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Radically Optimistic Solstice Exec Summary from Integral City 2.0 Online Conference

Posted in E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Master Intelligence, Spiritual intelligence, tagged , , , , , , , , , on December 21, 2012 | 3 Comments »


The Integral City 2.0 Online Conference gathered 60 visionary thought leaders, designers and practitioners, with 600 participants from 6 continents, to inquire into how to design a new operating system for the city. The 12-day Conference allowed exploration of each of the 12 intelligences from the book, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive, and their contributions to city vitality.

IntegralCity collective City 2.0

The Conference was designed to be co-generative and appreciative, with an action research focus, collecting data through guided interviews aligned with each of the 12 intelligences. Over 70 hours of recorded interviews and dialogue were generated (audio podcasts and webinars), and subsequently transcribed into over 500 pages of transcripts. 660 thought leaders, designers, practitioners and participants gathered synchronously and asynchronously in a spirit of radical optimism, an essential evolutionary aspect of life.

The four voices of the Integral City – city-zens (UL) , civil society (LL), government/agency (UR), and business/organization (LR) – confirmed that a new operating system for the city is needed because cities face global crises related to water, food, energy, finance and climate change. The four Integral City voices say that this operating system resides within each of us and between us. Moreover, the new operating system is epitomized by, and optimized with, the Master Code: take care of self, take care of others, take care of this place/planet.

In exploring the Master Code, we found that principles of living systems resonate with the intelligences and principles of Integral City. This was independently confirmed by 5 visionaries using different lenses of human systems: groups, cities, sustainable design, investment and organizations. Our data shows that our ecological transactions, cultural translations, structural transformations and planetary evolution are emerging the early stages of a collective consciousness. The city is co-creating us and we are co-creating it. The city is alive.

The new operating system for cities embraces a transdisciplinary design with strategies that embrace all four Integral quadrants: UL Intentional, LL Cultural, UR Behavioral, and LR Structural. It embraces a desire to act as a planet of cities embedding living system, resilience and life cycle strategies. The Integral intelligence of the new operating system allows cities to be Gaia’s reflective organs, with human city-zens as the cells in that organ, their wellbeing dependent on their relationships with each other and the planet. The logic processors of the new operating system connect the dots by aligning purpose, priorities, people and planet with the natural flow of information, energy and matter. Finally the power source for the new operating system is an evolutionary manifestation of the Master Code, with care and compassion as core, renewing energy.

It is not enough to ask what can the city do for us? It is time to ask what can we do for the city? City-centric individuals and organizations with vested city interests (governments/agencies, business, civil society) must play catalytic roles – to co-generate inquiry, innovate learning and strengthen city relationships as the true currency for evolving city capacity and spirit.

This is our Executive Summary of the Radically Optimistic Inquiry into Operating System 2.0. The full proceedings will be released in January 2013. Drop us a line if you want to be on our notice list. Subject: Proceedings  integralcity@gmail.com

… the city sends signals to itself
for speed, agility, vitality
using any channel
to connect
civilization to nature
making sense together
using all means
to manifest
connectivity …

Meshworks Manifest, B. Sanders

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Emergent Designers Seek Energetic City 2050 for Arnhem

Posted in Building - Structures, Emergence, H. Research, Inquiry, Integral Maps, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on May 10, 2012 | 3 Comments »


Emergent Intelligence in the city enables survival, adaptation and regeneration of the whole human system.  Last week I was exploring how designers apply Emergent Intelligence in Arnhem, NL working with Alliander and Freedom Lab to explore Energetic City 2050.

Over the next six months, three teams are exploring how people in the city could generate their own power. Each with their own manifestos, and with a diversity of approaches, Innergy, Markt and Netwerk will explore energy, regenerativity and energetics apparently from all four quadrants of the Integral City.

As designers, in the Human Hive, I am curious to see how they will explore regeneration as it occurs through biological reproduction and inner renewal, shared learning and teaching and coaching others in roles, competencies and capacities? Will self-organizing energy production enable new forms of renewal as the city, like all living systems, will develop new cyclical habits that enable the accumulation, exploitation, distribution and redeployment of resources (the four stages of resilience identified by Gunderson and Holling et al)?

