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| Heiner served the [[International Peace University project]] in the early 90ies and helped to establish the [[Club of Budapest]] as its first editor and international co-ordinator, after having been invited to serve as Creative Member. He worked with [[Robert Jungk]] in the early 90ies and established with Bob's collegue Rüdiger Lutz Future Lab in Basel. He presently serves in the Board of Positive Nett-Works, and IHTEC, and as secretary of the Council on Global Issues and the Tagore-Einstein-Council, he is in the founding board and in the Elders Wisdom Council of the Youth-Leader magazine <ref>[http://youth-leader.org Youth-Leader magazine Home Page]</ref> | | Heiner served the [[International Peace University project]] in the early 90ies and helped to establish the [[Club of Budapest]] as its first editor and international co-ordinator, after having been invited to serve as Creative Member. He worked with [[Robert Jungk]] in the early 90ies and established with Bob's collegue Rüdiger Lutz Future Lab in Basel. He presently serves in the Board of Positive Nett-Works, and IHTEC, and as secretary of the Council on Global Issues and the Tagore-Einstein-Council, he is in the founding board and in the Elders Wisdom Council of the Youth-Leader magazine <ref>[http://youth-leader.org Youth-Leader magazine Home Page]</ref> |
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| Heiner helped in the foundational phase (since 1993) to establish nodes and a cypernode and represented the Millennium Project and worked with ExperConsult and technology think- tanks like the Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing (FAW) in Ulm, Germany and The Club of Budapest. He is a technician, engineer, planner, consultant, communicator and facilitator with an academic background in engineering, planning and other studies ranging from geophysics to philosophy and including regional and global modeling geo-ecology and geomorphology, and computer graphics programming. Benking has served as a consultant and facilitator, writer, curator, and organizer - maybe he is an in-betweener, gate-crasher, go-getter, and starter. | | Heiner's work is not only about "sharing" but "gifting" in traditional and modern times and how and why this is central to our very fabrik of society and humanity. He has published about how we encourage and give voice for long <ref>[http://weturn.org/Spoons-Beads-Birds-Phaenomenon.pdf how we encourage and give voice for long; update is due in May 2016 in <b>Mother Pelican - A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability]</ref> |
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| He began using maps and models 1970s as a surveyor and geophysicist in exploration and planning on a regional and national level. In the 1980s he explored the realms of mapping and modelling further by using drafting, visualization and management software. Benking participated in several global change related gatherings, exhibitions, and conferences from 1988-1995, in particular the 1990 Global Change exhibition where he helped design posters and exhibits, and has build is Cognitive Space called Rubik's Cube of Ecology to help share and negotiate "Pointers to Possibilities". [http://weturn.org/pointers-to-possibilities.html]
| | Heiner was nominated by [[Future Worlds Center]] <ref>[http://benking.de/futures/HEINER-Nomination%20ALF%20Award-Benking-SUBMITTED.pdf] Heiner Benking (CV) [http://benking.de/futures/CV-Benking-ALF-2012_SUBMITTED.pdf] for the [[Anna Lindh Foundation, EuroMed Dialogue Award 2012: '''Youth for Change, Social Justice and a Shared Development'''. He was successfully "short-listed". |
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| In the past ten years Benking has focussed on education and policy-making. This has led to new forms of conferencing, dialogue and projects in knowledge organization, multi-lingual repositories, metaphors as interface projects, and culture navigation - defining reference rooms for library and museum information concepts. His activity areas range from Future studies to questions related to culture, cyberculture, creativity and cognition.
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| For more details pls visit Heiner's BLOG: [http://quergeist.info], the 21stCenturyAgora jumppage [http://21stCenturyAgora.org], his OPEN-FORUM dialog formats jump-page [http://open-forum.de], and his WIKIPEDIA User page (needs update !!): [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Benking]
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| and as recently retrieved (10/2011) quite incomplete publications as collected by Google Scholar: [http://benking.de/scholar/GOOGLE_SCHOLAR_October_2011%20_Heiner_Benking.htm]. He updates in his e-mail Signature File "hot" links and recent papers: [http://benking.de/hot/hot.html] recommended is the Youth Media portal Youth-Leader (http://youth-leader.org], the Anna-Lindh-Salon [http://anna-lindh-salon.de], and this TALK-COMMUNICATION video-clip http://vimeo.com/15945332 done for the Entrepreneurship Summit in Berlin: [http://fu-faltin.de/] or this Video from Berlin Speakers' Corner the Brandenburg gate: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzx5wXvAjbc], or the Slides and Interview at Nobel Peace Laureas gathering "breaking down new wall":[http://quergeist.net/Peace-Laueats-Climate-Berlin-Oslo-selection.pdf] or at the Earthfocus Foundation in Geneva: [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmp663_heiner-benking-interview_tech]
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| His work is not only about "sharing" but "gifting" in traditional and modern times and how and why this is central to our very fabrik of society and humanity. He has published obout how we encourage and give voice for long: http://weturn.org/Spoons-Beads-Birds-Phaenomenon.pdf An update is due in May 2016 in <b>Mother Pelican - A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability</b> as the foundational and third part covering his work from many aspects: [http://pelicanweb.org/searchresults.html?cx=010446234064063335212%3A-r60rvqu0t8&cof=FORID%3A11&q=benking&sa=Search]
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| Heiner nominated Yiannis Laouris (FWC) in 2010 for the [[Anna Lindh Award to Future Worlds Center]]. 2 years later Yiannis Laouris nominated [http://benking.de/futures/HEINER-Nomination%20ALF%20Award-Benking-SUBMITTED.pdf] Heiner Benking (CV) [http://benking.de/futures/CV-Benking-ALF-2012_SUBMITTED.pdf] for the Anna-Lindh-Foundation '''EuroMed Dialogue Award 2012''': '''Youth for Change, Social Justice and a Shared Development''' successfully, Heiner was "short-listed"...
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