“People need stories more than food to stay alive.” (Barry Lopez) That observation has always been one of my favourite insights into the depths of human nature. When I review the epic voyage to 10 cities (BC Canada: Delta, Vancouver, Mission, Abbotsford; Scotland: Findhorn, Edinburgh; India: Auroville, Chennai, Agra, Delhi) in the last six [...]
Summer has become the season of city festivals, fora and conferences and in the last month Integral City has met the 4 Voices of the City attending a Festival, a Forum, and a Summit. In the mid-June Integral City returned to the WeMakethe.City Festival 2019 in Amsterdam. We gave a workshop in 2018 [...]
Allies of Evolution was the theme of Integral Europe Conference 2018. Integral City presented with a focus on Placecaring and Placemaking in the Human Hive. I We used our valuable time to build a bridge for the audience. We took them from a widely held misconception that cities are enemies of evolution to [...]
This newsletter is published quarterly using a cycle of perspectives on the Integral City viewed from: Planet, People, Place and Power. The theme of this issue is Power. The human hive has millions of stories of spiritual service – in many cities representing all the world’s religions. Once these diverse religious practices [...]
Monocities. Living Cities. Integrated City. I encountered all those associations and descriptions of city activity in my visit to Russia in November 2017. It was amazing to see the impact that Integral City´s frameworks, toolkits and books were having after my visit to Urbanfest in 2014 when Book 1 (Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for [...]