Integral City how do we relate to your constant changes and exchanges? Map 3 reveals the cycles that flow through and around your prolific eco-system. Integral City Map 3: The Scalar Fractal Relationship of Micro, Meso and Macro Human Systems In the city, as individuals we grow our capacities. When life conditions trigger [...]
Integral City how do I map thee? Let me count the ways ... starting with Map 1. Map 1: 4 quadrant 8 level map of the city When I started to explore the Integral framework for cities I was influenced both by the work of Ken Wilber and Don Beck's Spiral Dynamics model. [...]
Systems thinking is fundamental to understanding systems. So to understand systems, let's start with exploring, what are systems? (1) Systems are evolutionary structures. They are characterized by boundaries that contain system elements. Those elements have evolved across deep time, from the Big Bang until now. The basic evolutionary strata that we can point to on [...]
Y2K ... 911 ... Hurricane Sandy ... What do they have in common? How did each of these events trigger evolutionary intelligences? From the perspective of Integral City each of these events posed a global pain point that was/is matched by a glocal care response. Y2K was the computer software bug that threatened infrastructure communication [...]
Emergent Intelligence helps us not only see the city as a whole but to design it as a whole. This gives us a chance to tap into our human hive mind – a mind that transcends and includes our individual minds. This condition arises because each person is massively interdependent on a living collective system [...]
Could it be that we are witnessing an inflection point in the global awareness and embrace of sustainability? Sean Esborn-Hargens one of the leaders at the forefront of developing the whole field of Integral Ecology engages the nested voices of Self, Other and the World in ways that are shifting the whole understanding of ecology. Like [...]
Two years ago this blog suggested that Cuba offered a great case study for Cities Under Peak Oil conditions. Subsequent to that blog Jim Garrison interviewed me for Integral Life about my book Integral City. We talked about The New Cuban Revolution: how the fairly surprising case study of Havana, Cuba offered insights to the sustainability discussion. After the fall of [...]
Spring Equinox Greetings, Integral City-zens and Friends of Integral City Today's Integral City Sparkies for City Diversity Generators: What city in the world has developed a course of study and practise that enables a person to methodically progress from cradle to peak prformance at the defined levels of complexity that deliver leadership to the powers 1 through [...]
Integral City eLaboratory: Co-Creating the Future of the Human Hive “Humans are Gaia’s reflective organ.” James Lovelock Now that 50% of humanity lives in the city - each person is like a cell in Gaia’s reflective organ. 40 cities in the world produce 30% of its wealth … Gaia’s cities belong to a system of [...]
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 [...]