While Arnhem is set in the verdant food production area of eastern Netherlands, by shifting energy sources, how will emergence (a characteristic of living systems), arise from the resonance and coherence of the city system with its agricultural environment? How will the teams design resonance to emerge as the new city systems align externally to the city’s environment? Will they find new ways for the city to literally resonate with its surroundings? With the imaginations of artists, engineers, architects, social workers and IT designers, I am anticipating some surprising emergences and coherences will arise from the realignment of all the elements of the city system so that energy can be optimized. And when both resonance and coherence become synchronized what new capacities may emerge in the city system?

I am excited to see what new capacities for sustainability may emerge as a newly energized city invents new ways to embrace order, strategic planning, caring and sharing and systemizing.

This Experiment is an Inspiring Route to Liberating City Design! Before I left the first (of four) Energetic City 2050 Intensive, I could see the teams were already operating as if the city was not a system of parts, but a whole system of the human species (essentially an ecology of whole-parts or holons). Thus as they explored designs for a system of wholes, the city’s holarchy of  communities, organizations, groups, families and individuals and the built environment were going to open up to whole new potentials.

Kudos to the imaginations behind this daring experiment (Karin Rikkers of Alliander, and Alex VanOost especially) – it opens the way for  the healthy functioning of all the holons in one city and demonstrates how emergence can be a whole new learning methodology for other cities to practise.

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This blog is a prologue to the Integral City webinar conference  City 2.0 Co-Creating the Future of the Human Hive . We are inventing a new operating system for the city.  Click to get more details re the Free Expo and eLaboratory membership  scheduled September 4-27  2012. You are invited to attend and participate.

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Earth Day: Let’s Celebrate Ecosphere Intelligence Arising in Planet’s Fortune100!!

Posted in Building - Structures, D. Strategic Intelligences, Navigating - IVSM, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 21, 2012 | 3 Comments »


Could it be that we are witnessing an inflection point in the global awareness and embrace of sustainability?

Sean Esborn-Hargens one of the leaders at the forefront of developing the whole field of Integral Ecology  engages the nested voices of Self, Other and the World in ways that are shifting the whole understanding of ecology. Like Brian Eddy who has mapped the Integral Ecological model of the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere and anthroposphere, Sean has been convening conversations with multiple ecological personas in complex cultural and systems environments.

While Sean and Brian are the natural children of the pioneers who opened the paths of the first Earth Day (42 years ago) what other evidence of ecospheric change can we notice on the eve of Rio+20?

Much to my astonishment I listened to CEO’s (and/or their consultants) of the Fortune 100 talk about their sustainability strategies at the Fortune Green Brainstorm earlier this week.

I heard that Coca Cola had invested $1 billion dollars in the mountain farmers of Tanzania so that they could steward the forests in the mountains to protect the hydrological cycle that produces the water that is 98% of the input for Coca Cola’s product.

I heard that Wal-Mart had changed its fleet of trucks to fuel-efficient hybrid 18 wheelers and was using bio-fuel from the cooking fats produced by their restaurants.

I heard that New York City had negotiated a $1 billion deal with the Catskill farmers to preserve the quality of its water sources – rather than spend $6 billion on a new water management plant.

What is happening out there? Is it possible that the Fortune 100 has discovered that when Mother Nature is no longer a ”free” resource, corporations start measuring success in more accountable and transparent ways? Are they realizing for corporate success if not survival they must quantify their external costs as internal costs in order to manage future risks throughout their supply chains? Are the supply chains being drawn into a collaboration not only with the F100 but with related Governments and Civil Society??? Could it be that the circle of care is actually widening because the economies of corporations, cities and nations are waking up to the sensitivity of ecosystems?

When Jared Diamond points out that China has lost 1/3 of its agricultural productivity by destroying its earthworms … and Pavan Sukhdev observes that the cost of manual pollination vs bee pollination is an impressive $7 billion a year (not to mention the $90+ billion value of the agricultural product dependent on it)… and Unilever announces that it is no longer working towards or reporting quarterly results because it is contrary to their commitment to long-term sustainability… I think we have to admit that something is happening.

