Nora Bateson is an award-winning filmmaker, research designer, writer, educator, international lecturer, as well as President of the International Bateson Institute based in Sweden and US. She is the creator of the Warm Data theory and practices. 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?”.

The International Bateson Institute integrates the sciences, arts and professional knowledge to create a qualitative inquiry of the integration of life. As the president of the IBI, Nora directs research projects that require multiple contexts of research. 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”.

Nora Bateson has been invited to countless educational and governmental institutions around the world with Warm Data Labs as a way to address complexity. She has been holding conversations and seminars with international change-makers, ecologists, anthropologists, psychologists, designers, IT people and countless other groups for decades.

She wrote, directed and produced the documentary, An Ecology of Mind, a Daughter’s Portrait of Gregory Bateson. This film offers audiences a lens through which to see the world that affects not only the way we see the world, but how we interact with it.

Nora’s 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 first book, Small Arcs of Larger Circles published by Triarchy Press, UK, 2016 is a revolutionary personal approach to the study of systems and complexity. It has been the central study material of many courses worldwide including the Harvard LILA program.

In her second book Combining, Nora invites us into an ecology of communication where nothing stands alone, and every action sets off a chain of incalculable consequences. She challenges conventional fixes for our problems, highlighting the need to tackle issues at multiple levels, understand interdependence, and embrace ambiguity.

Memberships and awards: Chairman and founder of the International Bateson Institute. Associate of The Taos Institute. Board Member: General Semantics Institute, Capital Institute, Tomorrow Makers, Fellow of Lindisfarne Foundation, Bateson Idea Group (BIG), Club of Rome, World Academy of Arts & Sciences, Great Transition Foundation, Human Potential Foundation, Awards: Sustainable Thompkins Award, Winner Spokane Film Festival, Winner Santa Cruz Film Festival, Recipient of the 2019 Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity