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• [2010] Designing Global Self-governance for the Future (159k, 171w)
• [2010] Interweaving Thematic Threads and Learning Pathways (93k, 125w)
• [2010] Patterns Essential to Individual and Global Health? (95k, 107w)
• [2010] Strategic Embodiment of Time: Configuring questions fundamental to change (163k, 89w)
• [2010] Warp and Weft of Future Governance (153k, 113w)
• [2009] Conversion of Strategic Bullets into Global Accomplishment (10k, 15w)
• [2009] Design of Future Cognition * (6k, 3w)
• [2009] Global Strategic Alternatives for the 21st Century? (6k, 11w)
• [2009] Global Street Twinning in Polyhedral Configurations (51k, 55w)
• [2009] If... (4k)
• [2009] Periodic Pattern of Human Knowing (131k, 122w)
• [2009] Periodic Pattern of Human Life (93k, 103w)
• [2009] Strategic Jousting through Poetic Wrestling (40k, 34w)
• [2009] Towards a Generic Global Issue Statement: Template (35k, 13w)
• [2009] Varieties of Confidence Essential to Sustainability (22k, 29w)
• [2008] Animation of Classical BaGua Arrangements: a dynamic representation of Neti Neti (47k, 32w)
• [2008] Coherent Value Frameworks: Pillar-ization, Polarization and Polyhedral frames of reference (111k, 104w)
• [2008] Configuring Global Governance Groups: Experimental animations and video sequences (9k, 19w)
• [2008] Configuring Global Governance Groups: Experimental visualization of possible integrative relationships (19k, 33w)
• [2008] Configuring Global Governance Issues: Experimental animations and video sequences (8k, 19w)
• [2008] Dynamic Exploration of Value Configurations: Interrelating traditional cultural symbols through animation (78k, 79w)
• [2008] Dynamic Exploration of Value Configurations: Polyhedral animation of conventional value frameworks (19k, 17w)
• [2008] Dynamics of Symmetry Group Theorizing (130k, 109w)
• [2008] In Quest of a Strategic Pattern Language: a new architecture of values (16k, 31w)
• [2008] Polyhedral Conference Representation as a Catalyst for Innovation (4k, 9w)
• [2008] Polyhedral Pattern Language: Software facilitation of emergence, representation and transformation of psycho-social organization (218k, 211w)
• [2008] Polyhedral Representation of Conference Dynamics: integrative configuration of panelists, dialogues, topics and threads (15k, 17w)
• [2008] Stepping into, or through, the Mirror: embodying alternative scenario patterns (49k, 53w)
• [2008] Strategic Patterns in terms of Knowing, Feeling and Action (67k, 359w)
• [2008] Sustainability through Magically Dancing Patterns (156k, 89w)
• [2008] Topology of Valuing: dynamics of collective engagement with polyhedral value configurations (219k, 163w)
• [2008] Topology of Valuing: psychodynamics of collective engagement with polyhedral value configurations (98k, 93w)
• [2007] BYO: More Meaningful Patterns of Consumption * (3k)
• [2007] Consciously Self-reflexive Global Initiatives: Renaissance zones, complex adaptive systems, and third order organizations (131k, 160w)
• [2007] Einstein's Implicit Theory of Relativity -- of Cognitive Property? Unexamined influence of patent office procedures (59k, 35w)
• [2007] Emergence of a Global Misleadership Council: misleading as vital to governance of the future? (125k, 144w)
• [2007] Potential Psychosocial Significance of Monstrous Moonshine: an exceptional form of symmetry as a Rosetta stone for cognitive frameworks (226k, 185w)
• [2007] Psychosocial Energy from Polarization: within a cyclic pattern of Enantiodromia (189k, 160w)
• [2007] Theories of Correspondences -- and potential equivalences between them in correlative thinking (124k, 73w)
• [2007] Transforming Static Websites into Mobile "Wizdomes": enabling change through intertwining dynamic and configurative metaphors (128k, 113w)
• [2007] University of Earth: Questing for a more comprehensive dream (3k, 10w)
• [2006] Council of the Whys: emergent wisdom through configuration of why-question dynamics (162k, 217w)