Sukhdev says the process of changing attitudes to sustainability in corporations (and their leaders) happens through 4 stages:

  1. Discovery – wake up to the reality that Nature is not “free” but a responsibility of all
  2. Measurement/Quantification – include the costs that have been excluded as commons so we can avoid the tragedy of the commons
  3. Management/Disclosure - share the cost of using the commons and how much investment is required to replenish and restore it
  4. Adoption/Influence/Action – develop strategies, impact spheres of influence and take action that is aligned with sustainable practice

It is timely to observe, how these stages lead to activating the three principles for honouring the ecosphere of our cities and eco-regions, set out in Integral City: Meshworking Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive:

1. Honor the climate and geography of your city.

2. Steward the environment.

3. Add value to the earth space.

I think the F100 commitment to green change has created the first trickles of a multi-sector groundswell. My optimism is encouraged!! Happy Earth Day 2012!!

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This blog is a prologue to the Integral City webinar conference  City 2.0 Co-Creating the Future of the Human Hive . We are inventing a new operating system for the city.  Click to get more details re the Free Expo and eLaboratory membership  scheduled September 4-27  2012. You are invited to attend and participate.

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Integral City e-Learning: AN INVITATION TO SEPTEMBER 2012 E-LABORATORY

Posted in D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Inquiry, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged , , , , , , , , , on March 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »


Integral City eLaboratory: Co-Creating the Future of the Human Hive

“Humans are Gaia’s reflective organ.” James Lovelock

Now that 50% of humanity lives in the city – each person is like a cell in Gaia’s reflective organ. 

40 cities in the world produce 30% of its wealth … Gaia’s cities belong to a system of reflective organs.

It is time for the inhabitants of Gaia’s reflective organ system to create the conditions of prosperity that evolve themselves, the city and Gaia.

Geoffrey West says companies die, whereas cities persist. What is the secret of city persistence? Is it a good feature that supports human development and prosperity or is it an impediment that slows down evolution?

Integral City e-Laboratory convenes a series of web-based conversations with evolutionary practitioners, thought leaders, policy makers and citi-zens to explore the tensions, transactions and transformations that contribute to Integral City 2.0’s purpose, people, priorities and prosperity.

This webinar e-Laboratory convenes the brain trust with the intelligences to create Integral City 2.0.

Why is it critical to do this now? City life, challenged by global and local security, sustainability and resilience needs Leaders to work on the system, with the system, and as the system.  The city is home to more than 50% of humanity  and  its old operating system is fragmented by traditional reductionism, modern management and post-modern social safety nets. Integral City 2.0 deserves an integral operating system that is globally attuned but locally adapted.

City voices from citi-zens, civil society, civic management and conscious capital developers express worldviews at the ego-ethno-world-kosmo-centric stages of development. These dissonances create conflicts within and across the city silos of education, health, business, civil society and governance.

The e-Laboratory invites the voices of experts to share leading edge insights that align us ; meshes diverse thought leaders into transdisciplinary dialogues that engage us; enables policy makers to learn from transectoral conversation cafes that renew us ; and facilitates citi-zen response-ability that activates us.

This online e-Laboratory connects the many views and voices of the city. It opens the door for transdisciplinary  inquiry and action through the lenses of: evolution, large scale psychology, leadership, conscious capitalism,  sustainability, resilience, education, health care, community, civic governance, eco-regional ecology,  spirituality, city design, cultural change, women, generations, creativity and economics.

YOU ARE INVITED TO CONTRIBUTE YOUR BRILLIANCE AS WE INTEGRATE  ART, SCIENCE AND SPIRIT INTO A NEW OPERATING SYSTEM FOR INTEGRAL CITY 2.0.  For details and registration for the webinar click here.

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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 , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »


Today ’s cities are being transformed by activists. Tomorrow’s cities will be transformed by AQALists. What is the difference?

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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 into streets, doorways and jails. Emotions drive motion and defiant acts define active participation.

