The LearnScapes are inspired by avantgarde concepts of "mental architecture". Heiner Benking's work on KnowledgeScapes displays how orientation, overview and navigation in multicomplex fields of knowledge are facilitated by arranging knowledge in visual context and using a new (3d-) terminology.	WFS Living LearnScapes A Culture of Sustainability would be the foundation of our future. Yet, an appropriate understanding of either sustainability or culture has become difficult due to abstraction and multicomplexity. To facilitate understanding, we first of all reduce abstraction by giving them Living Faces, Voices and Hands. Sustainability, we divide into "Alternative Futures" and "Good Practice / Solutions". Cultures, we perceive as having seen and unseen aspects, the latter creating and influencing the seen ones. Exploration of such multicomplex themes is further facilitated by combining general overview, context, practical examples, interaction with real people and the use of illustrations. The virtual WFS online environment has its roots in real life and does reach back into reality. Students learn to combine knowhow retrieved from the study of the LearnScapes with local projecteering and interaction with civil society, politicians and media. They experience that their learning process has practical relevance for their personal life beyond the school fence: for knowledge building, self-guided learning, participatory empowerment and civil engagement. As a consequence, students learn to make meaningful use of the new media and the potentials of netizenship. Each LearnScape can be explored separately at any state of knowledge as an individual or group. Learners easily recognize how thematic fields interlink and cannot be separated. As new perspectives and meanings evolve, learners develop a feeling and competence for self-guided, lifelong learning, un-learning and re-learning.
Thematic overview of the LearnScapes 1. Key global frameworks for a sustainable civilization Fair Global Citizen Handbook 2. Old and new learning and education for sustainability Futures of Education Forum 3. Holistic knowledge in sciences and humanities Positive Futures Academy 4. Knowhow and solutions for sustainable societies Exposition Ground 5. Authentic omnicultural education CultureChannel 6. Civil society participation and youth leadership Youth Camp 7. Best practice projecteering Positive News 8. Experiments on new models for society and community Future-Fleet 9. Tools and provisions for self-guided lifelong learning and societal participation Harbour and participatory spaces for exhibiting youth and class-room project results: 10. Mental models facilitating orientation in a globalized world Sculpture Garden 11. Exhibitions and multimedia stages Café Weltgeist
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