• [2006] Creative Cognitive Engagement: Beyond the limitations of descriptive patterning (103k, 92w)
• [2006] Decorating Pigeon Coops and Animal Farms * (4k, 1w)
• [2006] Distinguishing Levels and Patterns of Strategic Obsolescence (29k, 24w)
• [2006] Enabling a Living Library: reconciling "free voices" and "intellectual propriety" (20k, 46w)
• [2006] Ensuring Strategic Resilience through Haiku Patterns: reframing the scope of the "martial arts" in response to strategic threats (140k, 185w)
• [2006] Generating a Million Questions from UIA Databases: Problems, Strategies, Values (88k, 29w)
• [2006] Governance through Pattern Language: creative cognitive engagement contrasted with abdication of responsibility (28k, 49w)
• [2006] Handing Over: Handy metaphors for the communication of intent (68k, 80w)
• [2006] Preliminary Netmap Studies of Databases on Questions, World Problems, Global Strategies, and Values (26k, 13w)
• [2006] Towards a Periodic Table of Questions: strategic opportunities from ordering WH-questions (58k, 1w)
• [2006] Tracing a Pattern * (20k)
• [2006] Veiling: religion, privacy, modesty and security * (9k, 1w)
• [2006] Walking Elven Pathways: enactivating the pattern that connects (76k, 71w)
• [2006] 9-fold Magic Square Pattern of Tao Te Ching Insights (136k, 89w)
• [2005] Humour and Play-Fullness: Essential integrative processes in governance, religion and transdisciplinarity (176k, 147w)
• [2005] Imagination, Resolution, Emergence, Realization and Embodiment: iterative comprehension ordered via the dynamics of the Mandelbrot set (9k, 3w)
• [2005] Integrative Design Metaphors: enabling strategic comprehension of the global brain * (9k, 3w)
• [2005] Playfully Changing the Prevailing Climate of Opinion: Climate change as focal metaphor of effective global governance (199k, 247w)
• [2005] Psycho-social Significance of the Mandelbrot Set: a sustainable boundary between chaos and order (74k, 53w)
• [2005] Recognized role of humour: in politics, leadership, religion and creativity (92k, 99w)
• [2004] Channelling Awareness through Patterns * (5k)
• [2004] Configuring Conceptual Polarities in Questing: metaphoric pointers to self-reflexive coherence (45k, 27w)
• [2004] Confusion in the Moment of Dialogue: Checklist of patterns of behaviour and attitude inhibiting better dialogue (5k, 9w)
• [2004] Distinguishing Emergent Conceptual Polarities: experimental ordering of a collection of research papers (93k, 491w)
• [2004] DNA Supercoiling as a Pattern for Understanding Psycho-social Twistedness (30k, 11w)
• [2004] Engaging with Questions of Higher Order: cognitive vigilance required for higher degrees of twistedness (127k, 118w)
• [2004] Functional Complementarity of Higher Order Questions: psycho-social sustainability modelled by coordinated movement (75k, 49w)
• [2004] Spherical Accounting: Using geometry to embody developmental integrity (111k, 127w)
• [2004] Varieties of Rebirth: distinguishing ways of being born again (59k, 59w)
• [2004] Web Resources on Being Born Again: Annex to Varieties of Rebirth (66k, 31w)
• [2003] Challenges of Renaissance: suggestive pattern of concerns in the light of the birth metaphor (15k, 22w)
• [2003] Complementary Patterns of Meaningful Truth and the Interface between Alternative Variants (46k, 34w)
• [2003] Evoking Authenticity: through polyhedral global configuration of local paradoxes (116k, 120w)
• [2003] Hyperspace Clues to the Psychology of the Pattern that Connects in the light of 81 Tao Te Ching insights (105k, 84w)
• [2003] Musical Articulation of Pattern of Tao Te Ching Insights: Experimental sonification based on magic square organization (43k, 27w)
• [2003] Patterns of the Past: Christian Complicity in Global Disorder (116k, 99w)
• [2003] Tao Te Ching Interpreted Succinctly: a 9-fold pattern of 81 insights presented as phrases (31k, 169w)
• [2003] Tao Te Ching Interpreted Succinctly (Alternative Order): a 9-fold pattern of 81 insights presented as phrases (30k, 169w)
• [2003] Timeship: Conception, Technology, Design, Embodiment and Operation (64k, 46w)