Activists break down barriers and open doors in places where human freedom has been suppressed. Their actions are necessary to release the energy of changing from what we no longer want. But activism of this type is not sufficient to change to what we do want.

Changing to what we do want requires contribution of an entirely different order. Activists must expand individual actions into creating and organizing collective systems that serve the greater good of all.  They must invite the civility of society to embrace relationships with cultures different from their own – including those with whom they disagree. Such tolerance requires leaders who can create the habitats for mutual respect and coexistence of different belief systems, expressions and practices – as long as they don’t infringe on the beliefs, expressions and practices of others. The new activists must also be willing to reflect on their actions, systems and relationships, becoming ever attentive to the never-ending quest of their own learning, spiritual depths and personal development.

Changing to what we do want demands that we add to the energy of action, the strength of structures, the goodness of relationships and the beauty of inner reflection. When we centre in the four quadrants of these capacities, and open the door to ongoing development and evolution of our individual and collective selves, we have taken the momentous leap (1) from mere Activism to AQALism(2) – able to be, do, have and relate in all quadrants and all levels of complexity. This momentous leap moves us from merely being able to take care of ourselves, to being able to integrate our care of each other and our care of Integral City 2.0 as necessary contributors to the evolution and wellbeing of Gaia.

Endnotes:

(1) Momentous Leap refers to the framing of Clare Graves in describing the developmental path of healthy human beings

Graves, C. (1974). Human Nature Prepares for a Momentous Leap The Futurist.

(2)AQAL is a term coined by Ken Wilber to embrace all quadrants, all levels, all lines, all types. For further explanation refer to

Wilber, K. (2007). The Integral Vision. Boston: Shambhala Publications Inc.

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Integral City 2.0 Develops Innovation Ecosystems

Posted in Building - Structures, city, D. Strategic Intelligences, Navigating - IVSM, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 7, 2012 | 1 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 City 2.0 in places that have developed a variety of innovative frameworks and practical approaches to optimizing human co-existence. If we could combine and align these emergent designs into innovation ecosystems, we would create a resilience strategy that would move our human hives from City 1.0 to City 2.0 in service to a healthy planet. Five cities on five continents lead the way.

1. Curitiba, Brazil demonstrates an ability to develop individual capacity and organizational capital through people-friendly transportation systems and re-valuing eco-citizens who collect cooking oil, tires and even fallen leaves.

2. Sydney, Australia has developed Sustainability and Resilience strategies through the Sustainable Sydney 2030 Vision  for a Green, Global, and Connected City. It identified 10 targets and  five big moves embracing the city centre, transportation network, green corridors, community hubs and energy and water infrastructure.

3. Metro Vancouver, Canada  leverages community engagement and dynamic decision making that coalesces authority, power and influence, at breakfast meetings with citizens across 21 municipalities. They are anchoring three imperatives: regard for both local and global consequences and long-term impacts of decisions; recognizing and reflecting the interconnectedness and interdependence of systems; and being collaborative.

4. Songpa, South Korea demonstrates the value of Context mapping that integrates Place, Priorities, People and Planet. It completely removed a major freeway that bisected the city and fully restored the river that now has become the ecological and cultural centre of its urban life.

5. Murcia, Spain applies navigational dashboards that monitor vital signs of wellbeing across all city systems. It integrates KSF’s across city initiatives and objectives with multiple stakeholders. These measures include everything from reduction of energy consumption to school use of photo-voltaics to citizen awareness, especially immigrants, women, seniors and students.

What these Integral Cities 2.0 are proving, is that we can create the life conditions for innovation that will become a legacy to future generations. When we co-create City 2.0 habitats for innovation eco-systems we discover that:

  • secure supply chains emerge in around the Integral City 2.0
  • risk is mitigated through shared values and proximate peers
  • we can retain and attract high-performers
  • we create opportunities for sustainable energy efficiencies as we learn how to competitively recycle energy and effort in our eco-region;
  • we can redefine value-added profitability not just for our organizations, but for the city, its eco-region and Gaia herself;
  • our actions inevitably enhance our brand reputations.

Multiple stakeholders acting together in Integral City 2.0 create innovation ecosystems that become self-fulfilling – where we naturally align leaders, strategies and governance systems to develop caring capacities for taking care of people, taking care of priorities and taking care of this planet.

