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 [...]
How is Integral City a Human Hive?
Posted in A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, tagged generativity, honey bees, human hive, integral, matter and energy, regional scale, sustainability, wellbeing, whole systems thinking on January 12, 2012 | 2 Comments »
An Integral City is a complex adaptive human system that concentrates habitat for humans like a bee hive does for bees. As a natural system it faces all the same issues, factors and challenges that affect the concentration of life anywhere: sustaining flows of information, matter and energy for the survival of human life. Serving [...]
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 [...]
Occupy the Voice of the Civic Manager
Posted in Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, city, tagged civic manager, economy, education, health, occupy, sustainability on December 12, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Who #occupies the Voice of the Civic Manager? When everyone else is speaking at #occupy city square, who’s ears are occupied by the Civic Manager’s words? The voice of the Civic Manager speaks for senior leaders in city hall, the healthcare system, the justice system, the school system, and the library system. The Civic Manager calls forth conditions for the Integral City to run effectively across [...]
Collective Shadow & TheoryU for Sustainability Leaders
Posted in B. Individual Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, Inner, Inquiry, Outer, Storytelling - Cultures, tagged change, shadow work, sustainability, Theory U on September 21, 2011 | 3 Comments »
How do you engage Collective Shadow? How do you design a process for sustainability leaders to address the shadow of self, of the group and of the planet? That was a question that we asked ourselves during the Embody Integral Sustainability inquiry during August 2011 at Venwoude, Netherlands. Behind our questions we found support from [...]
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 [...]