• [2003] Towards Fruitful Patterns of Faith-based Governance (91k, 94w)
• [2003] 9-fold Higher Order Patterning of Tao Te Ching Insights (80k, 65w)
• [2002] Patterning Archetypal Templates of Emergent Order: implications of diamond faceting for enlightening dialogue (135k, 94w)
• [2002] Summary of Gemstone Faceting and Crystals: Patterning Archetypal Templates of Emergent Order (27k, 32w)
• [2002] Warping the Judgement of Dissenting Opinion: towards a general framework for comparing distortion in rules of evidence (81k, 158w)
• [2001] Coherent Patterns of Schism Formation, Bifurcation and Disagreement (15k)
• [2001] Composing and Engendering the Future: Presenting the Future (Part 4) (42k, 21w)
• [2001] Composing the Present Moment: celebrating the insights of Marsilio Ficino (21k, 2w)
• [2001] Embodying the Sphere of Change (20k, 11w)
• [2000] Designing Cultural Rosaries and Meaning Malas to Sustain Associations within the Pattern that Connects (57k, 43w)
• [2000] Designing a Team for Alien Encounter: Communicating with Aliens (Part IV) (25k, 50w)
• [2000] Distinguishing Patterns of Assumption in Dialogue with Aliens: Communicating with Aliens (Part III) (84k, 11w)
• [2000] Is the House of Mathematics in Order? (14k, 1w)
• [2000] Knowledge Gardening through Music: patterns of coherence for future African management as an alternative to Project Logic (159k, 82w)
• [1999] Coordination through Templates of Thematic Relationships (6k, 3w)
• [1999] Intelli-work: Procedural Framework for the Interoperability of Decentralized Knowledge Management Processes (28k)
• [1998] Developing an Internet Framework for Creative Dialogue on Irreconcilable Policy Differences (7k)
• [1998] Discovering richer patterns of comprehension to reframe polarization (69k, 1w)
• [1998] Discovering richer patterns of comprehension to reframe polarization (22k)
• [1998] Feedback on Discovering Richer Patterns of Comprehension (31k, 2w)
• [1998] Living Differences as a basis for Sustainable Community: Designing a difference engine (74k, 29w)
• [1998] Spherical configuration of interlocking roundtables: Internet enhancement of global self-organization through patterns of dialogue (42k, 41w)
• [1998] Sustaining a pattern of alternative community initiatives: based on their differences from the conventional economic rationale (26k, 4w)
• [1997] Paradigm Leaps: Intrinsic Determination of Conceptual Patterning (12k)
• [1997] Pattern of Sustainable Community Participant Roles (3k, 1w)
• [1997] Sustaining the Coherence of Dialogue through Apartness: configuration of entities through hypertext (26k, 1w)
• [1996] From Information Highways to Songlines of the Noosphere: Global configuration of hypertext pathways as a prerequisite for meaningful collective transformation (62k, 7w)
• [1996] The International School of Ignorance ?: an ongoing experiment in dialogue meeting design (7k)
• [1996] The International School of Ignorance ?: an ongoing experiment in online dialogue meeting design (13k)
• [1996] Towards a web framework for synthesis in dialogue: insight capture from the flow of conference interventions (12k)
• [1995] A musical key from a political philosopher (Patterns of alternation: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] A new global organizational order? (Insights: Human Values Project)
• [1995] Alternation between complementary policy conditions (Patterning: Transformative Approaches Project)
• [1995] An agricultural key from crop rotation (Patterns of alternation: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Classification and section attribution (Patterning problems: World Problems Project)
• [1995] Classification and section attribution (Patterning strategies: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Competing Models and Visions of Global Order via Function Dominance (Configuring strategic dilemmas in intersectoral dialogue)
• [1995] Comprehending any new social order (Challenge: Metaphor Project)
