The Integral City 2.0 embraces and develops human systems. It draws on the frameworks of complex human development of Ken Wilber, Don Beck, Clare Graves and Ervin Laszlo; living systems theory of James Grier Miller; ecological sustainability of William Rees and Mathis Wackernagel; resilience models of C.S. Holling et al; and bio-social-evolutionist dynamics of Jared Diamond [...]
Posts Tagged ‘meshwork’
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 [...]
Almere NL New Town Appreciates, Celebrates, Blossoms
Posted in C. Collective Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Inquiry, Integral Maps, Lifecycle, Storytelling - Cultures, Uncategorized, tagged Almere, appreciative inquiry, city, integral, integral city intelligences, meshwork, sustainability, whole systems thinking on April 18, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Last week Almere Netherlands was the location of my learning and the focus of my attention. Attending the fifth Centre for Human Emergence, NL, fifth Spiral Dynamics Integral Confab, Almere was featured in case studies to explore the city with Integral City related lenses. Almere was created as a New Town, 30 years ago, using [...]
Open Letter to 3 Women Imagineers of the Integral Age on 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day
Posted in E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Emergence, tagged evolution, human hive, integral city intelligences, International Women's Day, meshwork, sage, whole systems thinking, women on March 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This is An Open Letter to Three Women Imagineers of the Integral Age On The Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day Dear Drs. Hazel Henderson, Barbara Marx Hubbard and Jean Houston I claimed I was never a feminist in the 60’s or 70’s. That’s because I didn’t see myself as an activist [...]
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 [...]
One City: A Clash of Healths
Posted in Level 7 Yellow, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Uncategorized, tagged health, meshwork, wellbeing on January 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Further to my interview with Will Varey in Perth about emergence in the city (also see Blog) we talked about the dilemma that in one location we have multiple cities. Effectively each citizen carries around a unique mental model of the city and through the magic of self-organizing systems we negotiate this complex territory. The [...]
Resourceless or Resourceful: Megacities, Dinosaurs & Supercyles
Posted in Building - Structures, city, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, tagged China, Climate change, economy, human hive, meshwork, sustainability, World Economic Forum on January 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In yesterday’s National Post two stories intrigued me that ultimately relate to resources available to the Human Hive. They appeared without linkage to each other but they raised bridging questions for me. The first article was about a Super Human Hive – a megacity that China has plans for turning the Pearl River Delta into [...]
