1. Collection of Powerpoint presentations
from Heiner Benking 1990 - 2012
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2. “New Data Challenges in Our Information Age” - ICSU CODATA 1992
ICSU - CODATA Conference, International Council of Scientific Unions - Committee on Data for Science and Technology
19-22 October 1992, Beijing, China
Presentation of
HEMIS
An Environmental Information Reference System
providing Multi - Lingual and -Terminological Access
Strategies
by combining Facetted Thesauri and Hyper-Link
Technology
by Heiner Benking
an behalf of: Hartmut Keune, Ian K. Crain, UNEP HEM Office,
Munich, Ulrich B. Kampffmeyer, PROJECT CONSULT
GmbH, Hamburg, Germany

3. UN - ISY Boulder & ISY Pasadena, 1992
HEMIS
A Meta-Database and Information System
with Multiple and Multi-Lingual Access Strategies
Presentation (Bolder) by
Hartmut Keune, UNEP HEM Office, Munich
Ulrich B. Kampffmeyer, PROJECT CONSULT, Hamburg, Germany
according to a invitation by UN- OS to Heiner Benking
& Heiner Benking, Pasadena
see also UNEP - HEM Newsletters Munich 1992
and as publised for the ISY Conference proceeding in Pasadena
***** LINK ISY PASADENA *****

4. MELBOURNE

5. Santiago

6. Washington

7. NAIROBI

8. HAMBURG

9. Deutscher Tropentag 1999
Mapping and Managing
Bio-Diversity and Cultural-Diversity
T 4.3 S3:3
Dipl. Ing. Heiner Benking
Arbeitsgruppe Agrar-Kultur und Sozialökologie
Landwirtschaftlich-Gärtnerische Fakultät
HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN

10. TKE '99 Terminology and Knowledge Engineering
Innsbruck, August 23-27 1999
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/

11. Worldview Compositions and Cognitive Spaces - a
necessary evolutionary step
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research
Altenberg Workshops 1996/97 30. January 1997, Austria
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 conceptaulsitic/contextualistic constructive way or „mode“.
• Combine scemas and representations in order to overcome the dogma of the one and

12. Die Neuen Medien -
Kommunikative Gesellschaft ?
Studium generale, Humboldt - Universität zu Berlin 17.1. 2000
Ordnungs -, Orientierungs-, und Sinnkrise
Welche Welt ?
Welche Metaphern ?
 ein Gefängnis
 ein Varieté
 eine Show
 ein Labyrinth
 eine Bombe
 eine finale Flut
 ein süßer Brei ?

13. 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-

14. DAVID BOHM Dialogues
& Ljubljana Science Festival & IS'98
Ljubljana, October, 1998
Creating, Blending, Concerting, and Sharing
Global Workplaces of the Mind
Symbol Grounding in the Cognitive Panorama
(3Space/Time)
Heiner Benking

15. Premier f orum des s olutions pour le dév eloppeme nt de s mus ées et expos itions 17-18. 11.1998 - Cité des S ciences et de l'Indus trie
Jo urne e
ACCESS MULTIMEDIA
AU PATRIMOINE CULTUREL
Knowledge Organization and education
in the age of digital culture: an outlook
Hein er B en king
G erman y
http://n ew civ.org/ co b/me mbe rs/ be nkin g/
http://w w w .c ep tu alinstitute.c om/g en re /b enk ing/ ho mep age H B1.h tm

16. 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)
Ecologia
CONVOCA LAS de la Naturaleza y
Cultura
I JORNADAS
EUROPEAS Écologie
de la Nature et Culture
"EDUCACIÓN Y A Knowledge Ecology
TECNOLOGÍAS - for Nature, Culture & Cyberculture,
EN LA SOCIEDAD DE LA - for Economy & Ecology,
INFORMACIÓN" - for Overview, Orientation &
Understanding
Heiner Benking, Germany

17. Welcome to the
Future
European Commission MEDICI Framework 13.- 20. March 2002
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
Independent Facilitator and Futurist
Associate, Millennium Project, Berlin CoLab

