footnotes
¹ Sterling, Bruce; (2008) "Scenius, or Communal Genius"; WIRED Magazine.
² Choudhury, Shakil. (2021) "Deep Diversity: A Compassionate, Scientific Approach to Achieving Racial Justice"; Vancouver, BC: Greystone Books Ltd.
³ Source: Biomimicry Institute
⁴ Patton, Michael Q. (2019) "Blue Marble Evaluation: Premises and Principles"; New York: Guilford Publications
⁵ “This is an absolute necessity for anybody today. You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.” Campbell, Joseph (1988) in “Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers” on PBS.
⁶ Inspired by quantum physics’ observation of an abrupt transition of a system in atomic electron transition, Thomas Kuhn formulated the concept of epistemological paradigm shift. Scientists today are observing anomalies, such as climate change, increasing inequalities or volatile financial markets, which can no longer be brushed away as acceptable levels of error of the current “system”, or simply be ignored and not be dealt with. In this context of crisis, gradual or incremental change seems less and less likely to be able to safeguard human life over the mid to long term. It is high time to prepare the grounds for a human quantum leap, testing ideas, perhaps ones previously discarded, to enable radically new worldviews.
⁷ Waddock, Sandra; Waddell, Steve; Goldstein, Bruce; Linner, Bjorn-Ola; Schäpke, Niko; Voge, Coleen. (2020) "Transformation: How to spur radical change." in Our Future on Earth Report, edited by Alistair Scrutton: Future
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¹⁰ Hari Johann (2022) “Stolen Focus”. London: Penguin Random House
¹¹ Becker, Joshua; Porter, Ethan; Centola, Damon (2019) "The wisdom of partisan crowds". PNAS, Vol. 116, No. 22. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1817195116
¹² Rainie, Lee and Janna Anderson, (2017) “Code-Dependent: Pros and Cons of the Algorithm Age.”; Theme 3: Humanity and human judgment are lost when data and predictive modeling become paramount; Pew Research Center, Available at: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2017/02/08/theme-3-humanity-and-human-judgment-are-lost-when-data-and-predictive-modeling-become-paramount/
¹³ Bratsberg, Bernt; Rogeberg, Ole (2018) "Flynn effect and its reversal are both environmentally caused", PNAS: Vol. 11, No. 26. https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1718793115
¹⁴ Farine, Damien R. etal. (2014) "Collective decision making and social interaction rules in mixed-species flocks of songbirds"; Elsevier; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347214002747
¹⁵ We are living in times of the “complex domain” or "unknown unknowns". Cause and effect can only be deduced in retrospect, and there are no right answers. "Instructive patterns ... can emerge," write Snowden and Boone, "if the leader conducts experiments that are safe to fail" in a "probe–sense–respond"-process. Snowden, David, J.; Boone, Mary, E. (2007) "A Leader’s Framework for Decision Making"; Nov 2007 Issue, Harvard Business Review; https://hbr.org/2007/11/a-leaders-framework-for-decision-making
¹⁶ Kolb, David A. (1984) "Experiential Learning: Experience As The Source Of Learning And Development"; Hoboken NJ: Prentice-Hall
¹⁷ Our experiences are our “tools”. Musgrave, S., Morgan, D., Lonsdorf, E. et al. (2016) "Tool transfers are a form of teaching among chimpanzees." Scientific Reports https://www.nature.com/articles/srep34783
¹⁸ Rosa, Hartmund. (2019) "Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World"; Cambridge: Polity Press
¹⁹ Patton, Michael Q. (2010) "Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use"; New York: The Guilford Press
²⁰ Source: https://www.bouncebeyond.global/core-ideas
²¹ We are deeply inspired by and indebted for lots of inspiration to The Biomimicry Institute with whom we seek to forge an alliance early on into the co-creation of the UFI.
²² “Transformation catalysts act catalytically by aggregating, cohering and amplifying actions of transformation initiatives and change-makers working towards fundamental socioecological systems. As catalysts, TCs connect other actors synergistically together towards system innovation, alignment of efforts, and transformation. TCs make three distinctive contributions to address the purposeful transformation challenges of time span, speed, scale, and complexity. They (1) research and analyze to ‘see’, map and otherwise understand their transformations systems’ participants and dynamics; (2) they connect the transformations systems’ actors so they, too, see and identify highly strategic actions from a collective perspective, and (3) support implementation of the actions. Although their development faces significant challenges, the promise of TCs as a new organizational form is the ability to much more rapidly and effectively address socio-ecological crises”
Waddock, Sandra; Waddell, Steve; (2021) "Transformation Catalysts: Weaving Transformational Change for a Flourishing World for All"; in Cadmus, Vol. 4, Issue 4
²³ Hartog, François; (2016) "Regimes of Historicity - Presentism and Experiences of Time"; New York City: Columbia University Press
²⁴ Langenbach, Benedikt P.; Savic, Branislav; Baumgartner, Thomas; Wyss, Annika M.; Knoch, Daria.(2022) “Mentalizing with the future: Electrical stimulation of the right TPJ increases sustainable decision-making”. Cortex; 146: 227 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.11.006
²⁵ Marder, Michael. (2013) "Plant-Thinking - A Philosophy of Vegetal Life"; New York City: Columbia University Press
²⁶ Nayak, Sandeep M.; Griffiths, Roland R. (2022) “A Single Belief-Changing Psychedelic Experience Is Associated With Increased Attribution of Consciousness to Living and Non-living Entities”. Frontiers in Psychology, 2022; 13 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.852248
