembre de 1998
con la participación de ARENOTECH
Association Européenne ART-ÉDUCATION-NOUVELLES TECHNOLOGIES)
A Universal Ordering System An Integrative Matrix
for Disciplines and Phenomena of Human Preoccupations
Matrix columns Matrix levels Matrix columns Matrix levels
1 A B A B
2 A B A B
3 A B A B
4 A B A B
5 A B A B
6 A B A B
7 A B A B
8 A B A B
9 A B A B
Information Coding Classification Functional Classification
I. Dahlberg (c) A.Judge

The ICC is in the MMI Library
a basis for teaching wholeness and connectedness -
what we know and how little we know !
KNOW-MAPS FOR KIDS
patterns can be meanings that connect
GLOBAL LEARN DAY
WELCOME TO EUROPE
A Universal Ordering System for Disciplines and Phenomena
ICC - Information Coding Classification I. Dahlberg
Matrix columns Matrix levels
9 Culture Distribution and Synthesis )
8 Science & Information Application and Determination
7 Economic & Technology Technology and Production
6 Socio Institution or Content
5 Human Persons or Content
4 Bio Property Attribute
3 Cosmo & Geo Activity, Process
2 Energy & Matter Objects, Components
1 Form & Structure Theories, Principles
0 Subject Areas General Form Concepts

Premier forum des solutions pour développement des musées et expositiones
Journée Access Multimedia 17. - 18. Novembre 1998 - Cité des Sciences et de l‘Industrie
Kinds of Maps
1. Climate
2. Cultivation
3. Energy
4. Food
5. Geology
6. Medicine
7. Politics
8. Population
9. Religion
10. Terrain
Scales Qualitative
1. World
2. Continent
3. Country
4. Province
5. City
6. Building
7. Ground-Plan
8. Room
9. Wall
10. Object
Kinds of Choices
1. Access
2. Learning
3. Levels
4. Media
5. Quality
6. Quantity
7. Questions
8. Space
9. Time
10.Tools
Why? - Purpose
1. Everyday
2. Emergency
3. Business
4. Education
5. Environment
6. Government
7. Health
8. Legal
9. Leisure
10. Religion
Levels (of
Knowledge)
1. Classifications
2. Definitions
3. Explanations
4. Bibliographies
5. Partial Contents
6. Full Contents
7. Internal Analyses
8. External Analyses
9. Restorations
10. Reconstructions

Round-Table:
Ethics
in Knowledge Representation and Organization
Impulse Statement:
What do we need ? Where do we want to go ?
A Linguistic Turn ? , An Iconic Turn ?
Communication Turn, Spatial Turn?,...
or a Pragmatic Spin ?
The construction and ethics
of shared frames of references

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“
Heiner Benking
Independent Futurist and Facilitator
please see also:
Ecological Integrity and Earth Charter 2002 presentations
Asian Pacific Weeks in Berlin 15-28. September 2003

KNOW_ MAPS for KIDS
at the
GLOBAL LEARN DAY
The ICC in the MMI Library
a basis for teaching
wholeness, connectedness,
what we know and how little
we know !

Culture and Civilization:
Comparative Cultural Studies:
Culture, Cultural Policy, and the Media
Homogenisation, Standardisation, Harmonisation,
Linguistic-, Iconic-, Spacial-, Integral Turn,...
Where do we go from here in an age of a globalised "Cyberculture"?
Heiner Benking,
Contemporaneousness of the Non-Contemporaneous
Die Gleichzeitigkeit des Ungleichzeitigen

SUSTAINABLE INFORMATION SOCIETY -
VALUES AND EVERYDAY LIFE
An Integral Agenda for
Coping with Globalisation
and Cyberculture
A Report and Reflections and about sharing
extra dimensions and modern (communication)
technologies
Heiner Benking
Independent Futurist and Facilitator

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

Culture Navigation and Reference Rooms:
A Futuristic „Out-look“
Questioning the next turn in Culture and „CyberCulture“ –
What will happen after the „linguistic-“ and „iconic turn“ ?
Heiner Benking
Associate, Millennium Project, Berlin CoLab
European Commission MEDICI FrameworkEuropean Commission MEDICI Framework
13.- 20. March 2002
Welcome to the Future

Windows into and a WorkReport on:
• E-Learning
• International Cooperation
• Education for Sustainability
ENCOS 2004
1st European Networks Conference on
Sustainability in Practice, 1-4 April 2004, Berlin
Heiner Benking

S8: Culture in the Multimedia Information Society
Portals, Switching Systems
and Reference Schemas Heiner Benking
http://www.thur.de/philo/Benking/extra_skin.html
http://www.thur.de/philo/Benking/effe_en.html
http://www.geocities.com/~acunu/millennium/resume/res-hb.html
Language Theory for the Computer
Johannes Heinrichs, Heiner Benking
http://benking.de/systematik-9.html
http://www2.hu-berlin.de/soz-oeko/
TKE '99 Terminology and Knowledge Engineering
Innsbruck, August 23-27 1999

Cybernetic Futures –
kybernetische Zukünfte
Heiner Benking
Gemeinsamer Kongress der Leibniz - Sozietät
und der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kybernetik
Berliner November 2003
Ha rna c k – Ha us , Ma x - P la nc k - G e s e lls c ha ft zur F örde rung de r Wis s e ns c ha fte n e . V .

