Forms of Presentation and the Future of Comprehension

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Collection of papers arising from work in connection with the Goals, Processes and Indicators of Development (GPID) project of the United Nations University (UNU). Published under that title by the Union of International Associations (Brussels, 1984). [searchable PDF version]
Aspects of the points discussed in this volume are treated in the other four volumes of papers in the series: Policy Alternation for Development (1984), Patterns of Conceptual Integration (1984), From Networking to Tensegrity Organization (1984), and Transformative Conferencing (1984). These  themes  are also explored in the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential (Munich,  K G Saur,  1985, ca 1500 pages).

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Forms of Presentation and the Future of Comprehension
Introduction

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Introduction

I. Constraints on presenting action-oritented information [searchable PDF version]

• Minding the Future: a thought experiment on presenting new information (1980)
• Principles of the Conscientized International Expert: political correctness in international initiatives (1979)
• Mobilization of Public Opinion: yesterday's response to today's problems (1979)
• A new global organizational order
• Displacement of the wood by the trees

II. Language as a constraint [searchable PDF version]

• Languages Terminology and Mindsets (1974)
• Social science terminology: problems and possibilities arising from use of several languages (1973)
• Conceptual Gaps and Confused Distinctions: possible ambiguities in the translation of interrelated concepts (1974)

III. Societal learning and the international communty [searchable PDF version]

• Societal Learning and the Erosion of Collective Memory: a critique of the Club of Rome Report (1980)
• Functional Classification in an Integrative Matrix of Human Preoccupations (1982)

IV. Information mapping [searchable PDF version]

• Mapping Possibilities in Response to Information Needs of Science Policy-making for Development (1978)
• Interrelating Viewpoints in Complex Meetings: the Horus wall-display technique (1978)
• Mapping World Problems (1972)
• Use of Interactive Graphic Display Techniques (1976)

V. Complexity and comprehension [searchable PDF version]

• Complexity: its constraints on social innovation (1977)
• Categorical Straitjackets: PO - a suggestion for a depatterning device for international organization descriptions (1974)
• The Future of Comprehension: conceptual birdcages and functional basket-weaving (1980)
• The Territory Construed as the Map: in search of radical design innovations in the representation of human activities and their relationships (1976)
• Knowledge-Representation in a Computer-Supported Environment (1977)

Annexes [all in searchable PDF version]

1. Forms of Presentation: report of a meeting (1979) [searchable PDF version]
2. Tentative overview of forms of communication [searchable PDF version]
3. Anti-Developmental Biases in Thesaurus Design (1982) [searchable PDF version]
4. Organization and Lifestyle Design: Characteristics of a nonverbal structural language (1978) [searchable PDF version]
5. Computer-aided Visualization of Psycho-social Structures (1971) [searchable PDF version]
6. Needs Communication: viable need patterns and their identification (1980) [searchable PDF version]

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