city celebration

16 09, 2016

Celebrating the City Has Evolutionary Impact

By Marilyn Hamilton|2017-04-07T02:57:18+00:00September 16th, 2016|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, city, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Integral Maps, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: appreciative inquiry, city celebration, City Day, city organ, Gaia's Reflective Organ|0 Comments

If we created City Day to celebrate our cities, this celebration would bring a focus to the value of the city to the majority of humans world-wide. It has the possibility of connecting silos, stovepipes and solitudes within the city. Regular city celebration would create a pattern of aligning diverse individual intentions to a celebratory purpose, [...]

15 09, 2016

City Organs on Parade

By Marilyn Hamilton|2017-04-07T02:57:18+00:00September 15th, 2016|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, city, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Emergence, Inner, Integral Maps, Outer, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: city body, city celebration, City Energy, City Faith Systmes, City Flow, City Heart, City Information, City Matter, City Mind, city parade, Gaia's Reflective Organ, Lovelock, Planet of Cities|1 Comment

Lovelock has proposed that humans are Gaia's reflective organ and I suggest that, in fact, individuals are cells in the cities who are the actual organs of a whole organ system now alive on Gaia. So with those thoughts in mind, perhaps we are at the seminal moment for us humans to consider not just how we have [...]