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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
TheoryU Design for Integral Sustainability Meshwork
Posted in D. Strategic Intelligences, Master Intelligence, Meshworking, tagged design, integral city intelligences, Master Code, meshwork, practice, Principles, Theory U on September 21, 2011 | 4 Comments »
At Experience Integral’s Embody Integral Sustainability Conference convenor Anouk Brack very wisely used a Theory U design for the five day discovery process. Theory U process is based on the work of Otto Scharmer and is a multi-stage experience that enables a group to traverse the territory from initiation, to sensing, to presencing, to crystallizing to prototyping. and co-creating. I [...]
Five Wisdoms = Evolutionary Intelligences for Sustainability of the Human Hive
Posted in C. Collective Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Emergence, Meshworking, Spiritual intelligence, Uncategorized, tagged energies, Five Wisdoms, human hive, integral city intelligences, Irini Rockwell, meshwork, Principles, self-organizing system, sustainability on September 8, 2011 | 8 Comments »
The Experience Integral Conference incorporated powerful practitioners and technologies into its design for the Embodying Integral Sustainability Conference. Five Wisdoms was a new approach for Integral City to working with spiritual practice, energy and collaboration. Five Wisdoms lead us to a place where we could apply it to the Roles in the Sustainability Leadership Meshwork that we developed (along with Souls, Goals [...]
New Science Explains City Behaviours
Posted in E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Meshworking, Uncategorized, tagged change, design, fractal;, Geoffrey West, integral city intelligences, meshwork, sustainability on September 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Go listen to Geoffrey West – there he is again! My friends and colleagues say go to hear his talk on Why Cities Keep Growing. When more than three people recommend a site to me, then I sit up and take notice. In this case I am happy to say that I followed the link [...]
12 Intelligence Principles for Integral City to Celebrate on Earth Day
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Inner, Inquiry, Integral Maps, Lifecycle, Master Intelligence, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Outer, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged Earth Day, integral city intelligences, Principles on April 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
P 1. Ecosphere Intelligence 1. Honor the climate and geography of your city. 2. Steward the environment. 3. Add value to the Earth space. P 2. Emerging Intelligence 1. Survive so holons serve each other’s existence. 2. Adapt to the environment. 3. Create a self-regenerating feedback loop, by interconnecting human regeneration cycles so that they [...]
Merchants & Philanthropists Creating & Using Diasporas
Posted in C. Collective Intelligences, Emergence, Ethno, Global/Worldcentric, Meshworking, Uncategorized, tagged diaspora, economy, human hive, Middle East, weak signal, whole systems thinking on March 4, 2011 | Comments Off
The weak signals that diasporas emit into and outside of systems reported earlier this week is the subject of a new book. Parag Khanna, a Distinguished Visitor at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto has just released “How to Run the World”. Excerpts in today’s National Post read: “In the Middle [...]
Are Diasporas Potential Meshworkable Cultural Accelerators?
Posted in C. Collective Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Emergence, Meshworking, Uncategorized, tagged diaspora, immigration, meshwork, Middle East, North Africa on March 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The watch continues as events unfold in North African and the Middle Eastern cities and countries. We wonder whether and how autocracies in these places may be superseded by autocracy, theocracy or even democracy? Each country is different so most informed observers don’t expect that a single solution will emerge across all countries. From the outside of this area, all we can see [...]
Integral City Intelligences for Sustainable City Class
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, city, climate, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Inner, Inquiry, Integral Maps, Lifecycle, Master Intelligence, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Outer, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged Colwood, education, integral, integral city intelligences, Resources for Mayors, Royal Roads University, sustainability on February 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I spent last week at Royal Roads University delivering the first Residency of the Sustainability Graduate Certificate. Ten students from across Canada provided a rigorous proving ground for the Integral City approach to sustainability. Using the Integral City Compass to prove the design with three leverage points, here is what we did. Integral City Compass [...]