²⁷ Ellis et al. (2020) "People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years"; PNAS 2021 Vol. 118 No. 17; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2023483118
²⁸ Goodchild, Melanie; Senge, Peter; Scharmer, C. Otto; (2021) "Relational Systems Thinking; in Journal of Awareness Based Systems Change; Volume 1, Issue 1, pp 75-103; https://doi.org/10.47061/jabsc.v1i1.577
²⁹ Clifton, Jim (2021) "The Next Global Pandemic: Mental Health"; Gallup World Poll; https://www.gallup.com/workplace/357710/next-global-pandemic-mental-health.aspx
³⁰ Flothmann, Stefan; (2019) "The Inconvenient Mind - Psychological Insights"; Mindworks Greenpeace
³¹ Perry, Jonathan; (2021) "Trust in public institutions: Trends and implications for economic security"; UN DESA; https://www.un.org/development/desa/dspd/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2021/08/PB_108.pdf
³² Carothers, Thomas; O'Donohue, Andrew; (2019) "Democracies Divided - The Global Challenge of Political Polarization"; Brookings Institution Press
³³ Guilbeault D, Centola D (2020) “Networked collective intelligence improves dissemination of scientific information regarding smoking risks.” PLOS ONE 15(2): e0227813. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227813
³⁴ As the scales of the next-generation networks are expected to be extremely large, centralized control of communication becomes impractical. With the distributed intelligence, Physarum (Neither animal nor plant, the slime mold Physarum polycephalum is a large-scale single-celled organism that lives in damp forests.) may inform the design of next generation, adaptive, robust spatial infrastructure networks with decentralized control systems. Source: Sun, Yasun (2019) "Physarum-inspired Network Optimization: A Review"; arXiv; Hoff, Mary (2020) ; “Information Gained, Stored, and Transferred Without Brains - Physarum polycephalum slime mold”; The Biomimicry Instiute;
³⁵ powell, john a.; Menendian, Stephen; (2020) "The Problem of Othering - Towards Inclusiveness and Belonging"; in Othering & Belonging, Issue 1, p. 14-40; University of California, Berkeley: Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society;
³⁶ Martin, Roger L. (2019) "The High Price of Efficiency"; Harvard Business Review; https://hbr.org/2019/01/the-high-price-of-efficiency
³⁷ Laloux, Frederic; (2014) "Reinventing Organizations"; Brussels, Belgium ; Millis, Massachusetts : Nelson Parker
³⁸ Piketty, Thomas (2014) "Le Capital au XXIe siècle"; Paris: Seuil
³⁹ Humans basic form of organization is tribal/collective. Junger, Sebastian; (2016) "Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging"; New York: Grand Central Publishing
⁴⁰ Law, Alan et al. (2017) "Using ecosystem engineers as tools in habitat restoration and rewilding: beaver and wetlands"; Elsevier; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969717315929?via%3Dihub
⁴¹ In anthropology, liminality (from the Latin word līmen, meaning “a threshold”) is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of rituals, political and cultural change, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual/change status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the ritual/change is complete. During liminal periods of all kinds, social hierarchies may be reversed or temporarily dissolved, continuity of tradition may become uncertain, and future outcomes once taken for granted may be thrown into doubt. The dissolution of order during liminality creates a fluid, malleable situation that enables new institutions and customs to become established. Source: Wikipedia
⁴² Folke et al. (2021) “Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere”; Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01544-8
⁴³ “The driving cultural force of that form of life we call ‘modern’ is the desire to make the world controllable. Yet it is only in encountering the uncontrollable that we really experience the world – only then do we feel touched, moved and alive. A world that is fully known, in which everything has been planned and mastered, would be a dead world.” Rosa, Hartmund. (2020) "The Uncontrollability of the World"; Cambridge: Polity Press
⁴⁴ Guo, Eileen (2021) "Universal basic income is here"; Boston: MIT Technology Review. https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/05/07/1024674/ubi-guaranteed-income-pandemic/
⁴⁵ Bauwens, Michel and Pazaitis, Alex; (2019) “P2P Accounting for Planetary Survival” https://commonstransition.org/p2p-accounting-for-planetary-survival/
⁴⁶ National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults: Opportunities for the Health Care System. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25663external icon
⁴⁷ Mazzacuto, Mariana; (2019) "The value of everything : making and taking in the global economy"; UK : Penguin Books
⁴⁸ Villaneuva, Edgar; (2018) "Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance"; Oakland: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
⁴⁹ Smith, David H.; (2016) "The Darker Side of Philanthropy" in The Routledge Companion to Philanthropy. 1st Edition, Chapter: 17. London: Routledge
⁵⁰ Or diffract, just like morpho butterflies do, turning transparent sunlight into iridescent colors. Vukusic, P. et al. (1999) "Quantified interference and diffraction in single Morpho butterfly scales"; The Royal Society Publishing; Volume 266, Issue 1427; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.1999.0794
⁵¹ Twist, Lynne; Barker, Teresa; (2003) "The Soul of Money", New York City: Norton.
(!) Cronin, Helena (1991) “The ant and the peacock - Altruism and Sexual Selection From Darwin to Today”; New York: Cambridge University Press.
1UP Bonus: Le Guinn, Ursula K. (1986) "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction" https://tinyurl.com/carrierbagtheory