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 [...]
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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 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 Development Patterns Miss the Patterns of Development
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged community economic development, design, eco-region, economic development, integral city intelligences on December 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Cities can do nothing to promote economic development, according to Mario Polese. But are the development patterns he enumerates missing the patterns of development of human culture and consciousness? Polese traces the modern to post-modern fads that have influenced community economic development (CED) at the city scale from the 1960′s to early 2000′s: strategic industries, industrial complexes, [...]
Occupy the Voice of the City Developer @ 1%+
Posted in Building - Structures, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, tagged city voice, design, developers, economic risk, human hive, occupy, patterns systems, spiritual voices, sustainability on December 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Integral City Developers #occupy the positive 1% who generate diversity to overcome the blockages and barriers in city systems. They #occupy development opportunities grand enough to attract others but where the economic risk is designed to reward purpose, priority, profit, people and planet. Developers #occupy the Integral City Voice with visions, inspiring pictures and projects that call forth [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Integral Architecture for Human Hive
Posted in Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, Integral Maps, Level 7 Yellow, tagged architecture, design, education, integral on January 5, 2010 | Comments Off
In the Human Hive, we need truth, beauty and goodness to sustain our capacities and encourage creative impulses. It is not always easy to find them in cities designed from pre-modern, modern and post-modern design principles. Someone who is committed to changing that is Mark Dekay, Director of Graduate Studies, School of Architecture, University of [...]
Almere Principles as Intelligences
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Level 7 Yellow, tagged design, integral city intelligences, McDonough, Principles on December 19, 2009 | Comments Off
In October I visited Almere, NL and met City Planner Alex VanOost. He gifted me with the monograph of the Almere Principles, developed by Architect, William McDonough & Associates. The seven principles resonate strongly with Integral City’s 12 Intelligences: Cultivate Diversity (@ Emergence and Living Intelligence) Connect Place and Context (@ Collective Intelligences and Eco-Intelligence) Combine [...]
