A CONCEPT FOR A EUROPEAN ARENA OF INTEGRATIVE DIALOGUE

    Introducing a critical stance. While we see truly honorable organizations like World Economic Forum and the Nobel Foundation with due respect to their excellent contribution to global awareness (to the national trademark of Sweden), and to shared goals. Our vision and intention, however, is essentially different: while we prefer to revise Foreign Policy into our own list of the most influential leaders, another relevant dimension is represented by The Edge Foundation Inc, a global "Third culture" think-tank for intellectual inquiry. With a determined focus on the processes of competence integration, the drivers of value conversion are the roots of creative innovation. Our model is based on researching the acts and intentions inherent to a cognitive framework of metainterpretation, while our comprehensive fourpart model for value processes derives from observations of history, ideas, reality and visions of the future. We imagine society unfolding through history on the foundation of fundamental 'cultural root values'. These values are both epistemically inherent to the knowledge of the subject matter and essential in the search of building blocks for the application of useful competence to public policy, private philanthropy, and commercial business. These basic ideas emerged from often informal dialogues with outstanding leaders in a number of different fields and disciplines during decades, from our primitive outlines, including Collegium Europaeum (from our early homepage), to a more elaborated and broadly anchored conceptuality in response to severely challenging conditions in our present world. While far from surrendering to the illusion that arts and sciences separately can solve imminent societal problems, we feel confident that urgent solutions require a solid ground of human values at the very intersection between the truth of external reality (as corroborated by reliable scientific methodology) and the insight of a reflecting self (as provided by phenomena in the arts and the aesthetic realms of interhuman experience). Early cross-disciplinary talks that inspired us were held on invitation by Hannes Alfvén, UC La Jolla (1983), and Philip Sandblom, Lausanne (1989). The concept profited from dialogues with Nobel Laureates, inter alia Werner Arber, Richard Ernst and Brian D Josephson, who promoted inter- and transdisciplinarity at the Nobel Foundation Centenary celebration, Grand Hotel in Stockholm, in 2001 (as documented in Noble Afterthoughts: *). Another outline is available at Collegium Europaeum for Transdisciplinary Dialogue - a proposal to European Commission. We matinain our attentive observation of the ideas provided by Open Society Institute (OSI).

LEADERSHIP GOVERNANCE AND STRATEGIC COGNITION 

* * * RELATED THEMES: (1) The future challenge of representative democracy and parliamentism - read ESF Exploratory Workshop: *  (2) Knowledge integration in value creation and value conversion processes - is there a place for it in the EU NEST report on What it means to be human? * - and a public strategy? The phenomenology of knowledge integration in decision-making. Cognitive interpretation by actors on the financial market and in corporate (FPO and NPO) financial governance * * *

Aesthetic Experience and Organizational Change (preview *) (paper *)

ARTS AND SCIENCES INTERPLAY IN SOCIETY

The Musical Mind - Musical Cognition a mode of  Social Epistemology both integrative and analytical and a model for the future.  

* * * Interscience, Interarts and the Symbolisation of Social Interaction in the 'symphonic work' of composition, improvisation and interpretation * * *  

AreMus - Music (more to come): Virtual Opera becoming real: The Arreskow Saga (*) on the roots of Nordic Christianity and European identity, symbolized by the coronation of king Canute in Oxford anno 1016 and his life with Emma. At their visit to Rome a hospitium for Nordic pilgrims was founded. Canute was recognized as king in Sigtuna in 1026. A personalized drama on emerging identity of values in Northern Europe.

We enjoy a collaboration on Creativity in Art and Science with Dr. Sheldon Litt, psychologist licensed in New York, presently in Stockholm, and refer to the following of his two articles (once a lecture at Stockholm University and Konstnärshuset): "The Psychology of Art (II) Creativity in Art and Science; A Bioenergetic Approach", part I and II.

 TRANSDISCIPLINARITY (TD) AND TRANSFACULTY RESEARCH

Among partners and/or colleagues: Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) at Uppsala university. Transdisciplinarity in Science and the Arts at Collegium Helveticum (ETH), Zurich (2000): * * * *.  Some of the background to our search for a European policy of TD: * * * * *.  A selection of useful external references:  * * * * * *. We collaborate with Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschungs- und Technologiefonds (WWTF), a multidisciplinary initiative in medicine and technology, humanities and arts, social and cultural sciences of the Vienna Municipal Department for Culture and Science ("Art(s) and Sciences Call 2008", *). We are in a process of dynamic exchange with Professor emeritus Gunnar Adler-Karlsson and his Philosophical Park on Anacapri, Italy.

INTEGRATIVE EPISTEMOLOGY IN CLINICAL MEDICINE

 AreMed  - Competence in the service of life. To promote a neglected interdisciplinary theme (interfacultary knowledge integration: social medicine, child psychiatry and human rights of the child): Alliance for the Child to promote awareness on PAS (resources and links page in progress)

A CRITICAL EYE ON REALITY AND SOCIOEPISTEMOLOGY IN PRACTICE

 AreScope (blog discontinued) and Arescope - arenas for societal and cultural critique - political issues such as the need for reinforcing protection of civil and human rights of rare but valuable and contributing minorities including the intellectual and artistic elite in Western Europe.

The AreScope is an integration instrument to spot the confluence of trends, critically evaluate current events and comment on policies for the future of our knowledge society. The key focus is on how Nordic values best can help building a European identity by inviting you to a transdisciplinary dialogue.

Civic Society Policy and Economic System/Business code and culture: Symphony of Europe - Value for Life (exhibit). A Transdisciplinary Approach to Conflict Prevention (text)

NEWS

Peace Prize Nobel Laureate Martti Ahtisaari congratulates founder of Are Akademi to its activities (Nov 19, 2008)

Tore Browaldh in memoriam 2007-03-16

Archbishop in Uppsala KG Hammar presents the Swedish Church social policy for children in letter to founder of Are Akademi (Febr 1, 2006) 

PUBLICATIONS

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A Series of Music Books on History, Aesthetics, Interpretation, Performance and Theory, especially on the art of orchestra conducting and composition

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History - the Are heritage. Working papers: Management, Medicine and Music. Opera - a virtual music drama (The Arreskow Saga).  

Performance *  Compositions *  Publications

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