It’s all a question of story. That is how Brian and May Nattrass start their exploration of where we stand on the path of waking up to our new global realities and responsibilities. http://www.noramusu.com/event/nora-musu-storytellers-truth-told-exhibit/ The stories we tell ourselves are always rooted in time. They explain the past. They comment on the present. [...]
What does the US-China handshake on climate change mean for our Planet of Cities? When Eagle Shakes Hands with the Dragon On the one hand it should give them confidence that they are the seed beds of global change – for it is cities who took the initiative on the climate file. While [...]
Remembrance Day has traditionally commemorated human life lost in defense of our freedoms. We long for Peace. World Peace Flame, Palace of Peace, den Haag, NL But as our worlds have expanded the dimensions of space, time and moral influence, so too have we expanded the “reach” of peace. We have grown Traditional [...]
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. … When we consider the complexity of hierarchies and centers that make up a city, it is easy to see why cities represent the pinnacle of human [...]
Like community musical impresarios, Beth Sanders and Dnyanesh Deshpande are innovators in composing, scoring and conducting an Integral City 2.0 planning process for mature neighbourhood planning. In 2013 this civic meshworker (Beth) and city planner (Dnyanesh) guided the 4 Voices of Strathcona County, Alberta, through a planning process that inspired uncommon participation, intelligent engagement [...]
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 [...]
Integral City how do I create thee? Perhaps Map 2 can reveal how ... There are points of time, of distant memory, when the soul unites within the pattern of the universe. That union brings forth the understanding of life's harmony. So it should be within the [city] garden … Author Unknown [...]
Emergent Intelligence is the intelligence that drives resilience. This gives the city the qualities of aliveness: it not only survives, but it adapts and regenerates. This intelligence enables the city to emerge as the bio-psycho-cultural-social behaviors, intentions, relationships and systems of its citizens interact with the environment they co-create as well as the eco-regional environment [...]
Integral Cities in different locations must adapt differing solutions to the same infrastructure problems. We need to evolve our internal environments and design our external environments in ways that honour the ecosphere that we are inextricably a part of . Only by doing so can both individual and collective human life optimize the amazing diversity our DNA has gifted us [...]
Ecosphere intelligence is an awareness and capacity to respond to the realities of a city's climate and eco-region environment. Just as honey bees adapt themselves to different geographies, Integral Cities in different locations must adapt different solutions to the same infrastructure problems. Ecosphere intelligence is fundamental to our energy security, food security and water security. If we [...]