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 [...]
Here is the Integral City 2013 Meta Blog. It connects Integral City Practitioners, Catalysts and Meshworkers to the Planet, Principles, Prosperity, Practise and Potentials that energized us in 2013. 15 Years of Integral City – A Brief History of the Basics (Meeting of the Minds Conference - Toronto, ON) Systems Thinking for Cities (Waterlution, Toronto, [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This exploration of core principles that can inform a Planet of Cities, needs to be unpacked in two ways so it is useful for our inquiry. First let's define what a principle is and second let's set the scope of what we will consider in this series of explorations. We start with the definition. Oxford Online [...]
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 [...]
For the first time in history, the women in the developed world are noticing that they have the power to tap into state stage wisdom. In an era where so much that is invisible technologically has been released in service to human survival and evolution, perhaps women are sensing a less threatening environment where their [...]