How Cityzens Occupy City Voice
At the ITC2013 Learning Lhabitat participants introduced themselves by name, Human HIve (aka city of residence) and the Voice(s) of the City they most often represent. Here is how the Cityzens...
View ArticleMeshworkers of the Year Award 2013 – Planning AS the City
Like community musical impresarios, Beth Sanders and Dnyanesh Deshpande are innovators in composing, scoring and conducting an Integral City 2.0 planning process for mature neighbourhood planning. In...
View ArticleImagine Abbotsford: Citizen Voice Grows Sustainable City Vision
The story of the Imagine Abbotsford Dialogues was well documented in the three years that this city visioning process unfolded (by the local community paper publishing nine special sections for each of...
View ArticleDeveloping Durant: Business Voice Catalyses All 4 Voices of the City
What happens when business leaders expand their skills in service to thriving that is greater than just the success of one organization? The Integral Community hopes and dreams that leaders will...
View ArticleEkurhuleni’s Future: Civic Managers Create Habitat for Wellbeing
An old African tale relates how to take care of the wellbeing of elephants. ((1) As told to me by Dr. Don Beck). It seems a herd of elephants became very sick. The villagers consulted with the big city...
View ArticleEncouraging the Heart of Leon: Civil Society Integrates 4 Voices
If you want to improve the carrying capacity of a city, then increase its caring capacity. That was the experience of the city of Leon, Mexico when its Citizens’ Observatory set out to connect many...
View ArticleRussia Behind the Double Veil: Using Integral Eyes to See Russia’s Cities
In May I visited Russia and was surprised to have my stereotypes of the country and the people overturned. Using Integral City eyes, helped me penetrate behind two polarizing veils – one defensive and...
View ArticleHow Might Reinventing Organizations Reinvent the City?
How might Integral City learn from an integrally informed re-frame of Reinventing Organizations? Frederic Laloux’s book of that title, examines the emergence of integral organizations (Teal in...
View ArticleOn-Purpose Organizations Seed On-Purpose Cities
Reinventing Organizations at the second tier rests on a core organizational process that is centered on Purpose. When organizations are seen as living entities within an evolutionary worldview, it is...
View ArticleOrganic Strategies Reinvent Integral Cities
Eleven organizations contributed to the research behind the book Reinventing Organizations, by author Frederic Laloux. If so few organizations passed the filter of Tier 2 qualifications will we have...
View ArticleIntegral City Celebrates World Cities Day
I am Integral City. I am a web of constant, connecting, mysteriously transformative conversations, manifesting the 12 City Intelligences,[i] amongst my 4 voices[ii] — citizens, government,...
View ArticleISO Fast Tracks Standard for City Quality of Life
International \Organization for Standards (ISO) has announced a new standard for quality of life in cities. In London, UK on November 17-18, 2014, ISO in conjunction the World Council on City Data...
View ArticleCities are Evolving Climate Story
Humans and the cities we have created are permanently locked into a never-ending learning cycle, to create ever more complex adaptations to protect increasingly more complex cities. In the Integral...
View ArticleMeshworkers of the Year Award 2014 – Team ARGO Creators of Russia’s First...
Building on the Russian translation of Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive Team ARGO team in Izhevsk, Russia created Russia’s first citizen initiated and produced urban...
View ArticleImagine Durant Harvests Thought Leader Insights
On April 17-19, 2015, Imagine Durant along with the Integral City team convened a dialogue where community thought leaders met to exchange and brainstorm possibilities for the future of Durant,...
View ArticlePope Francis Offers Blueprint for a Planet of Integral Cities
Pope Francis thinks as big as a Planet of Integral Cities. Pope Francis has gifted the world with a Kosmic view of the environment and the implications for climate change. He instructs the faithful...
View ArticleIntegral City Reflective Organ – June Solstice 2015 – Pope, Planet of...
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 People. International developer Gail...
View ArticleHuman Hive: Roles & Types
The biomimicry pattern of the Human Hive (aka city) draws on fractal patterns and systems in play in our global ecology and human species. Homo sapiens sapiens is supposedly the most advanced species...
View ArticleWhat Part of the Master Code is Not Working for the Human Hive?
Paris, San Bernardino, Brussels, Ferguson, Nice, Orlando, Dallas, Lahore, Baton Rouge, Istanbul. The world’s cities seem threatened from within and without. When Integral City sponsored the Online...
View ArticleListen Intently and Actively
This is one of series of blogs that are a retrospective reflection on Integral City Community of Practice’s experience in taking the In This Together (ITT) course on basic facilitation skills taught by...
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