This blog is the fourth prologue for a keynote at the FreshOutlook Feb. 27, 2012 Building SustainABLE Communities Conference. An Integral City is a complex adaptive human system that concentrates habitat for humans like a bee hive does for bees. Let me tell you about why I am attracted to the story of the human [...]
This blog is the third prologue for a keynote at the FreshOutlook Feb. 27, 2012 Building SustainABLE Communities Conference. Integral City is a new paradigm for looking at cities that reveals its bio-psycho-cultural-structural evolutionary intelligences. These twelve intelligences cluster into five capacities and are organized into an Integral City Compass that provides direction and alignment [...]
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 [...]
What has the front page image of the woman in the Blue Bra in Tahrir Square got to do with the opening of the movie re-make of the "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"? The Blue Bra speaks of women's vulnerable defiance in the real world. The Dragon Tattoo's owner, Lisbeth Salander acts with assertive defiance in the fictional world. Both [...]
What patterns are showing up in my world? was the catalytic conversation I had today with my tribe from Centre for Human Emergence (CHE) Canada. It's Fall here in the Pacific north-west. The wind blew off all the leaves from the acer tree outside my window, exposing trembling dry maple pods. What a change from just a week ago when [...]
Indicators of wellbeing have been a fascination of mine for many decades. Today I am contemplating the indicator of happiness - as in "Could I die happy today?" The EU calls and I have my powerpoint bags packed with all the trends that show the Big Picture of Global Sustainability to share with Experience Integral [...]
June Solstice Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City Today's Integral City Sparkie for the City Body : Cultural cohesion can be measured through metrics tracking energetic noise and resonance. Hamilton, M., 2008, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive, p.299 The generational wave is a supra-wave of human life patterns that embraces many of [...]
P 1. Ecosphere Intelligence 1. Honor the climate and geography of your city. 2. Steward the environment. 3. Add value to the Earth space. P 2. Emerging Intelligence 1. Survive so holons serve each other’s existence. 2. Adapt to the environment. 3. Create a self-regenerating feedback loop, by interconnecting human regeneration cycles so that they [...]
Last week Almere Netherlands was the location of my learning and the focus of my attention. Attending the fifth Centre for Human Emergence, NL, fifth Spiral Dynamics Integral Confab, Almere was featured in case studies to explore the city with Integral City related lenses. Almere was created as a New Town, 30 years ago, using [...]
How do you integrate five of the resilience models that I have used in Integral City? How can they help us understand how to respond, repair and restore the city as a living system in disasters like we have seen this year in Brisbane, Christchurch and Sendai? Integral City(p. 43) illustrates the four stages of the resilience cycle as they progress through [...]