Reframing a fundamental attractor as a target

The-O Ring and The Bull Ring as Spectacular Archetypes (Part #4)

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Curiously the international community frames many strategic initiatives in terms of targets and goals. Most evident are the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). A more recent articulation of the global challenge is that of Johan Rockstrom and Will Steffen (Planetary Boundaries: exploring the safe operating space for humanity, 2009). The conclusion was presented as a circular mapping which was then adapted by Kate Raworth (A Safe and Just Space for Humanity: can we live within the doughnut?, Oxfam, February 2012) presented on the left below.

Both mappings have been reframed into the image on the right below. This is discussed separately with respect to the feasibility of remedial strategies (Recognizing the Psychosocial Boundaries of Remedial Action: constraints on ensuring a safe operating space for humanity, 2009; Exploring the Hidden Mysteries of Oxfam's Doughnut: recognizing the systemic negligence of an Earth Summit, 2012).

Oxfam Doughnut (from Kate Raworth, A Safe and Just Space for Humanity: can we live within the doughnut?, 2012).	Nine remedial capacity boundaries using the representational pattern of the Planetary Boundaries (2009) [click image for enlargement]

With respect to this argument, it is the sense of goal and target that calls for further consideration. The question is how collective attention is focused on a "target" -- as implied by the image on the left below. A sense of how a "focus" may act to divert attention around it is provided by the image on the right.

Conventional representation of a "target" -- a metaphor for collective endeavour	Mapping a neglected "global underground" (from Mapping the Global Underground, 2010) [click image for enlargement]

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