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8 Aug 2015 @ 08:18
This week was again super-intense. International Systems Scientist gathered in Berlin for their 59th annual conference. I was around such gatherings in 1996, 1998, 2004 and happy to know some people of this "crowd".
As from my side all is published long ago I was pleased to attend the "high level" pre-conference in Herrenhausen, see last week, [link] and so had the time to remember, revisit, meet participants and see the "state of the arts" of SYSTEMS SCIENCES today.
Governing the Anthropocene: the greatest challenge for systems thinking in practice?[link] #ISSS2015 [link]
The issue/title is very ambitious, and so are many of the participants. I had intense exchanges like 20/7 - so quite a busy week. Check the programme, Visualisations by Patricia, Videos from Peter, and the next gathering in Boulder (and India) next year.
My conclusions: I will put my 15 minutes from Herrenhausen into some VIDEO Clips and I finally need to write a book one day. All is works (also of others) need common frames ! I was pleased that I heard the word Superstructure many times in the last look-out synopsis session. Let us see if we come to the Plural of Superstructure - so something we can use to connect the "dots" of Supersystems....
And I also agreed to make a GeneralThinkers gathering [link] in Berlin asap. so we can review the outcomes of the ISSS from another position with other perspectives....
I spoke much about the history of the ISSS and General Geography, General Model, and General Systems Theories and how to add "Cum Praxi" - not only in Herrenhausen.... More >
2 Aug 2015 @ 02:50
yesterday we revisited as announced the "ON THE EDGE" exhibition. See:
[link] we had to do some VIDEO takes with Alexander Christakis in another "AGORA setting" stay tuned... busy days - as Alexco need to leave this beautiful Berlin before the ISSS unfortunately - but priorities in life and in general matter...
Highlight beside Alecos lecture were the films from Maria.... stay tuned....
Maria, who is Maria!? maybe check regarding our topic this event 5 years ago about our themes and Democratic R[E]volution, as it was moderated by Maria Kakoulaki https://sites.google.com/site/21stcenturyagora/home/connecting_dots_and_-spaces
[link] now published with the OAC and COUNCIL of CHURCHES in some environments...
31 Jul 2015 @ 08:59
NOTES FROM THE PALACE: Two days in Herrenhausen in Hannover are very exhausting - but it is the place of Leibniz, see Theoria cum Praxi see "Duty and Insight" a few weeks ago. [link]
Organized by a broad range of organisation and financed the Volkswagen Foundation - This is the programme. Check also on my site: It is a pre-event for the ISSS next week: Governing the Anthropocene: the greatest challenge for systems thinking in practice?[link] Organized as a systemic inquiry bringing together invited speakers, delegated form reknown international organisations, scholars and writers, and postgrad and doctoral researchers/students.
Check this announcement: "‘Governing the Anthropocene: Cyber-systemic possibilities’"[link] This is the Conference Docu with Audio and more...
7 Jul 2015 @ 12:36
There is a big question mark around the Symposium: SPP 1689 Climate Engineering Research Conference [link] going on until Friday July 7-10 in the German Academy of Sciences BBAW: [link] see also News on the topic: [link]
We will have a week to prepare for next weeks policy sessions and what kind of new research and action should be pushed with highest priority. They are talking here about "negative emissions" when people in the street might better understand "storage" and propose "vapourware" futures. I will CC Jerome and the Millennium Project next to see what is really "in the air" or future research policies, and how safe and reliable the schemes presented here are....
Me I feel we should go onto Natural Carbon Storage, discuss what kind of "carbon" we are talking about, ....
We proposed projects around our UN-ECOSOC efforts [link] long ago. Solutions like Terra Preta/BioChar, another solution is presented here by the ReefFormers ....(PDF) [link] a project I covered earlier: in Kiel OCEAN FUTURES: [link] and Sofia Blue and Smart: [link]
The quality and variety of the symposium participants is great and there is lots of talk about "slippery slopes", free drivers and riders, .... you see, participants taking perspectives, positions, scales, proportions, consequences, ... and are very concerned enough to hide it and transcend....
6 Jul 2015 @ 19:24 Coding da Vinci - Der Kultur-Hackathon is a community project of Deutsche Digitalen Bibliothek (DDB), Open Knowledge Foundation Germany e.V. (OKF DE), Servicestelle Digitalisierung Berlin (digiS) and Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. (WMDE).
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Academy of Sciences: Originality, priority, and reputation. Annual theme: Leibniz: Vision as ission/Aufgabe/Duty.... [link] see also last month: [link]
This was a really interesting event, it was also about schools of thinkers and that often not the thinkers clash, but the schools ! I was immediately remembered to revisit mindbugs and mindboggles:
4 Jul 2015 @ 14:18
OPEN ISLAND June-July in Berlin: https://www.facebook.com/events/1585723308370262/permalink/1609276729348253/
https://www.facebook.com/multiversity check out the websites and come to the closing party July 11 in Berlin Schöneweide !
Open-Bar and -Energy: at the Open-Island co-creation camp, we play around with materials, ideas, functions and share our different knowledge and skills. TODAY, from 4-6 PM CET, we join the "Living Bridges Maker Meet" global hangout. We hope to see YOU too in the hangout (participation link will be available soon at https://www.facebook.com/groups/livingbridgesplanet/ or here) Livestream also available if you prefer to just watch. The purpose is to discuss the meaning and mindsets of "MAKERS" and see, if they are interested to connect glocally for humanitarian challenges and open-source co-creation.
