How is Meeting of the Minds 2013 a Meeting of the Human Hive Mind? Meeting of the Minds 2013 While I am attending the conference this week I will be listening for all the Integral City Intelligences as they are expressed by the four voices of the city. Let me explain, how I [...]
Integral City Meshworks has accepted the invitation to attend the Meeting of the Minds (MotM) Conference in Toronto September 9-11, 2013. Meeting of the Minds 2013 MotM asked me to share some of the “strange” language Integral City Meshworks uses to talk about the city. So here is a Brief History of [...]
Civil Society has a new opportunity in the city. It was voiced a little tentatively at the ITC2013 Learning Lhabitat . Participants asked, " are we on the right track?" Civil Society: The New Integrator Voice of the City We have written, in an earlier blog about the new integrator voice open to a [...]
Civic Managers gained the most empathy from the other voices of the ITC2013 Learning Lhabitat . In the closing circle, Cityzens in particular, were heard to declare, "I never realized the role of Civic Manager was so challenging. I have a whole new respect for Civic Managers." Civic Managers Managing City Systems Here is [...]
Diversity Generators were in the majority at the ITC2013 Learning Lhabitat . When participants introduced themselves by name, Human HIve (aka city of residence) and the Voice(s) of the City we found we had more voices from City Builders, Business and Diversity Generation. This proved to be a great opportunity for this voice to demonstrate its versatility [...]
At the ITC2013 Learning Lhabitat participants introduced themselves by name, Human HIve (aka city of residence) and the Voice(s) of the City they most often represent. Cityzens Are Spirit of City Here is how the Cityzens described the voice of the City. They recognized that the Cityzen voice speaks from the Integral City's [...]
At the Integral Theory Conference 2013, Integral city presented our (award-winning!!) paper and session on City‐Zen‐Tricity: A Fractal Non‐Local Leap Toward Kosmocentricity Taken with Integral Kosmopolitans on an Evolutionary Mission. Learning Lhabitat Going beyond merely presenting the paper (see the Abstract below) Integral City Stewards, Marilyn Hamilton and Beth Sanders, with Alia Aurami ... facilitated a Learning Lhabitat for participants to learn about [...]
Meta security in the Human Hive - was the topic presented by Integral City to the International Society for Systems Sciences in Haiphong, Vietnam, July 16, 2013. The presentation looked at how integrally aligning sustainability responses to a trajectory of evolutionary threats reveals the strata of intelligent capacities available to sustainability systems thinkers. Here is [...]
Let's recap core blogs that explore the Principles that could guide a Planet of Integral Cities. Recently we explored the evolutionary context of the life-giving Principles of Anthro-Bio-Cosmo emergence (thanks to Integral Geographer Dr. Brian Eddy). In a much earlier blog we introduced the Principles of Living Systems (developed by Evolutionary Biologist Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris) Then we [...]
Anthropic Principles for a Planet of Cities can be derived from an examination of the levels of complexity. Spiral Dynamics Emergent Spiral These are nicely captured in the levels and colours of Spiral Dynamics integral. On reviewing this framing of Principles (which I first articulated in 2004) its seems that they address the [...]