How does a village become?

How do multiplicity of voices and cultures sing the harmony of living and working together?

How do persons with different languages communicate?

Coordinate life? Work-life? Lifework?

Collaborate.

What is that place of possibilities?

The place of gathering, encounters, meeting and exchange?

What ultimately are the gifts being exchanged in such meetings?

What are the discoveries that can only become possible and crystallise into reality in the arrival, greeting, and meeting of the other?

This is the first of many microsummits that Bilberries Blue shall co-host our invited guests in Singapore.

And we open with Warm Data.

The interspaces of such relationals between persons, institutions and our natural world. Let’s jump into the courageously complex and inarticulably mysterious, beautiful world of Ms Nora Bateson.

Liminal Leadership

“The kind of leadership that I want to explore may not be identifiable as leadership at all. I am interested in a kind of mutually alert care and attention to the well-being of all people and ecological systems. This kind of leadership cannot be found in individuals, but rather between them. It cannot be found in organisations, nations, religions or institutions, but rather between them. I have called it Liminal Leadership to highlight the relational characteristics.” -Nora Bateson

CONTACT:

Vashima Goyal, vashima@bilberriesblue.com

&

Peng-Ean Khoo, pengean@bilberriesblue.com

Youtube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCStbvZAZFsKYjRgngNLXFmQ

Event Program: Day One and Two

DAY ONE:

10:00 am – 10:45 am: Register & Mingle

181 Orchard Road

10:45 am – 11:45 am: Warm Data Talk: https://batesoninstitute.org/warm-data/

1:45 am – 12:30 pm: Q&A

12:30 pm – 1.30 pm: Lunch at Café One O (optional)

DAY TWO:

10:00 am – 10:30 am: Gather & Walk UphillBay Hotel Singapore (Lobby at Level 3)

10:30 am – 12:30 pm: Warm Data talk

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm: An Ecology of FoodMake your own farm to fork lunch from Food Forest Farm, Sigar Highlands

2:00 pm – 4.30 pm: Liminal Leadership

4:30 pm – 5.00 pm: Finale

Directions

Google “Directions to 10 Square”. Nearest MRT is Somerset. Go to Lift Lobby A (check with

Orchard Central Mall Concierge if unsure), and take lift to 10 th Floor. Turn Left for

Auditorium. Turn Right for Café.

Dress Code: Smart casual(Bring your own apron for Day two!)

What is happening?

Day One: We begin the micro-summit with trans contextual meetings. Bring a gift, an offering or an artifact; that represents you, what you do and what you hope to share with the world.Together, we will be creating a mobile contemporary artwork so that the ecology of artifacts can converse with emerging communities and economies of possibilities beyond the micro-summit. Bring two gifts. One to travel, one for a new friend. Find a new possibility and exchange a gift.

Day Two: We shall meet at the Bay Hotel Singapore (Lobby at Level 3) and begin our symmathesy with Nora Bateson

Symmathesy (Verb):to interact within multiple variables to produce a mutual learning context.

Sewing Hope: https://theartistshouseipoh.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/hope/

The continuity of the threads of our hopes will be the act of sewing together in a mobile contemporary art work that will be gifted to children in our One Love School Development accompaniment: https://onelovefamily.net/about/education/

Warm Data:https://batesoninstitute.org/warm-data/

Warm Data is information about the interrelationships that integrate elements of a complex system. The implications for the uses of Warm Data are staggering, and may offer a whole new dimension to the tools of information science we have to work with at present.

Liminal Leadership: “The kind of leadership that I want to explore may not be identifiable as leadership at all. I am interested in a kind of mutually alert care and attention to the well-being of all people and ecological systems. This kind of leadership cannot be found in individuals, but rather between them. It cannot be found in organizations, nations, religions or institutions, but rather between them. I have called it Liminal Leadership to highlight the relational characteristics.” – Nora Bateson

About warm data:

This is Nora's own website on what Warm data is

https://batesoninstitute.org/warm-data/

we might find other species of information and new patterns of connection not visible though current methodologies.

