Collections of Documents in PDF Format

Collections of Documents in PDF Format

Page not currently maintained, but serves as one indication of topic clustering
Clarification of the variety of formats and access possibilities for all documents is provided separately,
including indication of thematic organizations by topic/subject

Items are listed alphabetically within year (and within month for the most recent).
An indication of the size of accessible documents is given in kilobytes (eg 42k) -- meaning 42,000 characters.
Where a PHP version of the document exists, a direct link may be appended to the title listed below
Clarification of the variety of formats and access possibilities is provided separately

Provides access to those documents:

which have not (yet) been adequately digitised (and/or corrected), permitting conversion to HTML/PHP
which have already been rendered into searchable form in PDF, whether or not versions exist in HTML/PHP
where the PDF image of the original may anyway be easier to read (images, tables, typescript) or have historical value
which already exist in PHP format, but for which a PDF version of that format may be more convenient for printing
which already exist in PPT format, but for which a PDF version of that format may be more convenient for printing

The PDF documents listed here are collections of documents. The details of their contents (and the individual PDF documents of which they are composed (as well as any PHP equivalents) are provided here (with an additional separate description of the complementary 5-fold sets of 1984). Individual documents, especially those not forming part of collections, are best accessed through the separate page Single Documents in PDF Format.

An indication of the size of accessible PDF documents is given in megabytes (eg 5mb). Where links are also provided to a compact searchable format ("PHP version"), consider accessing these first (such non-PDF documents may also be accessible through the themes pull-down menu above and in the following chronological checklists).

Check the Non-PDF Documents for years: 2020+ | 2010-19 | 2000-09 | 1990-99 | 1980-89 | 1970-79 | 1962-69 | ALL years

