An instance of a knowledge federation
Jack Park
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w
I offer no defense to any of the myriad of challenges people can (and
will) raise to the many strong premises and claims made in the video,
and don't invite those challenges in this venue; we have the ability
to mount sensemaking practices in facilities much better suited than
an email list.
But, I suggest watching the entire video if you are interested in a
federation of topics that start with the neuropsychology of crime, and
cover systems theory, architecture, sociology, cultural change and way
more than that, all under the umbrella: sustainability.
The video is that of a story that is built to defend and promote a
gigantic premise, one espoused here:
http://www.thevenusproject.com/
I claim that the video tries to cover a sufficiently large number of
dimensions of the problem space that it could (I would argue: should)
be issue mapped on some sort of collective basis. That yields a
structured record of the ebbs and flows of issues and positions
captured in the video, from which projects on fact checking and so
forth would yield to further projects which take the overriding
premises as a point of departure in search of alternatives in the
quest for solutions to global sustainability.
Jack