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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘self-organizing system’
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 [...]
EVA Lanxmeer Lives Like a Human Hive
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Uncategorized, tagged Almere, ecovillage, EVA Lanxmeer, human hive, integral city intelligences, Principles, self-organizing system, sustainability on September 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
EVA Lanxmeer was a destination I was delighted to explore in August while I was in the Netherlands. I went there to visit Peter Merry, Founder of Centre for Human Emergence Netherlands and discover why he had moved to this eco-village. Peter and I walked around EVA Lanxmeer and I recorded his commentary – to [...]
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 [...]
Vegetable Grower Mid East’s Rosa Parks?
Posted in E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Emergence, tagged change, culture, development, Egypt, Middle East, resilience, self-organizing system, Tunisia on February 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Events in Egypt this last week show how the consciousness of people in the rural area that serves cities can ignite a whole culture. The amazing pictures of hundreds of thousands marching in Cairo and the Mubarak government’s progressive retreat in the face of the population’s fearless demands mark what the media call a “regime change”. [...]
Jane Jacobs & Robert Moses: Meshworkers of New York
Posted in Meshworking, tagged integral city intelligences, Jacobs, meshwork, Moses, myelin, myelniation, New York, resilience, self-organizing system on May 3, 2009 | Comments Off
I’ve been watching the series on New York produced by Ric Burns (released through PBS but available as a DVD). It is an impressive revelation of the city’s 400 years of history. Last week I watched the episode exploring the massive infrastructure creations of Robert Moses including his hundred of miles of turnpikes that decimated [...]
