Inner intelligence is the "I" space of each citizen. At the scale of the individual I am (virtually) the city's mind from which emerges the city's cognitive, emotional and cultural capacities. This "I" is capable of reflection and learning - not just once - not just in a linear way - but through the many [...]
The Inner intelligences of the human condition relates to a person's subjective sense of wellbeing and happiness. The Subjective I is the psycho-emotional-spiritual way I experience the city. The Subjective I feels inspired and uplifted by the personal pleasure of walking down a street lined with cherry blooms, imagining the excitement of expressing ideas, with [...]
The Human Hive is powered by individuals. This is rather paradoxical because it is the collection of people that we tend to notice in the Human Hive. But the collective (or in terms of the Integral Model, the social holon) is composed of individual holons. Individual people are whole systems who power and empower the [...]
Integral Intelligence is a way of looking at the city that transcends and includes views of the city that are traditional (the city as home), modern (the city as economic engine), post-modern (the city as social safety net) and systemic (the city as living human system). Integral Intelligence at the city scale embraces all the [...]
The four quadrant perspectival map of reality (bio-psycho-cultural-social) can be shape-shifted into a nested holarchy of city holons. This scalar fractal map shows the relationship amongst the micro, meso and macro human systems at multiple levels of scale from the individual to the family/group, organization, sector, community, city, eco-region and the world. Integral intelligence looks at [...]
Integral Intelligence arises because the city, is a whole system, with multiple simultaneous realities that reflect - how people act, how people think, how people relate and how people create/produce. Integral Intelligences can be mapped into the four quadrants explored by the AQAL model developed by Ken Wilber. The four quadrants are a beautiful fractal [...]
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 [...]
Ecosphere intelligence is an awareness and capacity to respond to the realities of a city's climate and eco-region environment. Just as honey bees adapt themselves to different geographies, Integral Cities in different locations must adapt different solutions to the same infrastructure problems. Ecosphere intelligence is fundamental to our energy security, food security and water security. If we [...]
Are economics and technological factors sufficient to incubate innovation and sustainability? At least they are a start to consider the importance of cities to organizational success. That was a recent focus of Greenbiz forum where the growing recognition that the wellbeing of cities is an underlying condition for the success of organizations. Drawing from a [...]
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 [...]