Heiner_Benking

Heiner Benking
(* 08.12.1951 in Dortmund)
Independent facilitator, writer, curator, scientist, consultant, futurist,...
Heiner is a diagonal or lateral thinker (Quergeist) trained as technician, engineer (geodetics) with studies ranging from geophysics, to economy and philosophy and professional focus on managent and marketing, coordination/communication, computer graphics and cisualisation and multi-lingual/cultural knowledge organisation.

His focus is on Culture-Cyberculture, environment, education, technopolical and societal/international policy and media / sign-theory / general systems& model theory and pragmatics&ethics.

He is cofounder of http://linux.infoterm.org/infoterm-e/i-infoterm.htm?raiso639-1_start.htm~Mitte, Wien (Normal Member), Open-Forum http://open-forum.de/, Berlin, BIC http://berlinoetics.de/, Berlin, .... and had clients and associations with international and national organisations (GO`s und NGO`s), foundations, fairs, clubs, associations, and companies of many kinds.
He is now curator of the "remants" of the GLOBAL CHANGE exhibition from 1990 and worked in the field of meta-databases and harmonisation. http://benking.de/Global-Change/system-earth-posters.html http://www.ceptualinstitute.com/genre/benking/harmonization/harmonization.htm

His Volunatary positions include Board Member with Positive Nettworks http://p-n-w.net, PNYV http//pnyv.org, IHTEC http://ihtec.org, and serves as secretary at the Tagore-Einstein Council http://tagore-einstein-council.de, CGI http://c-g-i.info.
He serves as staff for international youth community services http://ijgd.de responsible for "development" or call it innovation and communication.

Past positions included: town and stateplanning in the 70ies, Computer Graphics: Automation Group, San Diego, Compute Graphics World, Autrol and Uniras in the 80ies, Mangement, Marketing, Technology, Sterategy Consulting: eg. ExperConsult in the 80ies, again international co-oprdination and Harmonisation, 88-92, FAW Think Tank, the Club of Budapest and the International Society for Panetics in various capacitities in the 90ies, or the International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics Academic Advisory Board. see http://benking.de/systems/encyclopedia

What is new?
maybe you like

• DIALOGUE and CONVERSATIONS WORLDUNITYDAYS / World Democracy VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM http://benking.de/dialog/dialogues-conversations/
• DEMOCRATIC SCHOOLS: http://benking.de/educations/idec2006/index-Dateien/frame.htm

• EARTH LITERACY and MAP & MODEL ALPHABETISATION: http://in-betweener.org/flatworlds/maps/earth-literacy.html
• old and new cultural learning seminar: http://www.inst.at/trans/15Nr/08_3/08_3inhalt.htm
• "covenant" proposal: http://benking.de/covenant/sld001.htm

Acitivities center around:

• S H A R I N G VOICES http://benking.de/dialog/,
• S H A R I N G SPACES http://benking.de/culture/,
• S H A R I N G FUTURES http://benking.de/futures/

Preliminary working "field"-categories are

• Culture http://benking.de/culture/,
• Education http://benking.de/education/,
• Challenges to science and Politics / Integral (Global) CHANGE http://benking.de/Global-Change/,
• Dialog http://benking.de/dialog/,
• Systems http://benking.de/systems/, ...

A good entry to my work is the KnowMap "profile": http://www.knowmap.com/contributors/benking.html or "BENKING IN BRIEF" (one page plus 12 graphs) http://benking.de/benking-in-brief.html

My Websites
Private Jump-Page: http://benking.de http://benking.de/
BLOG: http://quergeist.info a site with short Impressions from my way...

• NEWCIV http://newciv.org/cob/members/benking/, Californien (since 1993)
• ISSS Wholeness Seminar http://www.newciv.org/ISSS_Primer/seminar.html (since 1995)
• Ceptual Institute http://www.ceptualinstitute.com/genre/benking/homepageHB.htm, Nevada

(since 1996)

• Anette Schlemm’s Philosophy Page: http://www.thur.de/philo/benking.htm
• Open-Forum.de http://open-forum.de/ since 1998

Last not least:

• Co-forum WIKI http://coforum.de/index.php4?HeinerBenking since 2000
• and the GERMAN & ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA User-pages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Benking

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