I want to love the city as my self. I want to care for the city – not just take her for granted. I want to observe and think and feel and want for the city, as if she were a living person – because she is an extension of me and all the people [...]
Today 's cities are being transformed by activists. Tomorrow's cities will be transformed by AQALists. What is the difference? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Today's activists demonstrate their beliefs through confrontive action. They stand up against injustices, rules, authorities and infrastructure by blocking access for as many people as possible. They are willing to threaten power, throw projectiles and thrust their bodies [...]
Integral City 2.0 innovation systems are emerging because conscious capitalists, governments, students and citizens are aligning strategies for leaders, organizations and governance systems to transform entire cities from resistant holdouts to resilient human hives. Humans as Gaia’s most "reflective organ" have located 50% of our species' brain trust in the world’s cities. We are starting to see the shape of Integral [...]
Civil Society 2.0 has new power because it is integrating new relationships and a Manifesto for Evolutionary Freedom with social media 2.0. This is creating new resonance and coherence for glocal wellbeing, social justice and environmental sustainability in the human hive. The song sheet that Civil Society is co-creating is quickly emerging new music for all of us in the Integral City [...]
Designing healthcare systems that serve the wellbeing of Integral City 2.0 begins with remembering "health" comes from the same root as the word "whole". Healthcare in the human hive is based on the principles of Life and Evolution . Wholistic healthcare systems are rooted in natural science and embody values and cultural intentions. Principles that contribute to appropriate [...]
How do we create an education system for the City 2.0 that the TED Prize 2012 imagines? How can we learn to integrate education with innovation, culture, and economic opportunity? When might we agree to reduce the carbon footprint of City 2.0 occupants, facilitate smaller families, and ease the environmental pressure on the world’s rural areas? What will inspire us to create a place [...]
How would we approach the built design for Integral City 2.0? Could we find a designer with the depths of consciousness, design repertoire, cultural acuity and systemic prowess to imagine Integral City 2.0 designs? I propose a likely candidate would be Architect, Mark DeKay to lead us with the wisdom of Integral Sustainable Design. In [...]
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen If City 2.0 is to support more life-giving options for behaviours, intentions, cultures and systems, City Economics 2.0 will have to emerge as an integral part of the whole. A pessimist would say we have been witnessing the disintegration of the old economy in [...]
New research shows the power of the web to spread diversity and infect conformity by the provocation of weak signals. Farhad Manjoo from Slate reconsiders his(?) book True Enough's proposition that the web was narrowing networkers' worlds to the news/info selections that they chose. Now Facebook has released a study with an interesting design (based on millions [...]
Integral City has blasted into outer space! Or at least sub-orbital flight. Teaming up with astronaut, Dr. Mindy Howard, we are contributing to the Next Generation Sub-orbital Research Conference (Feb 27-29 Palo Alto). Check out Mindy and team's itinerary for blast off under Flight Training Peak Experience: Optimizing the Conditions of Inner Space for Outer Space. This is a [...]