ABOUT NORA BATESON

www.batesoninstitute.org

Nora Bateson, is an award-winning filmmaker, research designer, writer and educator, as well as President of the International Bateson Institute (“IBI”) based in Sweden. Her work asks the question “How we can improve our perception of the complexity we live within, so we may improve our interaction with the world?”. An international lecturer, researcher and writer, Nora wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary, An Ecology of Mind, a portrait of her father, Gregory Bateson. Her work brings the fields of biology, cognition, art, anthropology, psychology, and information technology together into a study of the patterns in ecology of living systems. Her book, Small Arcs of Larger Circles released by Triarchy Press, UK, 2016 is a revolutionary personal approach to the study of systems and complexity, and the core text of the Harvard University LILA program 2017-18. Her new book, Warm Data, will be released in 2019 by Triarchy Press.

The IBI integrates the sciences, arts and professional knowledge to create a qualitative inquiry of the integration of life. Nora is the president of the International Bateson Institute, directing research projects that require multiple contexts of research and interdependent processes. Asking, “How we can create a context in which to study the contexts?” An impressive team of international thinkers, scientists and artists have been brought together by the IBI to generate an innovative form of inquiry, which Nora coined “Transcontextual Research” and the corresponding new form of information she dubbed: “Warm Data”. A group process created by Nora, called the ‘Warm Data Lab’ has been the public outreach model of this research. Over 100 groups around the world have participated in Warm Data Labs to assist in developing the ability to perceive complexity.

In addition Bateson is also credited with the innovation of the neologism "symmathesy," and the corresponding theoretical essay bearing the same title. Bateson defines this neologism as "An entity composed by contextual mutual learning through interaction. This process of interaction and mutual learning takes place in living entities at larger or smaller scales of symmathesy."

As an educator she has developed curricula for schools in Northern California, and produced and directed award winning multimedia projects on intercultural and ecological understanding. Her work, which has been presented at the world’s top universities, is described as “offering audiences a lens through which to see the world that effects not only the way we see, but also the way we think”. Nora’s work in facilitating cross-disciplinary discussions is part of her research into what she calls, “the ecology of the conversation”. Her speaking engagements include keynote addresses and lectures at international conferences and universities on a wide range of topics that span the fields of anti-fascism, ecology, education, the arts, family therapy, leadership and many more aspects of advocacy for living systems-- she travels between conversations in different fields bringing multiple perspectives into view to reveal larger patterns.

Memberships and awards: Chairman and founder of the International Bateson Institute. Associate of The Taos Institute. Board Member: Human Systems Journal of Systemic Practice, Tallberg Foundation, Tomorrow Makers, Fellow of Lindsifarne Foundation, Bateson Idea Group (BIG), Club of Rome, World Academy of Arts & Sciences, Great Transition Foundation, Human Potential Foundation, Awards: Sustainable Thompkins Ecology Award, Winner Spokane Film Festival, Winner Santa Cruz Film Festival, Media Ecology Award.

ABOUT BILBERRIES BLUE

www.bilberriesblue.com

The Sustainability Stewards of Bilberries Blue research, develop and through collaborative knowledge-sharing applications co-build the ESG Economy which is guided by our proprietary model of The Economics of Universal Wellbeing. Bilberries Blue is transdisciplinary: economics, business, finance, technology, care, health & wellbeing, pedagogy, arts, science, ecology, contemplation, global relations, and community.

THE RICE COMPANY LIMITED (TRCL)

www.therice.sg

The RICE Company Limited (TRCL) is a not-for-profit arts organisation that seek to build a sustainable arts ecosystem to benefit under-served children and youths in our community.

TRCL was incorporated on 26 March 2014 and is a registered charity with an IPC (Institutions of a Public Character) status.