• [1995] Computer representation of problem networks (Patterning problems: World Problems Project)
• [1995] Concept refinement process (Patterning problems: World Problems Project)
• [1995] Concept refinement process (Patterning strategies: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Conceptual scaffolding and prosthetics (Configuring: Transformative Approaches Project)
• [1995] Configuring Relationships between world problems and cognitive resources (5k)
• [1995] Configuring strategic dilemmas in intersectoral dialogue (Strategic ecosystem: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Configuring Strategic Dilemmas in Intersectoral Dialogue (Transformative Approaches Project)
• [1995] Configuring strategic trajectories (Strategic ecosystem: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Constraints on patterning disagreement (Method: Integrative Knowledge Project)
• [1995] Cycles of dissonance and resonance (Patterns of alternation: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Cycles of winning and losing (Patterns of alternation: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Definitional Boundary Games and De-signing the 21st Century (19k)
• [1995] Design choices for global coherence (Context: Transformative Approaches Project)
• [1995] Designing the 21st Century: Integration of Arts and Sciences (16k, 1w)
• [1995] Designing metaphors and sets of metaphors (Challenge: Metaphor Project)
• [1995] Designing a strategic array (Collective strategy-making: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Embodiment in patterns of alternation (Comments: Human Development Project)
• [1995] Entropic crisis and the learning response (Patterns of alternation: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Framework for interrelating incompatible perspectives (Significance: World Problems Project)
• [1995] Geometry of organizations, policies and programmes (Configuring: Transformative Approaches Project)
• [1995] Global configuration from number theory (Patterning: Transformative Approaches Project)
• [1995] Health and space-time and development strategy (Pattern learning: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Inter-sectoral Strategic Dilemmas of Sustainable Development (Configuring strategic dilemmas in intersectoral dialogue)
• [1995] Interrelating incompatible viewpoints (Patterning: Transformative Approaches Project)
• [1995] Language games (Patterning problems: World Problems Project)
• [1995] Metaphor, analogy, symbol and pattern (Significance: Metaphor Project)
• [1995] Order through chaos (Embodying discontinuity: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Pattern accumulation in a learning society (Pattern learning: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Pattern language experiments (Opportunity: Metaphor Project)
• [1995] Patterning disagreement (Comments: Integrative Knowledge Project)
• [1995] Patterning the problematique (Patterning problems: World Problems Project)
• [1995] Patterning the resolutique (Patterning strategies: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Patterning the resolutique (Patterning strategies: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Patterns of concepts (Significance: Metaphor Project)
• [1995] Poetic configuration of policy guidelines (Poetry and Policy: Transformative Approaches Project)
• [1995] Probabilistic vision of the world (Pattern learning: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Providing a strategic framework (Governance: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] "Re-reading" patterns of concepts (Opportunity: Metaphor Project)
• [1995] Representation of Interlocking Elements for a Sustainable Global System (Configuring strategic dilemmas in intersectoral dialogue)
• [1995] Representation of Issue Arenas on Icosidodecahedral Net (Alternate A) (Configuring strategic dilemmas in intersectoral dialogue)
• [1995] Representation of Issue Arenas on Icosidodecahedral Net (Alternate B) (Configuring strategic dilemmas in intersectoral dialogue)