18. VIENNA presentations
GLOBAL LEARN DAY
NETDAYS ?? CYBERWEIBER
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19. The Seventh International ISKO Conference
Granada, Spain, 10-13 July 2002
Thursday 11th of July 15:30h.: Round-Table:
Ethics in Knowledge Representation and
Organization
"Challenges in Knowledge Representation and
Organization for the 21stCentury:
Integration of Knowledge across Boundaries„

20. L I C H T - SYMPOSIUM
eine Veranstaltung der Lichtkongress Reihe
Lebensbione - Biotope - Ökotope - Lichtbau - freie Energie - Zukunftskonzepte - die Architektur des Garten Eden -
Fülle und Leere in integralen Zeiten/Welten
Überlegungen zum Einbruch der Zeiten/Räume/Medien/Welten
als Beitrag zur Themenfindung, Orientierung und
Anregung zur praktischen Umsetzung in gemeinsamen alternativen Zukünften
Die Wendezeit - Das Wesen der Zukunft auf Fünft-Integraler Bewusstseinsstufe
Vorgestellt von Heiner Benking
Ort/Zeit: Kunststiftung Starke, Löwenpalais, Samstag, 16. November, 11:00
Uhr

21. INST-Conference, 6-8. December 2002
Austria Center, Vienna
The Contemporaneousness of the Non-Contemporaneous
Die Gleichzeitigkeit des Ungleichzeitigen
Comparative Cultural Studies 1:
Culture, Cultural Policy, and the Medias
Homogenisation, Standardisation, Harmonisation,
Linguistic Turn, Iconic Turn,...
Where do we go from here
in an age of a globalised "Cyberculture"?
http://www.inst.at/kulturen/konf2002/workshop_ccs/ccs.htm

22. 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

23. SONDERSCHAU
GLOBALES LERNEN
Im Rahmen der “ Fliegenden Agenda“, Stand 9
„Zukünfte
brauchen Ideen/Visionen und Flügel“
Gemeinsam ganzheitlich lernen
Modelle und Ordnungen als Spiel- und Gestaltungsräume
zum Erkunden und Gestalten realer und virtueller „Realitäten“ (Imagination)
Heiner Benking
Millennium Project Berlin Co-Lab

24. 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

25. Open Forum, The Earth Charter in Action, June 26- 30, Urbino, Italy
Global Ecological Integrity, Human Rights, and Human Responsibilities:
Intersections Between International Law and Public Health, 2003, June 27- July 1
a selection of 6 slides for the
preview EDUCATION
in the open forum of
The Earth Charter in Action

26. TAGORE-EINSTEIN COUNCIL
Eighth International Tagore - Einstein Conference
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“
Heiner Benking
Independent Futurist and Facilitator

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

28. Gemeinsamer Kongress der Leibniz - Sozietät
und der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kybernetik
Berliner November 2003
Ha rn a c k – Ha u s , Ma x - P la n c k - G e s e lls c h a ft zu r F ö rde ru n g d e r Wis s e n s c h a fte n e . V .
Cybernetic Futures –
kybernetische Zukünfte
Heiner Benking
Independent Facilitator and Futurist

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

30. BBK - Berliner Bibliotheks-wissenschaftliches
Kolloqium 25. Mai 2004
Introducing the
2nd edition of the
International
Encyclopaedia
of Systems and
Cybernetics
Charles François, Heiner Benking
PLEASE VISIT: http://www.open-forum.de/encyclopedia-pragmatics/
http://benking.de/systems/encyclopedia/concepts-and-models.htm

31. WORLD
as PICTURE, as IKON, MODEL, ARTEFACT, NUMBER

32. Vegetarianism: Essential to Save the Planet?
TWITTER
UNFCCC
Mogens Dahl Koncertsal, -- Dec. 13, 2009
CopenVegan

33. Towards a New Renaissance 3
Harmonising Spirituality, Nature and Health
EMBODYING, HARMONIZING and SHARING
OLD AND NEW SPACES & TIMES
Sharing Commons in an Embodied Covenant [more]
Bringing together cultural expressions, sign systems,
perspectives and positionalities
Heiner Benking
Secretary Tagore-Einstein Council, Council of Global Issues,
Originator Open-Forum, PNW-Positive News Youth Views – Youth-Leader

