Marilyn Hamilton's Blog, page 68

Meshwork City Research, Planning & Management

Meshworking intelligences contribute to research, planning and management in the city. Meshworkers and meshweavers can create the conditions for aligning purposes, priorities, people and planet.  They can engage individuals, groups and sectors as stakeholders from each of the integral quadrants and focus on issues and purposes (like Millennium Development Goals).  Meshworkers can help these stakeholders to “connect the dots” [...]

Incredible opportunity for students: Gai

Incredible opportunity for students: Gain training, network, tools, mentorship & funding to lead sustainability projects in Vancouver. Apply by August 20 @ http://bit.ly/NbED68 Filed under: city

Meshworks Are Fractal People Patterns

Because communities and cities are emergents and artefacts of human life, they are outcomes of the brains that have created them. The meshworks in them seem to be fractal patterns that emerge at all scales of human systems. We can better understand how cities work and evolve by recognizing that their communities reflect evolving capacities to [...]

Meshworks are Triggered by Dissonance

Meshworking intelligence creates a “meshwork” by weaving together the best of two operating systems — one that self-organizes, and one that replicates hierarchical structures. The resulting meshwork creates and aligns complex responsive structures and systems that flex and flow. Meshworking intelligences are triggered in the brain by dissonance (ie. constraints) in the environment. The brain’s capability of [...]

Meshworking is Triggered by Dissonance

Meshworking intelligence creates a “meshwork” by weaving together the best of two operating systems — one that self-organizes, and one that replicates hierarchical structures. The resulting meshwork creates and aligns complex responsive structures and systems that flex and flow. Meshworking intelligences are triggered in the brain by dissonance (ie. constraints) in the environment. The brain’s capability of [...]

What Makes a Good Question?

Effective and authentic inquiry is often a process that we need to relearn many times. What makes a good question?  The kinds of questions we want to ask for generative inquiry have the qualities of being: Personal (Tell us a time when you experience an emotional response to your neighbourhood?) Open (Start the question with What, [...]

Values-Based Inquiry Shows Many Answers to One Question

Inquiry is so much more productive for the wellbeing of the city, than prescriptions for health, because it opens the doors of innovation and generativity. For a truly vibrant city, each inquiry question reveals a whole system of values all of which must be healthy, in order for the whole city to be healthy. The [...]

Inquiry Reveals the Meta-Wisdom of the Human Hive

Inquiry intelligence asks key questions that reveal the meta-wisdom of the city. The questions are simple and can be addressed to both individuals and groups. What is important to you? What’s working in your life, family, community, school, health system, city? What’s not working in your life, family, community, school, health system, city? What is [...]

Structural Intelligence Impacts Energy for All

Structural Intelligences arise from the collective of living holons of which each of us is a part, as well as the structures and infrastructures our Human Hives create to sustain that life. These structures are now embodied in our economics, energy systems, communications technology, city public works, and social organizations. As such these structural intelligences [...]

Meshworking, essentially re-values & rec

Meshworking, essentially re-values & recalibrates hierarchies so they can support & leverage self-organizing processes. http://ow.ly/cCfG4 Filed under: city