WELT IM WANDEL: Bonn 1990 / Rio 1992 / Berlin 2002
Global Change - Herausforderungen für Wissenschaft und Politik
Kommt auf die Terrasse zur WELT IM WANDEL Ausstellung:
Wir basteln dort Modelle wie wir uns ganzheitlich Themen wie:
WELT, AGENDA, ÖKOLOGIE... nähern können
wie wir überhaupt uns trauen können/sollten:
„GLOBAL ZU DENKEN“
Baut mit uns AGENDA Bällen und Ökologie Würfel-Räume

• Words in Space (Wolf)
• Relations, Issues, Proportions,
Consequences in space
(Judge/Benking)

The both sides of Wholeness and the Way in-between. Fig. 147. Die Weltformel der
Unsterblichkeit, Vom Sinn der zahl - die Einheit der Natur, Michael Stelzner
Fig. 6: Form cosntants as mapped by the cartographer
of consciousness, in Brian Horst OMNI Spt. 1980
Vision Quest - The Four Shields, for all see:
http://www.ceptualinstitute.com/genre/benking/landscape.htm
G loba l S ha ring a nd
C oping
T ra ns form a tion of
Re pre s e nta tion

Lecture on Complex Issues
and how to map and archive them.
The need for an integrated systemic-cybernetic
language for concepts and models
Charles Francois
1 ) g e ne ra l inform a tion 2 ) m e thodolog y or
m ode l
3 ) e pis te m olog y, ontolog y a nd s e m a ntic s
4 ) hum a n s c ie nc e s 5 ) dis c ipline orie nte d
25. Mai 2004

1.               Insufficiency of the ... et ceteris paribus models
2.               The need for new models
3.               Mankind adapting
4.               Wishful thinking without understanding
5. New models and tools
The whole is more than the sum of the parts
The whole is less than the sum of the parts
Many actions trigger feedbacks
Feedbacks can be positive or negative
Dynamic stability or homeostasis
Adaptability is better than adaptation
Requisite variety
Thresholds and crashes
Short-, Medium- and Long term
6. An example: African locusts from solitary to gregarious (Uvarov and Bredo)
7. From a collection of conceptual tools to a transdisciplinary integrated language
25. Mai 2004

Premier forum des solutions pour développement des musées et expositiones
Journée Access Multimedia 17. - 18. Novembre 1998 - Cité des Sciences et de l‘Industrie
No covenant in modern times
Many Portals - but no „Common House“
Source: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/macroscope/
„Magnetic Portals“: Information Strategy Magazine, July/August 1998

Die Neuen Medien -
Kommunikative Gesellschaft ?
Studium generale, Humboldt - Universität zu Berlin 17.1. 2000
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/infoethics_2/
index.htm
http://atwww.hhi.de/USINACTS/mono.html
http://www.ceptualinstitute.com/genre/benking
/humane-info.htm
http://www.bfranklin.edu/hubs/global/benking.htm

1 ) g e ne ra l inform a tion 2 ) m e thodolog y or
m ode l
3 ) e pis te m olog y, ontolog y a nd s e m a ntic s
4 ) hum a n s c ie nc e s 5 ) dis c ipline orie nte d

The problem:
Complex SUBJECTS and ISSUES across scales and
cultures and vicious problem cycles !
A solution?:
Using systemic terminology, shared order systems
and models, a systematic pragmatism?
25. Mai 2004

Schedule of the PRESENTATION
10 Minutes HeBE / ChFra
C: OLD AND NEW MODELS
Prepesentation Problems (SIGN THEORY)
and Order Systems
D: Future Outlook 10 Minutes HeBe
Discussion/Conversations 30 Minutes
& Reception open-end
25. Mai 2004

INST-Conference
Profound Ignorance and In-Between
The outcome of creating such a knowledge-space is quite unsettling and makes people
educated through nominal thinking feel very much at unease, as we map through what is
known and what is unknown. Lewis Thomas was right in saying that we are
"profoundly ignorant", that "we know very little and understand even less" so making
this obvious is often not appreciated.
People feel fine with icons (images) and symbols, but when Peirce in his sign theory
introduced something in-between what he called index they are somehow destabilized
and frightened - not able to believe in the either - or world of words or metaphoric
pictures.
Just for the exercise we want to test Peirce's index here by considering his third
category a spacial map or model. This would create room for communication and
sensations when linking and merging of realities and bridge the media breaks.
Pls see: http:benking.de/Global-Change/spatial-spacial.html