34. Breaking Down New Walls
10th Annual Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Berlin, November, 9-11 2009
Third session:
Walls of menace to the Environment
Breaking down the walls that constrain environmental and sustainable
development prospects). [Audio and Video]
New Science, new Language, new Thinking ?
HOW ABOUT?
OLD and proven, traditional and NEW
Thinking and Doing and Sharing ?
• [more]: New Renaissance 3, UN COP15 – UNFCCC side events Copenhagen 2009,
Continuously updated this Blog: www.quergeist.info

35. Monday 17th October 2011, Institute National Genevois , 1204 Geneva
Introducing:
"A Democratic Approach to Sustainable Futures"
and the "Digital Peters“
Examples of CoLaboratory Dialog Design, Deliberation and Visualization Approaches
for shared Orientation, Understanding, Capacity-Building, and Actions
across Levels, Sectors, Languages, Terminologies, Scales and Mindsets
Heiner Benking
Council on Global Issues, Positive Nett-Works, 21stCentury Agora

36. Blind Spots and the Global Problematique,
Global Commons and a Global Embodied Covenant
– a work report and some concerns towards tackling
the Climate and Global Crisis
Heiner Benking
Independent Journalist, Facilitator, Consultant
Council on Global Issues & IHTEC & School Peace Gardens, UN-ECOSOC; Toronto
Tagore Einstein Council, Santiniketan, Berlin, INBAK, Berlin
Positive Nett-Works (PNW), Youth Leader E-zine, Hannover, Berlin
21stCenturyAgora – Open-Forum (PNW & web)

37. Ecological Theology and Environmental Ethics
ECOTHEE Orthodox Academy of Crete, June 2008
Missing Context and Orientations
in Modern Times
Outlining the Problematique of the Human Predicament
and sharing Commons in a global Embodied Covenant
Ignorance or Compassion?
Limits and potentials of human concepts,
maps and models with regard to nature
Heiner Benking
Ecological Awareness: Exploring Religion, Ethics and Aesthetics
Bd. 3, 208 S., Studies in Religion and the Environment
http://www.lit-verlag.de/isbn/3-8258-1950-7 published on behalf of the European
Forum for the Study of Religion and the Environment ISBN 978-3-8258-1950-7
February 2011

38. SAPREJ-12: Sustainable Alternatives for Poverty Reduction and Ecological Justice
Institute of Theology and Ecology of the OAC, International Ecological and Multidisciplinary Conferences
"Religion and Science can provide solutions for sustainability problems“ - September 29, 2012, OAC, Chania, Greece
Connecting dots and issues across scales, sectors, and cultures
Structured Dialogic Design and Deliberations: looking back 40 years, announcing the new
publication: STRATEGIC ARTICULATION OF ACTIONS TO COPE WITH THE HUGE
CHALLENGES OF OUR WORLD TODAY, and presenting project around the world, and
discussing future potentials for tackling highly complex challenges, creating policy options,
and socio-cultural cohesion across scales and media.
Local Host, Introduction and Moderation:
Maria Kakoulaki, Journalist, Board Member of "Institute for 21st Century Agoras“, Associate "Cyprus Future Worlds Center“
STRUCTURAL DIALOGIC DESIGN – state of the art SDD applications from Cyprus, Canada, USA,
Mexico, …
A MODEL DISCOVERD IS SUPERIOR TO A MODEL DELIVERED
Alexander Christakis, Founding President "Institute for 21st Century Agoras“
Coordination and Presentation:
A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO COPE WITH THE MILLENNIUM PROJECT 15 GLOBAL
CHALLENGES
Heiner Benking, Council of Global Issues, Tagore-Einstein-Council, Open-Forum, Independent Journalist and Scholar
part of the presentation is a short introduction of the new publication:
STRATEGIC ARTICULATION OF ACTIONS TO COPE WITH THE HUGE CHALLENGES
OF OUR WORLD TODAY - A Platform for Reflection by Reynaldo Treviño Cisneros and
Bethania Arango Hisijara

39. More slideshows can be found at: http://de.slideshare.net/benking/
articles at: http://independent.academia.edu/HeinerBenking