The 4 Voices and Views of the Integral City
People in the Integral City speak through four archetypal voices. These voices resonate with the roles that contribute to the successful resilience strategies of other living species (most notably the honey bee). Each voice is vital to the life of the city and the life of each individual and group of people. Many of us speak through more than one voice – and becoming aware of the importance of each voice can help us appreciate the flow of energy and contribution we are making to the relationships of dynamic city life. The core city voices are-
The 12 Intelligences of the Integral City
An Integral City integrates qualities that create optimal conditions for human innovation and emergence and eco-regional resilience. The Master Code guides our intentions and interactions: To care for Self, Others, Places and Planet simultaneously. We have created a Global Positioning System (GPS) to track the 12 intelligences that align these capacities.
Ecosphere
Ecosphere intelligence is an awareness and capacity to respond to the realities of a city’s climate and ecoregion environment. More…
Emergent
Emergent intelligence looks at the city as a whole, through the lenses of, aliveness, survival, adaptiveness, regeneration, sustainability and emergence. More…
Living
Living intelligence relates to the aliveness of each citizen through each of its lifecycle stages and the aliveness of the city through its lifecycle stages. More…
Inner
Inner intelligence is ‘I’ space of the citizen the seat of intentional consciousness, attention, interior experience and lines of development. More…
Outer
Outer intelligence is the biological “It” space of the citizen — the space where the body acts and behaves. More…
Social
Social intelligence is the ‘its’ space of the city that gives us the capacity, to structure and systemize our environment. More…
Cultural
Cultural intelligence represents the ‘we’ life of the citythe relationships in the city which transcend boundaries that both contain and separate. More…
Meshworking
Meshworking intelligence attracts the best of two operating systems one that selforganizes, and the other that replicates hierarchal structures to align systems that flex and flow. More…
Navigating
Navigating intelligence monitors and discloses the wellbeing or general condition of the city. More…
Evolutionary
Evolutionary intelligence is the capacity to transcend and include the intelligences, we currently demonstrate, in order to allow new intelligences to emerge. More…
Integral City Books, Newsletters, Blogs
The frameworks and stories of Integral City are captured in core Resources like our Book Series, Newsletters and Blogs.
Our newest book is Urban Hub 20: Accelerating City Change in a VUCA World. Find out more in our Books Resource Section.
Book 1 Edition 2 is our newest addition to the Integral City Series. It updates the 12 Intelligences & Master Code with a Foreword by Elisabet Sahtouris. Book 2 is the Inquiry, Action & Impact Field Guide to Book 1. Book 3 reframes Complex Challenges in our VUCA world. Click here to listen to Podcasts of Introductions to all 3 books and Talking Books for Books 1 and 2. Click on the links below and find out more …
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Book 1 – Edition 2: Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive. With New Foreword by Elisabet Sahtouris. Outlines 5 Sets of Intelligences : Contexting, Individual, Collective, Strategic, Evolutionary. Acting together they create optimal conditions for human innovation and emergence and eco-regional resilience.
Book 2
Book 2: Integral City Inquiry & Action: Designing Impact for the Human Hive shares the field work designed to deliver and develop the 12 Intelligences described in Book 1. The first half explores Placecaring and the second half explores Placemaking.
Book 3
Book 3: Integral City 3.7: Reframing Complex Challenges for Gaia’s Human Hives engages many of the wicked problems and intractable conundrums all cities face. It applies and expands in multiple directions the 12 intelligences described in Book 1, and builds on the field work of Book 2. It explores three practices for designing a collective urban life that works for all life; namely, Caring, Contexting and Capacity Building.
Blogs & Newsletters
Integral City Blogs: Read regular postings from and about the Integral City Community of Practice. Click on Blogs in the Menu and find 10 years of archives. Use the Search box to find your topics of interest. Click on our Metablogs 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014 and 2013 to review an archive for the year.
Newsletters
Our quarterly Newsletter: Integral City Reflective Organ reflects cities as Gaia’s Reflective Organs, through the four lenses of Power, Planet, People and Place. Subscribe to it on the website below.
Blog Posts
Upcoming Events & Programs
Integral City offers a variety of scheduled and custom workshops, trainings and public programs to further the development of Integral City concepts and to nurture the growing community of Integral City practitioners, catalysts and meshworkers.
Click here to view our ONLINE & in-person 2020 and 2021 presentation schedule.
Beyond Smart Online: Integral City Practices, Tools & Maps
WebinarFor Practitioners
This online course, delivered in 3 x 120 minute sessions over 3 days, introduces “practitioners” to just the basics of the Integral City model. You will quickly learn the framework of practices, tools and maps that reveal the common patterns that impact the lives of individuals, organizations and communities within your city.
Beyond Resilient Online: Integral City Inquiry Action & Impact
WebinarFOR CATALYSTS
This course is delivered Wednesday afternoons for 2 hours, online over 12 weeks – Jan. 13 – March 31, 2021 (partnering with Ubiquity U). It is for “catalysts” to explore inquiry and action that inspires productive impact for reinventing today’s cities for the future. You will interact with the 4+1 Voices of the Integral City (Business, Local Government, Civil Society and Citizens, plus actors from other regional cities) to identify strategic possibilities.Beyond Complexity Online: Integral City Care Context & Capacity
WebinarFOR MESHWORKERS
This course is a series of half day online trainings – delivered over 3 weeks – 7 x 1/2 days. It is for “meshworkers” to imagine how to re-frame simplicity on the other side of complexity in the Integral City – or Human Hive. You will join graduates of prior training to build on the Integral City Practitioner and Catalyst competencies to apply new skills to a live case study.
Integral City Constellation
Integral City works with clients, wisdom circles, communities of practice, spheres of influence and constellations around the world. We’ve worked in all of the cities shown in the map below. Our clients include businesses, non-profit organizations, coalitions and task forces, as well as city and regional governmental organizations.
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