REFLECTIONS ON THE NEW AGORAS PROJECT:A REPORT ON A FUSCHL CONVERSATION

摘要

The New Agoras Project is the result of the leadership of Bela Banathy in encouraging ideal-seeking conversations in many venues, including the Fuschl conversations held for many years in Fuschl, Austria, under the sponsorship of the International Federation for Systems Research. In April 2002 one of the conversations in Fuschl, Austria, was devoted to the New Agoras Project. Doug Walton and Patricia Gill had participated in earlier meetings on the New Agoras Project and so led the conversation. The co-authors of this paper were new to discussions of the New Agoras Project but were familiar with other similar efforts in several countries. This paper is a reflection on the conversation that occurred in Fuschl, compares the New Agoras Project with the work of the Institute of Cultural Affairs, and lists of websites and other work that we believe are related to the intent of the New Agoras Project.