Dear Earth, Dear Earth, let me tell you how I feel. You have given me such treasure. I love you so. The above refrain is a simple Taizé song that awakens my growing edges. Because it honours my relationship to the Earth that birthed all Life, including me, it opens my heart to [...]
Futures Lab Russia, July 2021, invited Integral City to imagine cities in 100 years. This series of blogs comprises the lecture that was offered by Marilyn Hamilton PhD, Founder of Integral Cities. Conclusions MH: Thank you Gaia. I can see that Integral City evolution for the next century starts with a commitment to [...]
Futures Lab Russia, July 2021, invited Integral City to imagine cities in 100 years. This series of blogs comprises the lecture that was offered by Marilyn Hamilton PhD, Founder of Integral Cities. MH: Can you give us some guidance for designing whole new cities? Designing New Cities Gaia: Keeping in mind the challenges [...]
Futures Lab Russia, July 2021, invited Integral City to imagine cities in 100 years. This series of blogs comprises the lecture that was offered by Marilyn Hamilton PhD, Founder of Integral Cities. Development Strategies Gaia Continues: Not surprisingly the roots of Gaia-centric designs for city wellbeing offer us a way of imagining the [...]
Futures Lab Russia, July 2021, invited Integral City to imagine cities in 100 years. This series of blogs comprises the lecture that was offered by Marilyn Hamilton PhD, Founder of Integral Cities. Table 1: Paradigms & Levels of Complexity (adapted from D. Beck with permission) MH: If things are this precarious, how can [...]
Futures Lab Russia, July 2021, invited Integral City to imagine cities in 100 years. This series of blogs comprises the lecture that was offered by Marilyn Hamilton PhD, Founder of Integral Cities. Nature Economy Gaia Continues: Along with these evolving population profiles, life conditions are also shifting in cities around the world, producing [...]
Futures Lab Russia, July 2021, invited Integral City to imagine cities in 100 years. This series of blogs comprises the lecture that was offered by Marilyn Hamilton PhD, Founder of Integral Cities. Figure 6: Demographic Profiles of Four Societies (Page & Johnson, 2011) Demographic Profiles Evolve As we are observing, people are not [...]
Futures Lab Russia, July 2021, invited Integral City to imagine cities in 100 years. This series of blogs comprises the lecture that was offered by Marilyn Hamilton PhD, Founder of Integral Cities. Figure 4: Human Systems to the Powers of 10 (McCaffrey et al) Powers of 10 Framework Gaia Continues: Mark McCaffrey has [...]
Futures Lab Russia, July 2021, invited Integral City to imagine cities in 100 years. This series of blogs comprises the lecture that was offered by Marilyn Hamilton PhD, Founder of Integral Cities. Figure 3: Human Population Growth Past & Future (Page & Johnson, 2011) Population Growth MH: Now I have a better idea [...]
Futures Lab Russia, July 2021, invited Integral City to imagine cities in 100 years. This series of blogs comprises the lecture that was offered by Marilyn Hamilton PhD, Founder of Integral Cities. Figure 1: Brief History of the Universe and World. Source (Eddy, 2005) Cities are Unequal: Cities are Diverse MH: I am [...]