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 »
Integral City 2.0 Develops Innovation Ecosystems
Posted in Building - Structures, city, D. Strategic Intelligences, Navigating - IVSM, tagged City 2.0, curitiba brazil, design, ecology, emergence, governance systems, human hive, indicators, innovation, leadership, metro vancouver, Murcia, Songpa, sustainability, Sydney, wellbeing on February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Integral City 2.0 innovation systems are emerging because conscious capitalists, governments, students and citizens are aligning strategies for leaders, organizations and governance systems to transform entire cities from resistant holdouts to resilient human hives. Humans as Gaia’s most “reflective organ” have located 50% of our species’ brain trust in the world’s cities. We are starting to see the shape of Integral [...]
Education Creates Habitats for Learning What Works in City 2.0
Posted in D. Strategic Intelligences, Inner, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged carbon footprint, City 2.0, city education, cycle of life, developmental journey, education, innovation culture, integral, integral education on January 26, 2012 | 3 Comments »
How do we create an education system for the City 2.0 that the TED Prize 2012 imagines? How can we learn to integrate education with innovation, culture, and economic opportunity? When might we agree to reduce the carbon footprint of City 2.0 occupants, facilitate smaller families, and ease the environmental pressure on the world’s rural areas? What will inspire us to create a place [...]
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 [...]
