Integral City Meshworks has accepted the invitation to attend the Meeting of the Minds (MotM) Conference in Toronto September 9-11, 2013. Meeting of the Minds 2013 MotM asked me to share some of the “strange” language Integral City Meshworks uses to talk about the city. So here is a Brief History of [...]
This blog is a first prologue for a keynote at the FreshOutlook Feb. 27, 2012 Building SustainABLE Communities Conference. Meshworking is an intelligence of the human hive (Hamilton, 2008) that creates a "meshwork" by weaving together the best of two operating systems — one that self-organizes, and one that replicates hierarchical structures. From an Integral City perspective this [...]
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen If City 2.0 is to support more life-giving options for behaviours, intentions, cultures and systems, City Economics 2.0 will have to emerge as an integral part of the whole. A pessimist would say we have been witnessing the disintegration of the old economy in [...]