Today ’s cities are being transformed by activists. Tomorrow’s cities will be transformed by AQALists. What is the difference? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Today’s activists demonstrate their beliefs through confrontive action. They stand up against injustices, rules, authorities and infrastructure by blocking access for as many people as possible. They are willing to threaten power, throw projectiles and thrust their bodies [...]
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Integral City 2.0 Requires a Momentous Leap from Activism to AQALism
Posted in B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, city, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Integral Maps, tagged activists, AQALists, belief systems, change, City 2.0, evolution, Gaia, human freedom, inner reflection, integral, ongoing development, spiritual depths, wellbeing on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
How Do We Design Healthcare Systems for Integral City 2.0?
Posted in city, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Lifecycle, Navigating - IVSM, Outer, tagged change, City 2.0, evolution, health, healthcare, healthcare design, human hive, major cities of the world, major healthcare systems, Principles, whole systems thinking on January 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Designing healthcare systems that serve the wellbeing of Integral City 2.0 begins with remembering “health” comes from the same root as the word “whole”. Healthcare in the human hive is based on the principles of Life and Evolution . Wholistic healthcare systems are rooted in natural science and embody values and cultural intentions. Principles that contribute to appropriate [...]
Integral Sustainable Design for City 2.0
Posted in Building - Structures, city, Integral Maps, tagged City 2.0, DeKay, design, integral, integral design, integral theory, new paradigm, sustainability on January 24, 2012 | 2 Comments »
How would we approach the built design for Integral City 2.0? Could we find a designer with the depths of consciousness, design repertoire, cultural acuity and systemic prowess to imagine Integral City 2.0 designs? I propose a likely candidate would be Architect, Mark DeKay to lead us with the wisdom of Integral Sustainable Design. In [...]
City Leaders Amplify Weak Signals, Quicken Collective Intelligence
Posted in C. Collective Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Emergence, Meshworking, tagged conformity enforcers, diversity generators, human hive, leadership, meshworks, self-organizing system, weak signals on January 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
New research shows the power of the web to spread diversity and infect conformity by the provocation of weak signals. Farhad Manjoo from Slate reconsiders his(?) book True Enough’s proposition that the web was narrowing networkers’ worlds to the news/info selections that they chose. Now Facebook has released a study with an interesting design (based on millions [...]
How is Integral City a Human Hive?
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, tagged generativity, honey bees, human hive, integral, matter and energy, regional scale, sustainability, wellbeing, whole systems thinking on January 12, 2012 | 2 Comments »
An Integral City is a complex adaptive human system that concentrates habitat for humans like a bee hive does for bees. As a natural system it faces all the same issues, factors and challenges that affect the concentration of life anywhere: sustaining flows of information, matter and energy for the survival of human life. Serving [...]
Dynamic Meshworking Patterns the Human Hive
Posted in Building - Structures, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Emergence, Meshworking, tagged human hive, infrastructure development, integral city intelligences, linear city, linear patterns, meshwork, meshworks, self-organizing system, whole systems thinking on December 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Energy, information and matter tracking technology is revealing behavioral secrets of the Human Hive. Three of the best examples I’ve found are: Britain from Above - this BBC series explores explores the evolution of Britain’s infrastructure development from agriculture to transportation, communication to education, and cities to rural redevelopment across the ages. Mesh Cities – a new website whose [...]
