Footprints measure the consumption or “take” side, on the site of handprint you find that they want to dispay th positive or “mirror side:
“The Handprint analyses positive impacts on three interrelated aspects of action towards sustainability ; viz.; environment, society and the economy.” [more at: http://www.handsforchange.org/]
Mindprint looks into the design behind, how our thinking impacts our impacts, positive and negative, anthat we need to look into the “design” or “next-design” behind our actions. It is about bringing together the tangible and intangible, the exact and fine arts and sciences, nature and the humanities. Here is a nice “Call” for such work and a LOI for:
Harnessing Virtual Worlds for Arts and Humanities Research
See also work in 1996 outlining such a thinking and modeling in around the communities working on Creativity & Cognition and Visions and Design Conferences and how this is based on earlier work on metaphors (1994″ and later on analogies and agents (1998).
We have worked in the 90ies on T-personalities, lateral and diagonal thinking, mindscapes and a mind-book and how to augment the human intellect to be better able to share the new challenges of Cyberculture and Globalisation. Please come back as we will provide here some references.
Mindprint is about much more than just physical print-outs, it is about including the manifestations and representations, senses and sign systems, as using only one “channel” or one way of perception or expression is not enough and definitely not how living things work, eat, breathe, and exists. It is about resuming and resonnating to oneselves and others and all living and material things.
To address unprecedented challenges we have to not only in old and news ways of thinking and acting, but gain again some shared orientations. We called it an embodied covenant. http://benking.de/covenant/ more below…
As times are busy and critical we have little time to open and rewriting all there is already, this new book or internet portal is not about re-inventing the wheel but trying to help to connect, co-create and expand to be better able to tackle the challenges we face.
Maybe start here to get an idea what is meant and what we are basing our efforts on:
1001 Dialoges, 100001 Diversities, 10001 Seeds of Change http://open-forum.de/10001-Seeds.pdf
Earth Charter and an Embodied covenat, called also a House of Eyes, a World-House, or a common construct between Oikos, Ecumene, Ecudomy: http://benking.de/covenant/tagore/
sorry some of the above is only available in German or only on the way to transaltions:
http://benking.de/hagia-chora2005/english.html
http://benking.de/play/IPA-Benking-PANORAMA.htm
http://benking.de/systems/oikos-bamberg-Dateien/frame.htm
http://benking.de/cob-paris.html
http://benking.de/dialog/r-benking.html
http://www.inst.at/berge/virtualitaet/benking.htm
http://benking.de/gebser2001.html
http://benking.de/futures/Benking-ECOTHEE-2008.pdf http://benking.de/religion-ethics-ecology/ECOTHEE-2008-Dateien/frame.htm
or the recent Humanities Research Proposal highlighted above, hoping to give an idea of the width and magnitude, sectors, level, proportiaons and consequences we are talking here about “here and there”: http://quergeist.info/
