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Welcome

This website begins sharing 25 years of Dr Marika Bouchon’s research, observation in situ, field testing, and practice. It introduces a geometric mode of understanding as a modelling method. It is extremely difficult to explain in words because very few people know about the dimensions of geometry that are the root of topology and logic. Yet it is simple to understand how simple geometric shapes can figure a process as instant views of  the shaping of a situation.

The Foraging Station Experiment

This flagship experiment explores how collaboration between opposite perspectives such as the philosophy of human advancement and the philosophy of nature, can actually occur, if based on the Topologic Situation Modelling© method. As a pilot  field research, this experiment will help show practically the added value of a ‘topologic’ ecology: a complementary option to existing solutions, and will explore how using grounded ingenuity (resourcefulness and small technologies) can achieve minimal disturbance for both humans and nature. For more detail, read furhter down this page, or visit the tab Station.

Applications to current issues of the theoretical modelling method and of the practical Aninated Geometry

For a sense of how the theory can apply to real situations, visit in particular the page Atelier>Open Letter To Thinkers m concerned with the global problems, or the page Atelier>Obstacles To Females, which presents unusual angles about this, including health, with consequences for the human species.

"I am really interested to see more of your modeling. I love the paragraph where you describe similar very important concepts. The pre-shock drift is, sadly, completely missed by many physicians, which leads to more severe late-stage conditions. One possible reason is that parameters we choose here are generally not stored in a graphic way but instead as numbers".

— Pr. Henri Francois Cuénoud, cardiologist, University of Massachusetts Medical School and UmassMemorial Medical Center (2008 personal communication). Stages of Shock  http://cardiovascular-pathologist.com/

"The HPI [intellectually gifted] have an organic, physiological, kinesic approach, and they have a topologic interior universe, of abstractions. It's a world that I love, beautiful, a silent world, it's another world..."

— Fabrice Micheau, expert on highly intellectually gifted (THPI), executive consultant/coach, strategy, crisis management. Congrès de la Douance (online), 10 October 2020 – Translated excerpts.

"Your research work is too important to disappear with you."

Pr. Tony Attwood, Queensland, Australia, clinical psychologist, expert on Asperger’s Syndrome, speaker, author.

"The notion that our reactivity is a changeable experience is an exciting concept. I think many of my patients who suffer chronic pain would benefit from these thoughts on distinguishing their sensitivity - that which they are born with - from their reactions to things and level of reactivity - that which can be at least partly brought under control. "

— Dr Patrick Mudge, Osteopath, Queensland, Australia

« I just listened to your first 'Dragon' video. Very interesting precisions. When you mention psycho-linguistics, I recognized myself completely. You have an extremely rich, unique background, and I find it very rewarding to listen to you. »

— Anthony Gasquet, coach for the gifted, Nice, France

Earth at Boundary - Dr Marika Bouchon
Ease of Health
Tributes for Dr Marika Bouchon's research
Tributes

The Scope of this research

A method based on topology – what kind?

Topology is a geometric discipline of mathematics. It studies small distortions that do not change the properties of a geometric figure and involves geometric dimensions (e.g. 2D, 3D…), but it has come to primarily be used to describe patterns and complex shapes, or large transformations.

Here, the topology used remains quite simple, refers to shaping (change process) rather than shapes, and is non-algorithmic. This kind of modelling is useful in health: for example, subtle alterations of physiology can be felt but are not detected by instruments or external observation. Yet they can be used as indicators of need, even before ‘early’ signs of disease, just as large deformations are symptoms of established disease or lost organic integrity.

This modelling is also a dimensional logic of shifting states, or stages of deployment in a situation. This can be used to understand how it shapes up, whether progressively, simultaneously, or suddenly, and therefore to know the whence and wither of the situation. For example, it helps understand conflicts of general perspectives on life and the current difficulty in changing human behaviour on the planet.

Modelling what other methods cannot explain

This research addresses generically a domain that other methods of knowledge, specific and general, leave mostly unexplained, such as idiopathic medical conditions, theoretical anomalies, paradoxical deployment of opposites, and some enigmas of human behaviour still considered mysterious or with controversial explanations.

For example, it sheds new light on the societal dissonance, sensitivity, and unusual needs of individuals who are neurologically non-typical. This impacts why organised society has difficulty accommodating them, or even taking this into account. Applied as a topologic ecology of health, for a person or the planet, the method offers new options at various scales.