[2005] Union of Intelligible Associations (Presentation at a conference of the World Academy of Art and Science: The Future of Knowledge: evolutionary challenges for the 21st century, Zagreb, 2005):
[2005] Exploring Intelligible Associations (Presentation on ontological and process issues at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, 2005) [PHP summary]:
[1996] Cultivating the Songlines of the Noosphere: Contributions to the first Members Meeting of the Club of Budapest (From presentations by representatives to embodying presence in transformation; Dialogue; Envisioning conferencing; Poetry-making and Policy-making) [6.0mb; PHP version]
[1993] Learnings for the Future of Inter-Faith Dialogue:
- Questions arising from the Parliament of the World's Religions (Chicago, 1993) [0.3mb; PHP version]
- Insights evoked by intractable international differences [0.2mb; PHP version]
[1993] Poetry-making and Policy-making: arranging a Marriage between Beauty and the Beast (Presentation for the Schule fur Dichtung in Wien / School of Poetry in Vienna) [complete, 6.0mb]
- Summary [0.1mb; PHP version]
- Part 1: Possibilities of a Marriage between Beauty and the Beast [1.5mb; PHP version]
- Part 2: Mutual Entrainment [0.8mb; PHP version]
- Part 3: Marriage Consummation and Progeny [1.4mb; PHP version]
- Part 4: Clues towards Transformative Congressing [1.7mb; PHP version]
- Part 5: Bibliographical References and Notes [0.4mb; PHP version]
[1992] A Conference towards Spiritual Concord as a Metaphor of Spiritual Concord (Notes and reflections) [9.0mb; PHP version]
1. [1992] Configuring Globally and Contending Locally: shaping the global network of local bargains by decoding and mapping Earth Summit inter-sectoral issues (Prepared for the International Facilitating Committee for the Independent Sectors in the UNCED process: Inter-sectoral Dialogue, Rio de Janeiro, June 1992) [3.9mb; PHP version]
2. [1988] Energy Patterns in Conferences: weaving patterns of information as a context for higher levels of integration (An exploration of the different patterns of information which may emerge at any time during the course of a meeting -- and the special problems and opportunities to which they may give rise) [2.1mb; PHP version]
3. [1987] Atlas of International Relationship Networks (Review of the problems of mapping networks of organization/problem relationships in order to produce an "Atlas" as a complement to the Yearbook of International Organizations and to the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential), 1987 [2.2mb; PHP version]
4. [1984] Forms of Presentation and the Future of Comprehension (Collection of papers mainly presented to the Forms of Presentation sub-project of the Goals, Processes and Indicators of Development (GPID) project of the United Nations University) [0.3mb; PHP version]
  - Part 1: Constraints on Presenting Action-oriented Information (Collection of papers) [1.3mb; PHP version]
  - Part 2: Language as a Constraint (Collection of papers) [1.3mb; PHP version]
  - Part 3: Societal Learning and the International Community (Collection of papers) [3.6mb; PHP version]
  - Part 4: Information Mapping (Collection of papers) [3.0mb; PHP version]
  - Part 5: Complexity and Comprehension (Collection of papers) [3.6mb; PHP version]
  - Annexes: [6.1mb together in searchable PDF version; PHP summary]
    1. Report of a meeting on Forms of Presentation [0.4mb; PHP version]
    2. Tentative overview of forms of communication [0.05mb; no PHP version]
    3. Anti-developmental biases in thesaurus design [1.2mb; PHP version]
    4. Organization and lifestyle design; characteristics of a non verbal structural language [1.1mb; PHP version]
    5. Computer-aided visualization of psycho-social structures; peace as an evolving balance of conceptual and organizational relationships [1.7mb; PHP version]
    6. Needs communication; viable need patterns and their identification [1.7mb; PHP version]
5. [1984] Transformative Conferencing: Problems and possibilities on the new frontier of high-risk gatherings concerning social development (Collection of papers reprinted from the journal Transnational Associations in the light of experience in the Goals, Processes and Indicators of Development (GPID) project of the United Nations University) [0.3mb; PHP version]
  - Part 1: Meeting Failure: Analysis and Case Studies (Collection of papers) [2.5mb]
  - Part 2: Visions for the Future (Collection of papers) [2.6mb]
  - Part 3: Messaging and Group Formation (Collection of papers: Participant interaction messaging; Facilitating group formation) [1.4mb]
  - Part 4: Computer-aided Conferences (Collection of papers: Enhancing communication at a large conference-festival; Facilitating the networking processes of a transnational university; Facilitating the emergence of configurative understanding in "Councils of the Wise") [3.4mb]
  - Part 5: Metaconferencing Techniques (Collection of papers: Discovering people/viewpoint networks in conferences; Interrelating viewpoints in complex meetings; Networking alternation) [3.0mb]
  - Annex: Towards Another Order of Conferencing (Insights into conferencing from the Chinese Book of Changes) [1.5mb]
6. [1984] Policy Alternation for Development (Papers arising from work in connection with the Goals, Processes and Indicators of Development (GPID) project of the United Nations University) [0.5mb; PHP version]
  - Development through Alternation (Augmented version of a paper originally prepared for Integrative Working Group B of the GPID project) [14mb; PHP version]