• [1995] Spherical Representation of Icosidodecahedral Net of Strategies (Configuring strategic dilemmas in intersectoral dialogue)
• [1995] Structuring around unknowing in a learning society (Pattern learning: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Sustainable Dialogue as a Necessary Template for Sustainable Global Community (93k, 1w)
• [1995] Toward an enantiomorphic policy (Patterns of alternation: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Transformative policy cycles (Configuring: Transformative Approaches Project)
• [1995] Transformative policy cycles (Patterning: Transformative Approaches Project)
• [1995] Using disagreements for superordinate frame configuration (Configuring: Transformative Approaches Project)
• [1995] Wholeness and the implicate order (Pattern learning: Global Strategies Project)
• [1994] Design Considerations for Spatial Metaphors: reflections on the evolution of viewpoint transportation systems (12k)
• [1994] In Quest of Radical Coherence: a group design initiative (10k, 1w)
• [1994] Spherical Configuration of Categories to Reflect Systemic Patterns of Environmental Checks and Balances (43k, 7w)
• [1994] Transdisciplinarity-3 as the Emergence of Patterned Experience (Part I) (41k, 2w)
• [1994] Transdisciplinarity-3 as the Emergence of Patterned Experience (Part II) (35k, 25w)
• [1993] Pattern of Meeting Participant Roles: Shadowy 'roundtable' hidden within every meeting (4k, 3w)
• [1993] Structure of Declarations: Challenging Traditional Patterns (6k, 1w)
• [1993] Using Disagreements for Superordinate Frame Configuration (12k, 6w)
• [1992] Catalyzation of New Patterns of Collaboration (39k, 19w)
• [1992] Configuring Globally and Contending Locally: shaping the global network of local bargains (9k, 44w)
• [1992] Configuring Strategic Dilemmas in Intersectoral Dialogue (2k, 5w)
• [1992] General Checklist of Documents Describing the Rationale and Process (Configuring strategic dilemmas in intersectoral dialogue)
• [1992] Structure of Declarations: challenging traditional patterns (6k, 2w)
• [1992] Sustaining Higher Orders of Policy Consensus through Metaphor: towards a new language of governance (9k, 7w)
• [1991] Comprehensible Policy-making: Guiding Metaphors and Configuring Choices (Part II) (55k, 14w)
• [1991] Decision-making: Guiding Metaphors and Configuring Choices (Part I) (62k)
• [1991] Higher Orders of Inter-sectoral Consensus (74k, 1w)
• [1990] Towards Another Order of Conferencing: insights from the I Ching (2k, 3w)
• [1990] Towards Another Order of Sustainable Policy Cycles: insights from the I Ching (2k, 3w)
• [1989] Ordering the Undefinable: Identifying meaningful patterns of world problems (61k, 14w)
• [1988] Energy Patterns in Conferences: a context for higher levels of integration (134k, 14w)
• [1988] Reordering Networks of Incommensurable Concepts in Phased Cycles (79k, 27w)
• [1986] Review of Frameworks for the Representation of alternative Conceptual Orderings as Determined by Linguistic and Cultural Contexts (143k, 9w)
• [1984] Examples of Integrated, Multi-set Concept Schemes (12k, 25w)
• [1984] Examples of Integrated, Multi-set Concept Schemes: Art of colour (14k, 2w)
• [1984] Examples of Integrated, Multi-set Concept Schemes: Catastrophe Theory (19k, 2w)
• [1984] Examples of Integrated, Multi-set Concept Schemes: Chinese art of war (9k, 2w)
• [1984] Examples of Integrated, Multi-set Concept Schemes: Chinese Communist terminology (3k, 2w)
• [1984] Examples of Integrated, Multi-set Concept Schemes: Chladni patterns (7k, 2w)
• [1984] Examples of Integrated, Multi-set Concept Schemes: Genetic code and amino acids (4k, 2w)
• [1984] Examples of Integrated, Multi-set Concept Schemes: Geometry of Meaning (21k, 3w)
• [1984] Examples of Integrated, Multi-set Concept Schemes: GPID (9k, 3w)
• [1984] Examples of Integrated, Multi-set Concept Schemes: I Ching (14k, 3w)
• [1984] Examples of Integrated, Multi-set Concept Schemes: Islamic cosmological doctrine (9k, 2w)