This research responded to a call, in the 1990s, by some theorists for a new way of looking at things, when the 1980s somehow did not solve the problems expected to be soon solved (e.g. pollution, overpopulation), but created new problems. Complex systems have since been used to model crises themselves, how we manage or seek to learn to live with them (in particular in medical sub-clinical syndromes), and to adapt to critical conditions by transforming, or returning to a previous state.

‘Gauging’ crisis and limits to resorb them early, rather than describing them after the fact

The Animated Geometry presented on this website enables to model the arising of crisis states (manifest in early signs) and reveals that they could rather be altogether resorbed. This method can serve to ‘gauge’ situations that are still only near-critical, and enables action before crisis or catastrophe looms or transformation becomes necessary.

Given the generic scope of this work, the website offers varied ways of approaching several implications of the research findings.

Various ways to use the understanding of why new solutions keep creating more problems, and of  ‘not separating’

The current global situation is problematic at several scales: climate change, the general drift in human health and sanity, the role of economic development in poverty and education, social polarisations, the impact of society on human intelligence (rising and falling, in different populations), the effects of AI and other technologies, biodiversity, and dwindling resources needed for biological life itself. The acceleration and spiraling out of hand of the gaps increase the urgency to have a way of understanding why all this is, without separating scales, biosphere from humans, or local from global situations.

To make significant change collaboratively, we must account for both our human or conscious differences and our human-being sameness, but also bring out their common operational ground with other animals and biological life. The trend towards de-fragmentaion is usually understood as a need to reintegrate parts, or integrate into new ‘wholes’, or to make complex connections, for example between research fields. This is useful, certainly, but this website is an opportunity to explore a new way of understanding this.

Doing, not just talking

The Foraging Station Experiment is one way to show by doing rather than just talking about theories, philosophies or numbers, in order to quickly initiate the collaboration between scales and actually begin working together.

If, like me, you wish to help break down barriers to acting effectively at all levels for and actions by everyone, you are warmly welcome to support this research and field experiment through sharing it to your network, offering the gift of your specialised expertise, or giving resources for the station.

Kindly support this research and the Foraging Station Experiment

Highlights of this Website

The Foraging Station Experiment

This flagship fieldwork research project, if enabled, is part of the explorations to address individual health difficulties that correlate with societal isolation, and to address the global problems that face planetary ecology, and the fabric of society. Concrete aspects of this pilot research are presented in the tab ‘Station’ and interactive mind-maps.

Atelier (workshop)

This section presents 2 topics for discussion (hence ‘workshop’), in application of the research findings to issues that have beaten reasoning and collective agreement for millennia because they cannot be pinned down to purely physical or mental aspects of human behaviour, nor purely attributed to material or social aspects of civilised society, or a combination:

  • how to stop human extremes and excesses, and
  • the origin of the obstacles faced by females in their efforts, so we can undo them or stop their appearance in every new aspect of society

Geometry (Animated Geometry)

The tab Geometry presents the ‘topologic thinking space’ in the mind tha makes maps, models, and extrapolates.

The sub-page ‘Geometric Dimensions’ presents the use of the ‘Rubber Sheet Geometry’ in this work and a different cultural meaning for the geometric dimension 1D.

The sub-page ‘Parameters of Representation’ describes how we create conventionalised representations in the mind and perspectives in experience. A video animation on Youtube will demonstrate how we ‘take perspective’ in both explanation and experience.

A link at the bottom takes you to the Youtube channel ‘Cognitive Animated Geometry’, which is used for videos containing computer animations.

Perspectives

The 2008 multi-media PhD thesis is available in full in the section ‘Theory’.

The section ‘Perspectives’ collects past contributions from before 2018, some academic, and others discussions in various contexts; still others arose during eight years of fieldwork. All of them were part of a slow process of  exploring many research fields to find vocabularies that can help explain what the Animated Geometry is, its practical uses, and its simple nature using basic shapes.

 

Essentials of Topologic Ecology

The page Topologic Ecology  presents a series of short summaries concerning essential aspects of this discipline, and a collected file providing a quick overview of the essential notions in this research.

Outreach

The tab ‘Outreach’ takes you to online videos on Youtube. The one described on this page makes conceptual clarifications about sensitivity and reactivity in the individual.

Resources

This is a list of seminal articles, books, and mini-videos to inspire you.

I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land where I work and live. I pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging. I celebrate the stories, culture and traditions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders of all communities who also work and live on this land.