G04 Belonging

What is belonging? Is it a feeling, a process, a physical state? Who belongs to what? What are the benefits and costs/risks of belonging?

What are more-then-human mechanisms of belonging? Cf. Biosemiotics

Cf. Belonging


Is belonging a good thing?

Can you define belonging as an evolutionary information processing strategy?

Signpost what you are saying for the reader or listener. They will not necessarity realise this.

How do you know that the new buildings create a profound sense of belonging? Again, why is this good, especially in the mobile world.

Provide examples of belonging across concrete stakeholders:

  • young girl
  • old man
  • dog
  • fish
  • insect
  • bacterium

Describe dynamics and the desirability of belonging in the future.