Objectives: This workshop is
about how to:
• overcome thinking in primarily or just one "area" or “box” and see ethics and the
challenge to Humanity to include space and time horizons (adapted from Hans Jonas, see:
http://benking.de/jonas-1993.html) and folio 1 (Club of Rome Report)
• think between scales - micro - meso - macro - cosm (see Paul Weiss folio 2)
• think not dualistic, abstract, and linear, but in embodied, plastic and real way by not just
using pictures, models or metaphors, but by placing and relating them in extra and conjoined
realms or spaces (folio 3 and “black-box” and “cognitive panorama”)
• locate and outline what issues, subjects or situations “are about” in an overview or
contextual „mode“ or better map/model, neglecting the detail for a moment in order to
„roughly“ orient the „what it is about“ and by locating themes, find occurrances of the same
issue in different languages and cultures. (folio 4 terminology & switching space)
• think spacially (embodied and immersive) instead of thinking spatially and abstract in a
nominalistic instead of a conceptualistic/contextualistic constructive way or „mode“.
• Combine schemas and representations in order to overcome the dogma of the one and only
categrory, represntation, frame, schema, .... (metaphors are image schemas)

LET‘s TRY TO LEARN AND EXPERIENCE MORE,
LET‘s GO BEYOND WALLS AND MODELLS?
GLOBAL LEARN DAY
Plan „B“ has a flaw
Why not go for PLAN „D“?
Searching for alternatives
for knowing, presenting,
representing, and sharing?
The European CEC „white paper“ Towards a Learning Society started with Condorcet
asking us to experience and even try new ways. The Club of Rome Report quotes the
children with „get real or get lost“. Children workshops showed in 1993 that they
picked the proposed concepts up very naturally and easily, they wrote as a headline „our
View of Life is too Flat“. All cultures request to make words solid and use a living,
embodied language with analogies and metaphors.
We recommend: this Link to show that „big pictures“ (presentation of context and
overview) are possible and the following work-reports and material on education,
including the „10 Theses for Education“

Schedule of the PRESENTATION
15 Minutes ChFr / HeBe
A: Orientation of Saur Publications with direct focus on the
issues discussed here
1. Encyclopaedia of Systems and Cybernetics plus DEMO
2. Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential
3. Earlier publications of Saur with the German Society for
Klassifikation and the INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY for
KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION
25. Mai 2004

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 FuturistI
by Heiner Benking, Berlin
Tagore-Einstein Council, Open-Forum, PNW,…
Towards one possible global embodied Covenant:
Models, - not just Systems, Signs, Words and Images

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.
Abstract or Opening Statement

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,...
Action Items - “To DO” list:

Pls. see:
„Extensions“ and excentric positionality,
„workplaces of mind“ and Jean Gebser:
„Only the „concrete“ can be integrated“.“

Homogenisation, Standardisation, Harmonisation,
Linguistic-, Iconic-, Spacial-, Integral Turn,...
Where do we go from here in an age of a globalised "Cyberculture"?
VISION TELEVISION
CULTURAL RIGHTS & CULTURAL RESPONSIBILITIES
UN HEADQUARTERS
„THE SECOND FLOOD“ - CULTURAL CONFUSIONS
REPORT ON CYBERCULTURE
Pierre Levy, Council of Europe Report
INST-Conference

ABSTRACT:
The paper reviews possible roots or foundations for comparing and bridging information
along and across scales and cultures. In contrast to singling out certain cultures "at
hand" and trying to compare only selected, well framed items, the proposal is made to
look for common frames of references, shared and agreed upon maps and extensional 3-
dimensional models; to provide "rooms“ or spaces to position cultures in their time,
context/situation, and "thematic" neighbourhoods - and see their lineage and "overlap" -
be comparative in a broader sense.
Proposals presented built on:
1. a sign theory which connects symbols, icons, and indexes (Peirce) and focuses on
bridging such incompatible representations,
2. ways to embody and model informational context (meta) or overview mode,
3. Lessons learned with UN and G7 proposal for the harmonisation of multilingual,
multi-sectorial information worldwide from the late 80ies time ago, and
4. projects in the field of environmental and general education and decision-
support for policy-making (situation rooms).

Kurt Hanks – Out of the Box thinking
http://hanksconsulting.com/

Kurt Hanks – Paradigm Mapping
http://hanksconsulting.com/

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