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“Grasping, Groping, and Grokking Heiner”
a collective inquiry and teaser

WHOLENESS ?
SUSTAINABILITY ?
ECOLOGY ?
SYSTEMS ?
ORDER ?
HOLISM ?
… any more buzz-words ??

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 ?

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

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

Source & coop with:
KURT HANKS
„the Visualizer“ Rapid VIZ
The Collaps of Belief

Source & coop with:
KURT HANKS - „the Visualizer“ Rapid VIZ The Collaps of Belief

30visiones.knauf.es#30 VISIONS OF SUSTAINABILITY

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

Premier forum des solutions pour développement des musées et expositiones - Journée Access Multimedia
17. - 18. Novembre 1998 - Cité des Sciences et de l‘Industrie
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?

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 ?

Global Sharing and Coping
Connecting Worlds, Scales, Media, & Forms/Structures

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

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 /
Stachowiak Peirce ...
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:
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 / 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

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

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
ADD SYNTAX; SEMANTIC; PRAGMATIK

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

Starting Points
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.

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

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.

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

INST-Conference
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 spac
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 Ecology

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

Connecting Worlds, Scales, Media, &
Forms/Structures

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
-
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

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

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

Cybernetic Futures –
kybernetische Zukünfte
Heiner Benking
Independent Facilitator and Futurist
Gemeinsamer Kongress der Leibniz - Sozietät
und der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kybernetik
Berliner November 2003
Harnack – Haus, Max - Planck - Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften 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
Transformation of Representation

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

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

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