Download Links, Resources, Connections for Integral City 2.0 Developers at: http://www.integralcity.com/developers/

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How Do We Design Healthcare Systems for Integral City 2.0?

Posted in city, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Lifecycle, Navigating - IVSM, Outer, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on January 31, 2012 | 1 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 healthcare systems include:

  • Aligning the purpose of healthcare systems with the vision and purpose of the city
  • Understanding how citizens define health – recognizing the multiple definitions that connect to food, energy, information and spirit
  • Integrating, educating and supporting a variety of healthcare modalities to match citizen preferences
  • Designing healthcare from a systems-thinking perspective for optimizing flex and flow of city and citi-zen resourcefulness
  • Understanding demographics of the city so healthcare design serves the lifecycles of the citi-zens
  • Embracing the wholistic realities of the bio-psycho-cultural-structural health needs of the city
  • Mapping existing health facilities and human resources to improve access and grow capacity to serve across the whole city
  • Considering the spectrum of cultural sub-populations and their specialized needs based on life practices
  • Benchmarking healthcare with vital signs monitors to track and improve wellbeing measures
  • Adapting healthcare to the life conditions of the city in all kinds of “change weather” – stable, troubled, turbulent or promising

Most of the major cities of the world are now melting pots of East and West. As such our healthcare systems can learn from the intelligences and wisdoms across the spectrum of major healthcare traditions. Wellbeing in the city demands that we pay attention to how we value and manage the patterns, processes and structures of our city as a living system – the human hive.

Reference

Hamilton, M. (2008). Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive. Gabriola Island BC: New Society Publishers. Chapter 6

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Education Creates Habitats for Learning What Works in City 2.0

Posted in D. Strategic Intelligences, Inner, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged , , , , , , , , 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 of beauty, wonder, excitement, inclusion, diversity, life? In short how do we learn to grow the city that works?

Integral City 2.0 knows education happens both informally and formally. Homo sapiens sapiens as a species conscious of its consciousness is a natural learning collective. Educations’ job in City 2.0 is to inquire on purpose – what makes our city work on purpose? How do we create learning capacity in, with and as citizens,  at the same time as we create learning capacity on, with and as a learning city of the planet?

City Education 2.0 embraces the cycle of life (as it emerges in individuals, in families, in cultures and neighbourhoods, the city as whole and its eco-region) to create a habitat for learning what works - as a never ending developmental journey for, with and as citizens of City 2.0.

The seeds for such an Integral Education System are emerging through the exploration of a community of learning practise. These pioneers have identified core practices for an Integral Education:

  • explore multiple perspectives – this means honouring multiple realities (as true but partial)
  • include multiple ways of learning – allow for the contributions of me, you, we and they
  • weave together the domains of self, culture and nature – respect the interconnection of people, place and planet
  • recognize the value of both critical thinking and the power of personal experience – honour logic and feeling
  • recognize learners and teachers both progress through developmental stages – create a habitat where they are aligned to take the next natural step that transforms them both
  • model and encourage personal practise – step out beyond the theory and “walk the talk” by experimenting, testing and coaching
  • embrace multiple intelligences - recognize the genius of relating as well as the genius of kinesthetics, art, math, music, spatiality ++++
  • take advantage of different types of learners and teachers – ensure learning is delivered with “different strokes for different folks”
  • don’t hide the shadows – but create the conditions for teachers and students to face and resolve dark histories, personal barriers and cultural trauma
  • honour differing approaches to education - invite in the strengths and accept the limits of traditional, wholistic, transformative, conventional and alternative approaches to learning

Read more about the history, approaches, case studies and future of Education Systems for Integral City 2.0 through the books Igniting Brilliance: Integral Education for the 21st Century and Integral Education: New Directions for Higher Learning.

References

Dea, W. (Ed.). (2010). Igniting Brilliance: Integral Education for the 21st Century. Tuscon, Arizona: Integral Publishers, LLC.