• [1984] Examples of Integrated, Multi-set Concept Schemes: Language and transformational-generative grammars (15k, 2w)
• [1984] Examples of Integrated, Multi-set Concept Schemes: Movement and dance notation (36k, 2w)
• [1984] Examples of Integrated, Multi-set Concept Schemes: Periodic classification of chemical elements (2k, 2w)
• [1984] Examples of Integrated, Multi-set Concept Schemes: Periodic coaction coordinate system (4k, 2w)
• [1984] Examples of Integrated, Multi-set Concept Schemes: Polygons and polyhedra (12k, 2w)
• [1984] Examples of Integrated, Multi-set Concept Schemes: Synergetics (80k, 5w)
• [1984] Examples of Integrated, Multi-set Concept Schemes: Systematics (14k, 2w)
• [1984] Examples of Integrated, Multi-set Concept Schemes: Thermodynamics (13k, 2w)
• [1984] Examples of Integrated, Multi-set Concept Schemes: Tibetan Buddhism (28k, 2w)
• [1984] Examples of Integrated, Multi-set Concept Schemes: Tonal patterns of Rg Veda poetry (51k, 2w)
• [1984] Examples of Integrated, Multi-set Concept Schemes: Topological features of polyhedra (2k, 2w)
• [1984] Pattern Language for Participants: Towards Transformative Conferencing and Dialogue (Part U) (10k, 2w)
• [1984] Patterns of Conceptual Integration (10k, 24w)
• [1984] Self-constraining Configurations (Communication Patterns): Towards Transformative Conferencing and Dialogue (Part L) (4k, 1w)
• [1984] Self-constraining Configurations (Energy Dissipation): Towards Transformative Conferencing and Dialogue (Part K) (5k, 1w)
• [1984] Yearbook of World Problems and Human Potential: re-design Human Potential portion (41k, 2w)
• [1984] 5-fold Pattern Language (23k, 139w)
• [1983] Further Constraints on Conceptual Container Design (35k, 79w)
• [1983] Networking Alternation: an alternation network of 384 pathways of organizational transformation (82k, 72w)
• [1983] Patterning Transformative Change: dialogue, vision, conference, policy, network, community and lifestyle (21k, 5w)
• [1982] Experimental matrix used to order functional areas (68k, 1w)
• [1981] Anti-Developmental Biases in Thesaurus Design (50k, 3w)
• [1981] Beyond Edge-bound Comprehension and Modal Impotence: combining q-holes through a pattern language (46k, 3w)
• [1981] In Search of Transformational Pathways: bibliography of studies conductedfrom 1962 to 1981 (72k, 124w)
• [1981] Togetherbound: a gathering of the mad (37k, 1w)
• [1980] Liberation of Integration through pattern, oscillation, harmony and embodiment (95k, 11w)
• [1980] Needs Communication: viable need patterns and their identification (98k, 5w)
• [1980] Patterns of N-foldness: Comparison of integrated multi-set concept schemes as forms of presentation (60k, 79w)
• [1980] Vector Equilibrium and its Transformation Pathways (72k)
• [1979] Groupware Configurations of Challenge and Harmony: an alternative approach to alternative organization (66k, 17w)
• [1979] Implementing Principles by Balancing Configurations of Functions: a tensegrity organization approach (37k, 4w)
• [1979] The Territory Construed as the Map: in search of radical design innovations in the representation of human activities and their relationships (95k, 9w)
• [1978] Organization and Lifestyle Design: Characteristics of a nonverbal structural language (56k, 12w)
• [1978] Transcending Duality through Tensional Integrity: A lesson in organisation from building design (45k, 1w)
• [1977] Lifestyle Interdependence, Context and Design (46k, 7w)
• [1975] Networks as a Conceptual Aid to Ordering Perception of Complex Social Structures (14k, 2w)
• [1974] Categorical Straightjackets: PO -- A suggestion for a de-patterning device for international organization descriptions (14k, 1w)
• [1971] Design of an information system to facilitate the production of concept thesauri by different schools of thought (15k, 1w)
• [1971] Inter-organizational data and data bank design (72k, 3w)
• [1969] Tentative Basis for the Design and Build-up of a Network File (12k)

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