  - Metaphors of Alternation: an exploration of their significance for development policy-making [2.2mb; PHP version]
  - Networking Alternation [1.6mb; PHP version]
  - Networking Conditions and Transformations in the Light of the Chinese Book of Changes [1.7mb; PHP version]
7. [1984] Patterns of Conceptual Integration (Collection of papers) [0.4mb; PHP version]:
  - Representation, Comprehension and Communication of Sets: the role of number [3.6mb; PHP version]
  - Patterns of N-foldness: comparison of integrated multi-set concept schemes of presentation [0.7mb; PHP version]
  - Beyond Method: engaging opposition in psycho-social organization [2.3mb; PHP version]
  - Liberation of Integration: pattern, oscillation, harmony and embodiment [2.3mb; PHP version]
  - Concept Factors in Concept Scheme Integration: GPID as a case study [0.5mb; PHP version]
  - Integrative Dimensions of Concept Sets: transformations with minimal distortion between implictness and explictness of set representation according to constraints on communicability [0.5mb; PHP version]
  - Beyond Edge-bound Comprehension and Modal Impotence: combining q-holes through a pattern language [1.1mb; PHP version]
  - Examples of Integrated, Multi-set Concept Schemes (Annexes 1-20) [7.2mb; PHP version]
  - Experimentally-generated, Integrated, Multi-set Concept Scheme (Annex 21) [1.6mb; PHP version]
8. [1984] From Networking to Tensegrity Organization (Collection of papers) [0.6mb; PHP version]:
  - Part 1: Recognition of the Problem (Papers covering a variety of approaches to the identification of the difficulties in inter-organizational action, together with experiments in formulating sets of principles to clarify the issues) [3.7mb; PHP version]
  - Part 2: Networking as an Alternative (Collection of papers envisioning the potential social significance of networks in all their variety, notably those features which have so successfully caught peoples imagination; need for a suitable vocabulary to facilitate network-related activity) [4.3mb; PHP version]
  - Part 3: Networks as a Complement to Systems (Collection of papers discussing the distinctions and complementarities between networks and systems -- and the implications for the operation of international organizations) [3.1mb; PHP version]
  - Part 4: Enhancing Network Action (Collection of papers on facilitating networking processes, whether amongst organizations in general, within a network of "research and service communities" or in a transnational university. The nature of a network organizational strategy is a particular concern) [3.5mb; PHP version]
  - Part 5: Networking Weaknesses and Project Failure (Collection of papers considering the consequences of rejecting the "rigidity" of hierarchicial systems and the nature of network "flabbiness") [2.5mb; PHP version]
  - Part 6: Tensing Networks (Papers exploring the possibility of "tensing" networks in response to "flabbiness", notably through the use of tensegrity principles) [1.5mb; PHP version]
  - Part 7: Beyond Networking to Tensegrity Alternation (Collection of papers on the relevance of tensional integrity ("tensegrity") as a means of striking a balance between the strengths and weaknesses of hierarchical and networking approaches to social organization) [4.7mb; PHP version]
  - Annexes (Papers by David Horton Smith, Peter and Trudy Johnson-Lenz, Yona Friedman and Anthony Judge) [2.5mb; PHP version]
9. [1982?] University of Earth: Meta-organization for post-crisis action [4.4mb; PHP version]
10. [1981] Inter-Contact [no PHP version]
  - [1981] INTERCONTACT: an on-line information system on international organizations and conferences [original PDF, 0.8mb; printed PDF; 0.2 mb]
  - [1980] Summary Description of the Inter-Contact Computer System [1.0mb]
  - [1969] Inter-Contact: an information centre and a technique (Description of a planned computer-based centre on international and national organizations and related entities to be established by the Union of International Associations) [0.6mb]
11. [1980] Metaconferencing [2.3mb]
  - Conferences: a call to experiment, by Stafford Beer [no PHP version]
  - Metaconferencing: discovering people/viewpoint networks in conferences (Based on documents, tables and maps prepared by Stafford Beer, Syd Howell, Alan Mossman, and Gordon Pask) [0.6mb; PHP version]
  - Metaconferencing possibilities [0.3mb; PHP version]
12. [1979] Meeting Thoughts, Visions and Speculations: a destructured congress [ 0.4mb; PHP version]
  - Facilitative guidelines [PHP version]
  - If the congress appears too over-structured [PHP version]
  - If the congress appears too unstructured [PHP version]
  - Tao in large groups [PHP version]
  - A congress as a meditation [PHP version]
  - Mapping who's where? [PHP version]
  - Rediscovering the wheel I: Types of person and congress processes [PHP version]
  - Redscovering the wheel II: Congress communication - why, what and for whom? [PHP version]
13. [1978] Transcending Duality through Tensional Integrity [Collection]
  - A lesson in organization from building design [1.7mb; PHP version]
  - From systems-versus-networks to tensegrity organization [0.7mb; PHP version]
14. [1977] Complexity: its constraints on social innovation (Introductory reports for a session at the Journées d'études of the International Foundation for Social Innovation) [3.5mb; PHP version]
  - Introduction [0.3mb; PHP version]
