City Day

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, [...]

11 09, 2016

City Day: Why Don’t We Celebrate the Most Complex Human System?

By Marilyn Hamilton|2017-04-07T02:57:18+00:00September 11th, 2016|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, city, D. Strategic Intelligences, Integral Maps, Meshworking, Storytelling - Cultures, Voices|Tags: 911, Barnett, Brussels, celebration of the city, City Day, culture, Delhi, Earth Day, emergence, Fifteenth Anniversary, Friedman, holons, integral city intelligences, Moscow, New York City, NYC, Orlando, Paris, Richard Register, San Bernardino, September 11|2 Comments

Celebration MIA On this fifteenth anniversary of both the infamy and redress of New York’s 9/11 World Trade Center attack, I look around the world at the many days we set aside as celebrations and I am struck by a major omission. We celebrate the planet with Earth Day. Most nations celebrate a Nation Day [...]