“Sure, you can interview me, but my work is not really related to the city.” That was a response I heard over and over again as I invited Thought Leaders, Designers and Practitioners to share their wisdom in the Integral City 2.0 Online Conference (IC2OC) last year (Hamilton & Sanders, (2012a, 2012b). I was continuously [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Principles for a Planet of Cities underlie the Intelligences that enable the generation of Capitals for the Human Hive. Principles for Planet of Cities I have written extensively about the Intelligences that are needed to consciously and conscientiously evolve any given city. Much of the literature on sustainability has addressed the Capitals of [...]
In the next series of blogs I'd like to point to core principles that could inform a Planet of Integral Cities. The first place I start is with Planet. Bucky Fuller called our Planet, Spaceship Earth. This draws my attention to the family of planets we belong to orbiting in our Solar System, within our [...]
Within the living human hive, spiritual communities have the special purview of being habitats that grow caring capacity and also create the conditions to reflect on caring. Spiritual Garden of Gaia's Reflective Organ They are purpose-gathered to bring people together for spiritual experience, awareness, caring, sharing and development. As such, I suggest that [...]
What is the equivalent for the Human Hive of producing 40 pounds of honey in the bee hive? That is the question that I have been inquiring into through the lenses of bio-psycho-cultural-social-mimicry. In the generative seed bed of my recent visit to San Francisco, glimpses of the ingredients for producing "Honey" in our Human [...]
It's an honour and privilege to celebrate the inauguration of HUB Oakland, on this Easter weekend (march 29, 2013). In Canada this Good Friday, is a statutory holiday. Here in California, today it will be remembered as the opening of something very special - the HUB will be generating energy that will wake up all of Oakland [...]