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08, 2012
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08, 2012
Meshworks Are Fractal People Patterns
Because communities and cities are emergents and artefacts of human life, they are outcomes of the brains that have created them. The meshworks in them seem to be fractal patterns that emerge at all scales of human systems. We can better understand how cities work and evolve by recognizing that their communities reflect evolving capacities to [...]
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08, 2012
Meshworks are Triggered by Dissonance
Meshworking intelligence creates a "meshwork" by weaving together the best of two operating systems — one that self-organizes, and one that replicates hierarchical structures. The resulting meshwork creates and aligns complex responsive structures and systems that flex and flow. Meshworking intelligences are triggered in the brain by dissonance (ie. constraints) in the environment. The brain's capability of [...]
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08, 2012
What Makes a Good Question?
Effective and authentic inquiry is often a process that we need to relearn many times. What makes a good question? The kinds of questions we want to ask for generative inquiry have the qualities of being: Personal (Tell us a time when you experience an emotional response to your neighbourhood?) Open (Start the question with What, [...]
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08, 2012
Values-Based Inquiry Shows Many Answers to One Question
Inquiry is so much more productive for the wellbeing of the city, than prescriptions for health, because it opens the doors of innovation and generativity. For a truly vibrant city, each inquiry question reveals a whole system of values all of which must be healthy, in order for the whole city to be healthy. The [...]
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08, 2012
Inquiry Reveals the Meta-Wisdom of the Human Hive
Inquiry intelligence asks key questions that reveal the meta-wisdom of the city. The questions are simple and can be addressed to both individuals and groups. What is important to you? What's working in your life, family, community, school, health system, city? What's not working in your life, family, community, school, health system, city? What is [...]
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08, 2012
Structural Intelligence Impacts Energy for All
Structural Intelligences arise from the collective of living holons of which each of us is a part, as well as the structures and infrastructures our Human Hives create to sustain that life. These structures are now embodied in our economics, energy systems, communications technology, city public works, and social organizations. As such these structural intelligences [...]
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08, 2012
Meshworking, essentially re-values & rec
Meshworking, essentially re-values & recalibrates hierarchies so they can support & leverage self-organizing processes. http://ow.ly/cCfG4
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08, 2012
Structural Intelligence Depends on Planet Carrying Capacity
The essential structural and infrastructural systems of the city exist to support the direct and indirect survival of its citizen bodies, relationships and exchanges. Even as cities become increasingly adept at creating built solutions to meet human demands, they seem to be disconnecting from the ultimate infrastructure on which their systems depend – namely [...]
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07, 2012
Structural Intelligence Supports Fulness of Humanity
Structural (or building) intelligence represents the “ Its” space of the human hive. This intelligence connects us to the time-space realities of the city, that we see, feel, hear, smell, touch and taste. It gives us the capacity to structure and systematize our environment to sustain our complex adaptive life systems. City structures are made [...]