Home Overview Projects Method Visuals Resources Context Associates Contact Overview   Significance of the domain name: www.un-intelligible.org Challenge to comprehension implied by the logo Knowledge Management Initiatives Intent exemplified by Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential Intent reframed within the Union of International Associations Reclaiming the heritage of misappropriated collective endeavour Intent exemplified by Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential   Press releases Contextual Concerns Existential Challenge Strategic Assumptions Objectives Significance Distinguishing Uses of the Encyclopedia Uses of the Encyclopedia Interactive Access and Future developments Section Interrelationships Comprehension of Sustainable Integration Encyclopedia Illusions: Rationale for an Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential Press releases   Cycles de problèmes vicieux et stratégies dissipatrices (Nov 1996) Sustainable Strategies vs Cycles of Vicious Problems (March 1996) International Organization Data on CD-ROM (Dec 1995) Sustainable Strategies vs Cycles of Vicious Problems (Sept 1995) Sustainable Development of the Individual? (Jan 1995) A la chasse de cycles vicieux de problemes(1994) Australians Hunting 10,000 World Problems in Brussels (1994) Mapping Pandora's Heritage (1988) Intent reframed within the Union of International Associations   Multi-dimensional long-term commitment Paradoxical and "negative" viability Integrated strategic context Long-term viability Civil society and ethical commitment Knowledge management & Reference information Audiences, recognition & "re-presentation" Research, publications & comprehension Information culture / Ongoing work / Projects Multi-dimensional long-term commitment   Multi-dimensional scope Continuity & Future orientation Paradoxical and "negative" viability   Paradoxical viability "Negative capability" Integrated strategic context   Governance context Integrated databases Long-term viability   Self-financing capacity Innovative capacity (Application development) Production capacity Civil society and ethical commitment   Civil society (NGOs) Ethical commitment Facilitation services Knowledge management & Reference information   Reference information Knowledge organization Multimedia / Web Audiences, recognition & "re-presentation"   Interfaces / Audiences Recognition "Re-presentation" Research, publications & comprehension   Research & Statistics Publications Complexity comprehension Information culture / Ongoing work / Projects   Information culture Ongoing work Projects Reclaiming the heritage of misappropriated collective endeavour   Conflicting claims to territory and property: real or virtual "Existence" of collective entities Value context Deprecated arguments Exploitation of contractual relationships Reclaiming a heritage Projects   Projects overview Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential Articulation / Implementation of web strategy Systematic solicitation of institutional project funding Cessation of the Union of Intelligible Associations Projects overview   World problems project Global strategies project Human development project Human values project Integrative knowledge project Metaphor and patterns project Transformative approaches project Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential   1972-1976: Yearbook 1983-1995: Editions 2,3,4 and CD 1997-2000: Web-based developments Articulation / Implementation of web strategy   Simulating a global brain Diversitas bid for management of the .ORG web domain registry Systematic solicitation of institutional project funding   Ecolynx: Information Context for Biodiversity Conservation Interactive Conceptual Environmental Planning Tool for Developing Countries Cultivating Knowledge Ecosystems: adapting visual arts and music Local Action Dynamics: Knowledge patterns for the Lisbon Strategy Global Knowledge Grid for Understanding Globalization CiviLynx: Gateway to Civil Society Organization Information Cessation of the Union of Intelligible Associations   Enabling a Living Library Generating a Million Questions from UIA Databases Method   Explanatory commentaries on set of projects Explanatory commentaries on World Problems Project Explanatory commentaries on Global Strategies Project Explanatory commentaries on Human Development Project Explanatory commentaries on Integrative Knowledge Project Explanatory commentaries on Human Values Project Explanatory commentaries on Transformative Approaches Project Explanatory commentaries on Metaphors/Patterns Project Visuals   Selected presentations of interrelationships between UIA databases Selected Screen-shots of Problem and Organization Networks in Virtual Reality (PDF images) Network visualizations (PDF images) Gallery of screen shots of virtual reality displays (interrelated problems or organizations) Experimental representations of entity interrelationships (using SVG) NetMap visualizations of questions, world problems, global strategies, and values Network visualizations (PDF images)   2001: Spring maps (organizations, problems, strategies, values) 2002: Network analyses (organizations, problems, strategies, values) 2003: Network analyses (organizations, problems, strategies, values) 2004: Network analyses (organizations, problems, strategies, values) NetMap visualizations of questions, world problems, global strategies, and values   Problems and strategies: Energy / Water / Strategies against violence Questions: Peace-related / Faith/Prosperity-related Pattern-language Human values Resources   Specific documents Collections of documents Other documentary resources Context   Association context (map) Complementary initiatives Research resources Historical associations Complementary initiatives   Cognitive Fusion Reactor (ITER-8) Union of Imaginable Associations University of Earth Union of the Whys Research resources   Laetus in Praesens Historical associations   Union of Intelligible Associations Union of International Associations Mankind 2000 / Humanité 2000

Projects Overview (Explanations) Metaphors Project Explanatory Comments Metaphors Project 1. Significance of Metaphors Project Forms of presentation Cognitive role of metaphor Metaphor, analogy, symbol and pattern Root metaphors and social organization Generative metaphor and policy-making Patterns of concepts Communication through symbols Degradation of symbolic forms 2. Challenge Contemporary crisis of governance Epistemological crisis of governance Unsustainable policies Comprehending complexity and appropriateness Comprehending any new social order Metaphor as an unexplored resource in a time of challenge Transcending the "switch" metaphor Transcending methodological limitations Imaginal deficiency and simplistic metaphors Imaginal deficiency in management and policy-making Distinguishing extended metaphors Designing metaphors and sets of metaphors 3. Governance Programme of metaphoric development From governing metaphors to governance through metaphor Governance through enhancing the movement of meaning Appropriate metaphors of sustainable development Enhancing policy through powerful metaphors Comprehending policy meshing and entrainment Metaphor as a language for global governance 4. Opportunity Reframing problems as metaphors Reframing the problem of "overpopulation" Reframing cooperation through metaphor Pattern language experiments Metaphoric revolution for the individual Metaphor as an unexplored resource for transdisciplinarity "Re-reading" patterns of concepts 5. Comments Future possibilities and dangers  From Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential

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