Forms of Presentation and the Future of Comprehension

Sections of this Article (accessed via the links on the right)

• Wanted : New Types of Social Entity (1971)
• The Associative Society of the Future (1972)
• The World Network of Organizations: a symbol for the 1970s (1972)
• Networking: the need for a new concept (1974)
• The Network Alternative (1977)
• Network-Related concepts (1979)

Published in: International Associations 25, March, pp. 138-144.

Introduction

To avoid confusion, repetition, and sterile debate in governmental or nongovernmental assemblies, some clear statement describing the open society into which we see ourselves moving is required, together with some description of the nature, functioning and interrelationship of the social entities which are seen as having their place in it.

Originally published in International Associations, 1973, pp. 398-404 as an abridged and modified version of the final part of the report of Seminar on the Philosophy and Functioning of International Nongovernmental Organization (Milan, May 1972).

Introduction

The following points must be borne in mind in identifying practical changes for future organizational action (see also Principles of Transnational Action):

Paper presented to a Workshop on Needs (Berlin, May 1978) organized by the International Institute for Environment and Society and The GPID project. Reprinted from: Katrin Lederer (Ed) in cooperation with Johan Galtung and David Antal: Human Needs; a contribution to the current debate. Konigstein, Verlag Anton Hain, 1980.

Paper presented at a symposium of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (139th Meeting, Philadelphia, December 1971): Value and Knowledge Requirements for Peace.

Paper presented to the Internationale Konferenz Bedingungen des Lebens in der Zukunft und ihre Folgen für die Erziehung (Berlin, November 1978).

Paper for the Conference on Conceptual and Terminological Analysis in the Social Sciences (Bielefeld, 1981) sponsored by Committee on Conceptual and Terminological Analysis (COCTA) and International Federation for Documentation (FID).

Introduction

A number of biases seem to manifest themselves frequently in the process of thesaurus construction. These biases are inherently anti-developmental, introduce distortions into the design process and constitute obstacles to social development. The effect of these biases is particularly serious in the social science domain.

Report of a meeting (Geneva, 1979) of the sub-project on Forms of Presentation (FoP) of the Goals, Processes and Indicators of Development (GPID) project of the United Nations University.

Statement of basic problems

a) What are the forms of presentation accessible to people in general?

b) What are the forms of presentation which permit some feedback?

Points raised in discussion

Sections of this Article (accessed via the links on the right)

• Forms of Presentation: report of a meeting (1979)
• Tentative overview of forms of communication
• Anti-Developmental Biases in Thesaurus Design (1982)
• Organization and Lifestyle Design: Characteristics of a nonverbal structural language (1978)
• Computer-aided Visualization of Psycho-social Structures (1971)
• Needs Communication: viable need patterns and their identification (1980)