title:9.5 Insights from architecture
This note continues the exercise of envisioning the cognitive contributions of the arts to conferencing in the Year 2490.
1. Beyond "top-down" conference communication
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title:9.4 Insights from drama and dance
This note continues the exercise of envisioning the cognitive contributions of the arts to conferencing in the Year 2490.
1. Drama
title:9.3 Insights from poetry and painting
This note continues the exercise of envisioning the cognitive contributions of the arts to conferencing in the Year 2490.
1. Poetry
title:9.2 Insights from music
This note continues the exercise of envisioning the cognitive contributions of the arts to conferencing in the Year 2490.
1. Harmony and the language of music
title:9.1 Aesthetics of governance
1. Context
title:Envisioning conferencing
This section provides commentaries on envisioning conferencing related to the Transformative Approaches to Social Organization area of the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential
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title:8.7 Policy forums as metaphors
1. Constraints of meeting design
The organization of a meeting and its processes in fact provide a remarkable metaphor of wider society and the challenge of using resources more appropriately. To use Gregory Bateson's insight, "we are our own metaphor" (Bateson, 1972). The challenge of formulating more appropriate policies is highlighted by the difficulties in meeting design:
title:8.6 Structure of concluding declarations
Many perspectives need to interact to clarify the content of global declarations and render them appropriate. But there is also a need for expertise in new forms of order to clarify the dimensions which could influence the conceptual framework within which that content is presented. Such formal properties are a challenge to ways of thinking that have proved inadequate. They might include:
1. Consensus / Contention
title:8.5 Metaphors of transformation in conferences
1. Imagination barrier
title:8.4 Conceptual weaknesses of conferencing
It is useful to consider the following conceptual weaknesses in both electronic networking and in conventional face-to-face conferences:
1. Conceptual amnesia
The tendency for a network of participants to forget, or repress, points made in earlier time frames. Participants become addicted to novelty and devalue concepts articulated earlier. The ability to build a complex conceptual structure over time is therefore constantly undermined. Such amnesia is in effect a process of conceptual resource destruction.
2. Conceptual fade out
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