Integral City nominates Paris as City of the Year 2015. Paris is the city featured on the cover of the Integral City book. Integral City :Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive The City of the Year is a new – but natural award for us to make. We have recognized the importance of [...]
Is it amazing that 195 nations were able to draft an agreement for Climate Change in Paris last week? Euphoria, celebrations and emotional highs marked the conclusion of the gathering. COP21 had been a long time coming with holdouts, recriminations and resistances marking its predecessor gatherings and the planning for this event. But I wonder [...]
I have been mesmerized into muteness regarding Paris since the November 13 attacks. Je Suis Paris A strange sensation like holding my breath has overtaken me – a kind of numbness and muteness. Writing has happened only in my head – and even then without much coherence. Funny, since I was impelled to [...]
In September 2015 the Centre for Human Emergence Netherlands explored with me a proposition: The politics of fear can be trumped by the politics of dignity, regarding refugees, immigrants and voters. We explored this question (drawn from Angela Merkel’s challenge to Europe in the face of the tide of refugees) using Systemic Constellation Work (SCW). [...]
This newsletter is published quarterly using a cycle of perspectives on the Integral City viewed from: Planet, People, Place and Power. The theme of this issue is Place. Just as honeybees adapt themselves to different geographies, human settlements must adapt different solutions to the same infrastructure problems. Each location provides a unique combination of matter, [...]
One autumn weekend, I joined some friends hiking up Sumas Mountain when skies were clear, air was crisp and the view went on forever. Abbotsford Looking North to Coast Mountains We took binoculars with us so that we could zoom in from the heights above, on life below. As we gazed over the [...]
When we place all the locators of our GPS compass in the service of our cities, we have the very real opportunity of re-calibrating our intentions, expectations and outcomes for cities. Working together as 4 Voices of the City, we have the intelligence to go beyond the Smart City beloved of Civic Managers and Citizens, [...]
If we are willing to consider the city as the human hive, then how would we locate the four internal roles and one external role that enable its survival and ability to thrive? Integral City GPS Locator CompassLocating Smart – Strategy Locator: Inquiry, Navigating, MeshworkingLocating Resilient – Context Locator: Eco, Emergent, Living … IntegralLocating Integral [...]
The first GPS locator we look at we could call the Smart City Locator. It tracks the logic of cities using Logic Models – based on Strategic Rational thinking. It depends on scientific and methodical Inquiry – Research and Development in other words. Smart City Locator It collects BIG DATA. It uses the [...]
All cities of any size draw on energy sources to power functions. Smart Cities and Resilient Cities source their energy externally. Evolutionary Power Source To build Smart Cities we drew on fossil fuels. To develop Resilient Cities we are drawing on renewable energy. To energize Integral Cities we tap into the energy at [...]