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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
An Integral City is a complex adaptive human system that concentrates habitat for humans like a bee hive does for bees. As a natural system it faces all the same issues, factors and challenges that affect the concentration of life anywhere: sustaining flows of information, matter and energy for the survival of human life. Serving [...]