2 Jul 2015 @ 13:39
The Humboldt Lab Dahlem, checking Laboratory Conceps until tomorrow hosts a symposium dear to my work on bringing difference across cultures together. This Dahlem Lab is located in the Ethnological, African and Asian Museum and a must for visitors not only from abroad. We are in the
THE SYMPOSIUM IS ABOUT ARTISTIC AND CURATORIC STRATEGIES Dokumentation.humboldt-lab.de in view of new forms of presentation and how that can be displayed in the Berlin Castle soon. See blog.humboldt-lab.de
It is about the crossing of boundaries between the disciplines, critical interrogations of the categories involved.
I am back on the second day. Interesting talks, very special audience, too little artists, all curators, ... see !? You can see the embodied group-think, how specialst for regions, meet expertise from cultures, arts, ....
Great people struggeling...
The last presentation is about MANGA, Musealizing Manga in Japan: The precedence of"media" over "culture" and "art", very interesting, check out: Jaqueline Berndt, Kyoto Seika University. More >
29 Jun 2015 @ 08:40
today: digiS BERLIN @digiSberlin #KOBV #Forum15 in the Zuse-Institut Berlin @kobv_zt mit vielen Beiträgen zu #openaccess und #digitalhumanities
now on air: Martin Götschel - nyti.ms Digital Humanities
For me it looks like back to the roots, a déjà-vu of data and processing the last 40 years. As I am working on an essay about Robert Jungk and his search for the NEW LIBRARIANS essay he wrote those days, I can not resist to check out the Free University Berlin KOBV Forum and check out the full programme with the title:
RÜCKBLICK _ AUGENBLICK _ WEITBLICK: - Looking back - Moment - Long and Broad View As you can see terms like BLICK=View, SCHAU: *** [link] , Auge=EYE are very central to understand Geman thinking with all its annotations and embodiments.
Now we have not a poetry slam, but 18 times MINUTE MADNESS (1:30 minutes pitches...) check the programm!
I like the format - only miss that we do not have a chance to follow up with a magic Roundtable - Stammtisch 2.0 and 3.0 ? [link] or see our CAPS event (PDF page4): [link] or the bpb session: https://www.bpb.de/199775/ws-33-magic-roundtable-dialog-auf-gleicher-augenhoehe?nc&reply&cid=842
NOTES - WORK IN PROGRESS - come back and maybe check More >
LEIBNIZ: VISION ALS AUFGABE second slant check # 1 *****
Theoria cum praxi - Wissenschaft zwischen Neugierde und Nutzen II am 25. Juni 2015 [link]
A very special event about the Challenges around not just CHALLENGES to SCIENCE and POLITICS -see our 25th and 45th celebrations [link] - but how to include stakeholders, not observers and lobbyists. Check BUNDERKUMMER revisited in this blog: also on the following days: [link]
The event is very interesting, I enjoyed talking not only to Gethmann and Labisch and recommend...
will use much for Leibniz Castle Herrenhausen in July, Stay tuned...
This is Heiner Benking's News Log, a private-public diary presenting events, symposia and happenings in Berlin and elsewhere - my farings, foci, issues and concerns.
PLEASE CONSIDER THIS PERSONAL BLOG an ARTISTIC and PERFORMATIVE MEDIA INTERVENTION !
The Log links to my work and interests and presents issues and special concern of maybe a very small group of "concerned, engaged generalist" - a Global Interest Group (GIG). This needs to be seen in contrast to the ubiquitous Specialized Interest Groups (SIGs), the "scientific" approach to organize subject areas and specialization and standardization and harmonization! of means, nomenclatures, and modes of thinking. My favorite stories in the WHOLENESS SEMINAR include:
BELA BANATHY: "GENESIS
OF GENERAL SYSTEMS THEORY" and "IVAN HAVEL: Longing for Unified Knowledge" where a "specialist" runs into the founding session of the early foundations General Systems, mumbling "this is not my field" or where Ivan M. Havel expresses his search for other kinds of knowledge.
As a starter I also recommend to check my MINDPRINT site, where we add the need for HANDPRINTS and MINDPRINTS, as FOOTPRINTS are good to visualize and communicate numbers, densities or consumption per area, but are not sufficient to negotiate and "harmonize" across domains and communicate gains in different cultures, technologies, times,... in short: incompatible but relevant information and our work on dialog, peace, policy-making, and multi-modal, faceted issues and consequences.
What am I? This is a "well-packed" question for which I have not the or a single answer. Some called me an in-betweener, go-getter, facilitator, hub, marvel-hero, trim-tab, bricoleur, bricoleers??? - career designeer, .... Some even "hank" which I disliked or Story which I liked very much !!
I have no single answer as I feel we need to walk the talk and sing and dance Life ! in spectra and fields in multiple embodied spaces.
To nebulous an answer? I am sorry but I do not go for overclaims and oversimplifications, under-complex and over-simplistic approaches with clan-think mindsets about real issues in clear contexts!
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