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City-zen-tricity: 4 City Voices Occupy Learning Lhabitat at ITC2013

At the Integral Theory Conference 2013,  Integral city presented our (award-winning!!) paper and session on City‐Zen‐Tricity:
 A 
Fractal 
Non‐Local 
Leap
 Toward
 Kosmocentricity
 Taken
 with
 Integral
 Kosmopolitans
 on
 an
 Evolutionary
 Mission. Going beyond merely presenting the paper (see the Abstract below) Integral City Stewards, Marilyn Hamilton and Beth Sanders, with Alia Aurami … facilitated a Learning Lhabitat for participants to learn about the 4 Voices of […]

#storytellingintel Oakland’s Heart & Wo

#storytellingintel Oakland’s Heart & Wound & Soul @ FruitvaleStation BIG Opp to awaken her Spirit http://ow.ly/nnWOF Filed under: city

Meta Security in the Human Hive: ISSS 2013 Presentation

Meta security in the Human Hive – was the topic presented by Integral City to the International Society for Systems Sciences in Haiphong, Vietnam, July 16, 2013. The presentation looked at how integrally aligning sustainability responses to a  trajectory of evolutionary threats reveals the strata of intelligent capacities available to sustainability systems thinkers. Here is […]

Recapitulating Principles for Planet of Integral Cities

Let’s recap core blogs that explore the Principles that could guide a Planet of Integral Cities. Recently we explored the evolutionary context of the life-giving Principles of  Anthro-Bio-Cosmo emergence (thanks to Integral Geographer Dr. Brian Eddy). In a much earlier blog we introduced the Principles of Living Systems (developed by Evolutionary Biologist Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris) Then we […]

Principles Calibrated Up Complexity Spiral

Anthropic Principles for a Planet of Cities can be derived from an examination of the levels of complexity. These are nicely captured in the levels and colours of Spiral Dynamics integral. On reviewing this framing of Principles (which I first articulated in 2004) its seems that they address the Principles needed for Environment, Economy, Social […]

Principal Qualities of Principles for Planet of Cities

Principles for a Planet of Cities underlie the Intelligences that enable the generation of Capitals for the Human Hive. I have written extensively about the Intelligences that are needed to consciously and conscientiously evolve any given city.  Much of the literature on sustainability has addressed the Capitals of the Human Hive. The first three of […]

What is a Principle in Relation to Integral City Practice?

This exploration of core principles that can inform a Planet of Cities, needs to be unpacked in two ways so it is useful for our inquiry. First let’s define what a principle is and second let’s set the scope of what we will consider in this series of explorations. We start with the definition. Oxford Online […]

ABC’s Frame Core Principles for Planet of Integral Cities

In the next series of blogs I’d like to point to core principles that could inform a Planet of Integral Cities. The first place I start is with Planet. Bucky Fuller called our Planet, Spaceship Earth. This draws my attention to the family of planets we belong to orbiting in our Solar System, within our […]

How Can Spiritual Communities Serve the Evolution of the Human Hive?

Within the living human hive, spiritual communities have the special purview of being habitats that grow caring capacity and also create the conditions to reflect on caring. They are purpose-gathered to bring people together for spiritual experience, awareness, caring, sharing and development. As such, I suggest that spiritual communities are Evolution’s purpose-designed playgrounds, rehearsal halls […]

Learning Lhabitats: How to Start Small and Get Things Going?

We are starting a new set of Integral City learning (ad)ventures. We call them Learning Lhabitats. Learning Laboratories and Habitats are being designed for people who sense a new Integrator Role is emerging in cities. They know MUCH change is needed and MANY voices are clamouring for attention. Those concerns lead to key questions, city […]