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 [...]
The third Locator nests inside the Smart City and Resilient City Locators – it is the core intelligence chip that reflects the deepest intelligence of the Human Hive – the Integral City Locator. Essentially it offers “Integral Intel Inside”. Integral City GPS Compass Integral Locator This chip embeds the core intelligences that enable [...]
The second locator we look at we name the Resilient City Locator. It is like the Motherboard of our intelligence system – it is based on the natural systems we have inherited from Mother Earth. Integral City Contexting Locator (for Resilient Cities) The Resilient City Locator is all about locating our Human Hives in [...]
The biomimicry pattern of the Human Hive (aka city) draws on fractal patterns and systems in play in our global ecology and human species. Homo sapiens sapiens is supposedly the most advanced species of the vertebrates. We have developed four types of cities in our Human Hive line. Moreover we have also developed four [...]
The Human Hive has many lessons to learn from the honey beehive. Honeybee Hive Some years ago I was introduced to the biomimicry magic of the beehive and was fascinated to learn that apis mellifera - the honey bee - has figured out a system that enables Smart [...]
Are metaphors useful when real life intrudes on their original power as a pattern framer? Colony Collapse Disorder For instance (almost a decade ago) when I coined the term “Human Hive” as a metaphor for the living, evolutionary human system of the city, it predated many life events that have since occurred. Perhaps [...]
I am curious how many readers think of themselves as belonging to a Human Hive? Human Hive I wonder how many people reading this blog keep or have kept bees (or have seen beekeepers at work)? Or have a role that contributes to the wellbeing and functioning of the [...]