Esbjörn-Hargens, S., Reams, J., & Gunnlaugson (Eds.). (2010). Integral Education: New Directions for Higher Learning. Albany, NY: State University of New York.

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Integral Sustainable Design for City 2.0

Posted in Building - Structures, city, Integral Maps, tagged , , , , , , , on January 24, 2012 | 4 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 fact he has just written a book by that very title. DeKay speaks to the three audiences that an Integral City 2.0 design must attract.  Firstly he addresses the scholars of Integral Theory to explore the principles of Design. Secondly, he invokes the Sustainability stewards of City 2.0 to appreciate the fundamentals of wholism, living systems, systems thinking and ecology. Thirdly he calls forth the designers and students of design and architecture who will design the built City 2.0.

I had been waiting for Mark DeKay’s book for a long time before TED’s City 2.0 was announced. (In fact as author of Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive I wish that DeKay’s book had been published before my own was written.) Now I see DeKay’s book as a necessary guide for imagining and building Integral City 2.0.

The book’s four parts focus first on the Perspectives of Integral Design. The second looks at Levels of Complexity, exploring the developmental path of the Design view. The third examines Ecological Design Thinking with an insightful look at shift thinking from linear to non-linear perceptions. The fourth part explores the Relationship of Design to Nature from five developmental levels.

From the Integral Discourse a full text of my review of DeKay’s book is available in Journal of Integral Theory and Pratice, Volume 6, Issue 3.

From the Design Discourse, a new review by Lisa Norton in metropolismagazine has just expressed appreciation for DeKay’s mastery of a whole new paradigm applied to the field of architecture. Norton explains:  “we might say that every epoch has its architectural dignities as well as its architectural disasters, evolving and in turn transcending what proves un-resourceful, while incorporating what is valuable. DeKay’s book skillfully details precisely such developments and anticipates future possibilities for designers of habitus. His skillful choice of a range of contemporary and historical examples, drawn from every continent, elucidates what an integral approach to designing for sustainability might look like.”

With duly noted caution, Norton admits “until this book, no author had connected the dots from the still-emergent field of integral theory to design in such a way as to give clear instructions for its application, particularly to sustainable architectural practice. Integral Sustainable Design is a vivid map with examples, that offers possible reasons for why existing approaches to sustainable architecture do not reliably deliver the catalytic outcomes that one would expect given the overall promise of and excitement around whole systems design for architecture and urban studies. In fact, this book can be seen as a kind of explanation for the failure of sustainable design in general to really take root, thrive, and achieve that widely anticipated and catalytic social tipping point.” (Readers can read the full review here.)

That’s the Integral Sustainable Design tipping point that cities would need to evolve their built form into Integral City 2.0.

References

DeKay, M. (2011). Integral Sustainable Design: Transformative Perspectives. London, UK: Earthscan.

Hamilton, M. (2011). Integral Sustainable Design, Book Review Journal of Integral Theory and Practice, 6(3), 137-148. Retrieved from ttp://aqaljournal.integralinstitute.org/public/Issues.aspx

Hamilton, M. (2008). Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive. Gabriola Island BC: New Society Publishers.

Norton, L. (2012). Integral Sustainable Design, Book Review. metropolismag.com. Retrieved from http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20120113/integral-sustainable-design

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Integral City as City 2.0

Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, city, Integral Maps, Spiritual intelligence, tagged , , , , , on January 10, 2012 | 3 Comments »


What would Integral City contribute to TED’s City 2.0 prize?

City 2.0 is differentiated from City 1.0 primarily because it moves from being inward oriented to being outward oriented. City 1.0 cares for its residents (on good days) while Integral City 2.0 cares for the world by caring for its citizens and stewarding its place and space on behalf of Gaia.

Integral City 2.0 frames the city as Gaia’s Reflective Organ.  Integral City 2.0 has Gaia’s reflective capacity embedded in its 12 Integral City intelligences . Integral City’s 2.0 meta-intelligence reflects a trajectory of caring capacity (not just carrying capacity) that expands from self-care to other-care to caring for this place. The core of TED City 2.0 would pulse with the consciousness and spirit of Integral City’s reflective organ in service to Gaia’s organic wellbeing.

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