19 05, 2022

Recovering Cities Through Living Cities Peace Room (4/4)

By |2022-05-19T14:26:06+00:00May 19th, 2022|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, Capacity Building, Caring, Complex Challenges, Contexting, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Emergence, Integral Maps, Master Intelligence, Peace|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Designing a Peace Room for Integral Cities of Peace Barbara Marx Hubbard used to imagine a Peace Room (instead of war room) where we could overview the emergence of Peace. Here is how Living Cities::Earth could develop a possible design. An energy field for recovering a broken City growing the potential for an Integral [...]

16 06, 2021

CAN’s, Competition, Coalitions, Collaborations

By |2021-06-16T11:31:15+00:00June 16th, 2021|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Emergence, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

As the world cycles in and out of lockdowns, pandemic levels and recovery stimuli, new webs are emerging through building, rebuilding, reconnecting and weaving systemic connections that seem to indicate a distinguishing impact of the global pandemic involves recalibrating worldwide interconnections. How does Gaia respond when fundamental boundaries are crossed that result in ill [...]

17 03, 2021

Integral City Map 3 Shows Gaia is an Ecological Holographer

By |2024-03-04T14:47:28+00:00March 17th, 2021|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, climate, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Lifecycle, Navigating - IVSM|Tags: , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Integral City Maps Restory Human Systems & Climate Change How do the 5 Maps used by Integral City make visible the wholeness of the human hive, when we consider Climate Change? Each of the maps gives us different perspectives to view the patterns of wholeness – through stories. (Moreover, the Integral City maps reveal [...]

17 12, 2020

Is Regenerativity an Evolutionary Pattern?

By |2021-07-13T13:14:53+00:00December 17th, 2020|Categories: Book 3, Capacity Building, Caring, Complex Challenges, Contexting, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Emergence, Lifecycle, Master Intelligence, Spiritual intelligence|Tags: , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Living systems are defined by 3 characteristics: They survive They connect with their environment They regenerate. So regenerativity is fundamental to a living system like a city. As living systems,  regeneration in the city can be seen through all 5 Maps of the City. Map 1 reveals regenerativity through the process of developmental [...]

11 12, 2020

How Can We Influence City Development in Creative Economy

By |2020-12-13T18:24:55+00:00December 11th, 2020|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, Capacity Building, Caring, Caring, Contexting, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Meshworking, Placecaring, Placemaking|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Interview with Marilyn Hamilton for Civic Forum of Regions of the 60th Parallel Interviewer: Lev Gordon, Co-Founder Living Cities Russia LG: How can a citizen influence city development? MH: I would start with considering that as citizens we should express gratitude for our cities. They are the most complex systems yet created by [...]

9 02, 2020

Integral City: Evolving Gaia’s Organs of Peace

By |2020-02-09T17:23:09+00:00February 9th, 2020|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, Capacity Building, Caring, Caring, Complex Challenges, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Master Intelligence, Peace, Placecaring, Placemaking, Spiritual intelligence|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Pyeongchang Peace Forum 2020 invited Marilyn Hamilton to speak at their Forum February 10, 2020. Unfortunately, because of travel restrictions related to the Novel Coronavirus Dr. Hamilton was not able to attend in person. However, she shares this Abstract of her presentation and sends her deepest Appreciation to the organizers, presenters and attendees. [...]

28 01, 2019

How Do Organizations Enliven the City?

By |2019-02-19T13:19:25+00:00January 28th, 2019|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, Integral Maps|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

This article was published in Enlivening Edge Magazine JANUARY 27, 2019  By Marilyn Hamilton for Enlivening Edge MagazineMany people ask me what city or cities are Integral Cities? My usual response is that Integral City is a framework or a model or a paradigm for understanding “city.”I see the city as a human system – [...]

18 09, 2018

Integral City Reflective Organ – September Equinox 2018: Wholing, Including, Emerging, Evolving

By |2018-09-23T12:05:56+00:00September 18th, 2018|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, Building - Structures, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Inquiry, Integral Maps, Master Intelligence, Meshworking, Newsletter, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

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 Place. It should be noted that, at the same time as this [Integral City 4 quadrant] framework has evolved, a number of other city specialists have [...]

18 09, 2017

Beyond Sustainable Development to Living Fully Alive

By |2017-09-18T18:01:52+00:00September 18th, 2017|Categories: Action, Book 2, Book 3, D. Strategic Intelligences, Designing Impact, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, H. Research, Inquiry, Integral Maps, Placecaring, Placemaking, Spirituality|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |4 Comments

As a radical optimist called to consider the purpose and value of the city, I have usually found the whole approach to sustainable development somewhat limiting (see previous article). The assumption which most inspires me about the city is one I learned from James Lovelock, author of the Gaia hypothesis.  Despite all the shortcomings [...]

2 06, 2017

From Holons to Social Holons in a Science of Integral Cities

By |2017-06-02T21:39:20+00:00June 2nd, 2017|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, Book 2, C. Collective Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Master Intelligence|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

18 years ago, I read Ken Wilber’s Sex, Ecology & Spirituality, which introduced me to the Integral model. This book changed my life. In the short term, it provided a unifying framework that enabled me to make sense of the data in my dissertation that was focused on: learning and leadership in self-organizing online [...]

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