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He began using maps and models 1970s as a surveyor and geophysicist in exploration and planning on a regional and national level. In the 1980s he explored the realms of mapping and modelling further by using drafting, visualization and management software. Benking participated in several global change related gatherings, exhibitions, and conferences from 1988-1995, in particular the 1990 Global Change exhibition where he helped design posters and exhibits, and has build is Cognitive Space called Rubik's Cube of Ecology to help share and negotiate "Pointers to Possibilities". [http://weturn.org/pointers-to-possibilities.html] | He began using maps and models 1970s as a surveyor and geophysicist in exploration and planning on a regional and national level. In the 1980s he explored the realms of mapping and modelling further by using drafting, visualization and management software. Benking participated in several global change related gatherings, exhibitions, and conferences from 1988-1995, in particular the 1990 Global Change exhibition where he helped design posters and exhibits, and has build is Cognitive Space called Rubik's Cube of Ecology to help share and negotiate "Pointers to Possibilities". [http://weturn.org/pointers-to-possibilities.html] | ||
Brief Profile from General Thinking website: http://GeneralThinking.com/HEiner | |||
I had a couple of lifes: technician and engineer, planner, consultant, sales and marketing, infographics coiner, environmental management and research, curator, futurist, educator, facilitator, ... in fields as wide as: environmental education, culture, youth, media,... My funcion is capacitity building along and across scales and cultures in an appreciative, attentive style typical for concerned generalists, thinkers, in-betweeners, hazardeurs, trimtabs, and go-getters... to open dialog and deliberations towards shared positive futures. | |||
In a nutshell: <b>Journalist - Facilitator - Consultant</b> | |||
Below is a collection of some more details as collected over the years for the FUTURE WORLDS CENTER practitioners wiki: | |||
In the past ten years Benking has focussed on education and policy-making. This has led to new forms of conferencing, dialogue and projects in knowledge organization, multi-lingual repositories, metaphors as interface projects, and culture navigation - defining reference rooms for library and museum information concepts. His activity areas range from Future studies to questions related to culture, cyberculture, creativity and cognition. | In the past ten years Benking has focussed on education and policy-making. This has led to new forms of conferencing, dialogue and projects in knowledge organization, multi-lingual repositories, metaphors as interface projects, and culture navigation - defining reference rooms for library and museum information concepts. His activity areas range from Future studies to questions related to culture, cyberculture, creativity and cognition. | ||
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and this Interview - due December 2016: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MIiVq4x3Idv74cvnQmSxl1Fthz50KJbRdvH7jlOvr-8/edit?usp=sharing | and this Interview - due December 2016: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MIiVq4x3Idv74cvnQmSxl1Fthz50KJbRdvH7jlOvr-8/edit?usp=sharing | ||
and the Sharing and Gifting Article - work in progress for MOTHER PELICAN May 2016: (as mentioned above): https://docs.google.com/document/d/196szQuv_X9FmTbb15AxIkaMOf3lwZ0KqyspSuPmOBak/edit?usp=sharing and there for example footnote [24] about re-inventing Democracy in the article: <b>A Humane Information Society or Information War ? Reflections about Societies, Cultures, Human Potentials and Tools such as: Filters, Brokers, Agents, Knowbots, and Maps, Global Learn Day 1998</b> - benking.de/global-learn-day.htm and in the broader context of Dialogue and Consciousness the David Bohm Dialogues Ljubljana 1998: http://benking.de/powerpoint/Bohm_Dialogues-IS98-GLD-Ljubljana.pdf | and the Sharing and Gifting Article - work in progress for MOTHER PELICAN May 2016: (as mentioned above): https://docs.google.com/document/d/196szQuv_X9FmTbb15AxIkaMOf3lwZ0KqyspSuPmOBak/edit?usp=sharing and there for example this footnote [24] about re-inventing Democracy in the article: <b>A Humane Information Society or Information War ? Reflections about Societies, Cultures, Human Potentials and Tools such as: Filters, Brokers, Agents, Knowbots, and Maps, Global Learn Day 1998</b> - benking.de/global-learn-day.htm and in the broader context of Dialogue and Consciousness the David Bohm Dialogues Ljubljana 1998: http://benking.de/powerpoint/Bohm_Dialogues-IS98-GLD-Ljubljana.pdf | ||