In this paper, the concept of bridging between different levels of mental activity that characterizes artistic thought (Bateson in Steps to an ecology of mind: collected essays in anthropology, psychiatry, evolution, and epistemology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1972) is reinterpreted and expanded in light of the theory of generative orders (Bohm and Peat in Science, order and creativity. Bantam Books, New York, 1987) and the attention given to boundaries by Hartmann (Boundaries, a new way to look at the world. CIRCC EverPress, Summerland, CA, 2011). This allows us to introduce the concept of “generative borders”. Ordinarily, a border is understood as a reality that delimits and brings into contact different pre-existing entities; the term “generative borders” refers to realities whose complexity is higher and preceding the actualization of borders in the ordinary sense; therefore, it is in the first instance the borders that generate entities distinct and at the same time united by the condition of togetherness (Stierlin in Ways to the heart-a systemic compendium for couples in verse and illustrations. Carl-Auer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2005). Paradigmatic of this condition and particularly relevant with regards to dwelling and design is the consideration of the person as a generative border from which the self, the other and the environment arise. Being a creative reality, a generative border is inaccessible to a complete representation and implies the acceptance of the alternation of vision and blindness, light and darkness not only in an epistemological sense but also in an ontological one (Schinco in Uso e riuso dei luoghi come atto creativo. Crossroads|Incroci. Accademia Adrianea Edizioni, Rome, 2025). Within this framework, the regeneration of places is a complex mental activity that specifically stimulates and empowers the creativity of those who carry out design activities. To ensure that the language of design and regeneration activities do not betray the emotional vitality of being, the necessary listening to places (Schinco in Reinventing relations: healing wounded spaces and times. Springer Nature, Cham, pp. 181–192, 2022) requires a mental state, both for individuals and groups, characterized by the continuity of states of consciousness, particularly by attention to bridging dream thinking (Ullman in Wholeness and dreaming. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London and New York, 1987; Hartmann in Dreaming 18:44–57, 2008) and design thinking.

Re-generative B-Orders and Bridging Between Places and Self

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Massimo Schinco

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In this paper, the concept of bridging between different levels of mental activity that characterizes artistic thought (Bateson in Steps to an ecology of mind: collected essays in anthropology, psychiatry, evolution, and epistemology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1972) is reinterpreted and expanded in light of the theory of generative orders (Bohm and Peat in Science, order and creativity. Bantam Books, New York, 1987) and the attention given to boundaries by Hartmann (Boundaries, a new way to look at the world. CIRCC EverPress, Summerland, CA, 2011). This allows us to introduce the concept of “generative borders”. Ordinarily, a border is understood as a reality that delimits and brings into contact different pre-existing entities; the term “generative borders” refers to realities whose complexity is higher and preceding the actualization of borders in the ordinary sense; therefore, it is in the first instance the borders that generate entities distinct and at the same time united by the condition of togetherness (Stierlin in Ways to the heart-a systemic compendium for couples in verse and illustrations. Carl-Auer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2005). Paradigmatic of this condition and particularly relevant with regards to dwelling and design is the consideration of the person as a generative border from which the self, the other and the environment arise. Being a creative reality, a generative border is inaccessible to a complete representation and implies the acceptance of the alternation of vision and blindness, light and darkness not only in an epistemological sense but also in an ontological one (Schinco in Uso e riuso dei luoghi come atto creativo. Crossroads|Incroci. Accademia Adrianea Edizioni, Rome, 2025). Within this framework, the regeneration of places is a complex mental activity that specifically stimulates and empowers the creativity of those who carry out design activities. To ensure that the language of design and regeneration activities do not betray the emotional vitality of being, the necessary listening to places (Schinco in Reinventing relations: healing wounded spaces and times. Springer Nature, Cham, pp. 181–192, 2022) requires a mental state, both for individuals and groups, characterized by the continuity of states of consciousness, particularly by attention to bridging dream thinking (Ullman in Wholeness and dreaming. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London and New York, 1987; Hartmann in Dreaming 18:44–57, 2008) and design thinking.