  - Presentation of Information and its Educational Role in Response to Complexity [0.2mb; PHP version]
  - Organizational Forms in Response to Complexity [0.3mb; PHP version]
  - Organization of Meetings for Discussion of Complex Issues [0.3mb; PHP version]
  - Institutional "Games" and Strategies as a Response to Complexity [0.2mb; PHP version]
15. [1976] The Network Alternative (A proposal for encounters between practitioners, social scientistis and specialists, incorporating the summary report of a preliminary meeting to assess the feasibility of such a project, Montreal, 1976) [published 1.7mb; original version; no PHP version]
  - Indicative listing of types of networks
  - Organisational systems vs Network organisation [1.5mb; no PHP version]
  - System Network Complementarity [0.5mb; PHP commentary]
16. [1975] Technical facilitation of meeting dynamics and participant interaction
  - Part 1: Meeting Failure and Participant Frustration [0.2mb; PHP version]
  - Part 2: Meeting Types: Old and New [0.3mb; PHP version]
  - Part 3: Technical facilitation of meeting dynamics and participant interaction [0.2mb; PHP version]
17. [1973] Toward a Concept Inventory: suggestions for a computerized procedure (Prepared for the Committee on Conceptual and Terminological Analysis (COCTA) of the International Political Science Association, 9th Congress, Montreal 1973) [1.5mb; 4.7mb; PHP version]
18. [1972] Relationship between Elements of Knowledge: Use of computer systems to facilitate construction, comprehension and comparison of the concept thesauri of different schools of thought [8mb; PHP overview with indication of access to to the following PDFs of individual appendices]:
  - A: Project organization (1.8mb)
  - B. Computer techniques (1.5mb)
  - C. Methods of representation and analysis (1.0mb)
  - D. Earlier initiatives and sources of concepts (2.0mb)
  - E. Language and knowledge considerations (1.0mb)
  - F. Future possibilities (0.5mb)
19. [1971] The Next Step in Inter-Organizational Relationships (Use of information, rather than organization, as the foundation for the inter-organizational activity of the future) [6.0mb; PHP version]
  - Specific proposals [PHP version]
  - A. Summary of the Crises in Interorganizational Relationships at the International level [0.8mb;PHP version]
    - Relationships between INGO and IGO, particularly the UN system [PHP version]
    - Working relationships between international NGOs [PHP version]
    - Relationships between international NGOs for the purposes of sharing facilities and equipment [PHP version]
  - B. Yesterday's problems or tomorrow's problems [PHP version]
  - C. An NGO Collective Long-term Objective [0.2mb; PHP version; PHP version]
  - D. Checklist of possible points for discussion [PHP version]
  - E. Interdependence and isolationism [PHP version]
  - F. Summary of functions performed by NGO Conferences [0.1mb; PHP version]
  - G. The significance of the world network of organizations [PHP version]
  - H. IGO-INGO and INGO-INGO Relations: a possible approach [PHP version]
  - I. Opportunities and dangers in the development of NGO information systems [PHP version]
  - Annex I: The Role of the Potential Association (Wanted: new types of social entity) [0.2mb; PHP version]
  - Annex II: Matrix Organization and Organizational Networks (Wanted: new types of social entity) [1.4mb; PHP version]
  - Annex III Sketch of a world action-potential information system [PHP version]
20. [1971] Discrimination and Fragmentation in the 1970s: an organized response to global crisis [PHP version]
  - Part 1: The UN System's Ivory Tower Strategy and the death knell of INGO Consultative Status [PHP version]
  - Part 2: From Apartheid to Schizophrenia: ecological ignorance and the logic of depersonalized "separate development" [PHP version]
  - Part 3: A World in Distress: a model of fragmented "social development" [PHP version]
21. [1970] Planning for the 1960s in the 1970s (extracts from International Organizations and the Generation of the Will to Change, see below)
  - Part I: A/B (0.8mb):
    - A: UN Development System Capacity Study (Jackson Report) [PHP version]
    - B: IBRD Commission on International Development (Pearson Report) [PHP version]
  - Part II: C Report on the Mobilization of Public Opinion (CESI Report) [0.3mb; no PHP version]
  - Part III: E Discussion [0.3mb; PHP version]
  - Part IV: Implications of the SATCOM report [0.7mb; no PHP version]
22. [1970] International Organizations and the Generation of the Will to Change: the information systems required (A study of the implications of the following reports in terms of the total network of organizations making up the world system and the complex network of interaction problem areas) [4.7mb; PHP version; extracts published under the title Planning for the 1960s in the 1970s, see above]:
  - UN Development System Capacity Study (Jackson Report) [PHP version]
  - IBRD Commission on International Development (Pearson Report) [PHP version]
  - Report on the Mobilization of Public Opinion (CESI Report) [PHP version]
  - SATCOM Report [no PHP version]
23. [1968] Preliminary Investigation of the Possibility of Using Computer Data Processing Methods [PHP summary]
  - Main report (3.5mb); Main report exhibits (4.5mb); Appendix report (7.4mb); Appendix report exhibits (8.8mb)
24. [1968] Functional Synthesis of Viewpoints: a conceptual model based on purpose. [7mb; PHP version]

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