Dialogue implications of design and geometry

Middle East Peace Potential through Dynamics in Spherical Geometry (Part #8)

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One approach to the pentagonal and hexagonal spaces is to see them as different dialogue arenas, whether in terms of theme or style. Common sides in any configuration of those spaces -- pentagon meets hexagon -- could be interpreted as a common discussion thread, or as an issue confronted from two sides.

In complex situations like the Middle East there are many fora and many discussion threads. There is little attention to how these constitute any kind of system -- or to how different dialogue arenas might be related. The issue has been partly explored separately (Interweaving Thematic Threads and Learning Pathways: noonautics, magic carpets and wizdomes, 2010),  notably in relation to configuration through the web in three-dimensions (Spherical Configuration of Interlocking Roundtables: Internet enhancement of global self-organization through patterns of dialogue, 1998), and notably in relation to governance (Enabling a 12-fold Pattern of Systemic Dialogue for Governance, 2011).

With respect to a pattern of dialogue arenas envisaged as "two-dimensional", the question is how to envisage the "hooking capacity" which would enable the pattern as a whole to be "folded" into "three-dimensions" -- whatever that may be understood in terms of greater integration, "clicking into place", or enabling emergence and recognition of understandings of a subtler order. Such understandings are of course acclaimed in principle in the case of faiths obliged to offer two-dimensional reflections of an understanding which cannot be fully embodied within such constraints.

A pattern of dialogue arenas in "two-dimensions" may simply not be viable, however they are shuffled into different configurations -- as suggested by the animation. To what degree it may "work" in "three-dimensions" remains to be determined, and therefore merits attention.

Reference is made to the football design, as an illustration of the truncated icosahedron when describing carbon buckyballs or the root structure of geodesic domes, as separately discussed (Understanding Sustainable Dialogue: the secret within Bucky's Ball? 1996).

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