Urban hub15 : Dancing with the Future - Thriveable Cities

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Integral UrbanHub
Dancing with the Future
Thriveable Cities
a meta-pragmatic approach
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Urban Hub
Dancing with the Future
Thriveable Cities
integralMENTORS
Paul van Schaik
Curator & Creator
Integral UrbanHub
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"All this requires a significant reality check, and a sense of humbleness
about what each actor can achieve’. However, we should be hopeful and
accept that because ‘we only have influence (and not control) over
development processes, we must not lose our courage and ambition.
The fact that the large-scale, long-term change that is required cannot
be planned in advance, or achieved based on any one actor’s goals and
intentions, is not a reason to give up the drive for change.
Lessons from the concept of self-organization in complex systems show
us the power for change within systems of heterogeneous and
connected agents. The role that mindsets, feedback, leadership and
sense-makers have in shaping the behaviour and interactions of
interacting agents shows the true potential for change.”
Harry Jones, co-author of a recent ODI paper on complexity

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Before modern man can gain control over the
forces that now threaten his very existence, he must
resume possession of himself.
This sets the chief mission for the city of the future:
that of creating a visible regional and civic
structure, designed to make man at home with his
deeper self and his larger world, attached to
images of human nature and love.
Lewis Mumford, writer

Dance with the future
“...the integral vision will come upon you slowly, but surely,
carefully but fiercely, deliberately but radiantly, so that you
and I will find ourselves sharing in the same circle of
understanding, .... dancing in the freedom of the whole,
expressed in all its parts.”
Ken Wilber

Content
Introduction
The Good City
Making The Change
A Broader View
Evaluation
Books

The integral approach reveals the interior side of life
The integral approach weaves together the internal and external components of
reality. Alongside an understanding of the nature and complexity of interconnected
systems, there is also recognition of interior dynamics (psychological, cultural and
spiritual) in the system.
An integral approach, therefore, retains the existing practices that focus on the
"exterior" components of life, such as biological systems, economic initiatives, social
organizing, governance and sustainability, and also works with the interior
components, such as worldviews, values, and awareness.
These interior parts of society inform our opinions and decision-making, essentially
guiding the ways we make meaning of our surroundings and interactions.
With an understanding of interiority, it becomes easier to identify the underlying
values, needs, worldviews and motivations that arise when engaged in the work of
social change.
This enables a more effective working dynamic between and among individuals and
communities, as well as more psychologically sophisticated way of collaborating
with colleagues, staff, employees and project coordinators.
Integral Without Borders

“A city is more than a
place in space, it is a
drama in time”
Patrick Geddes

No longer are cities defined by a single slowly evolving Worldview as they have
tended to be up until the failure of both modern and postmodern Worldviews, to
provide fair, equitable and resilient cities for all.
Current trends in sustainable or smart cities have proven insufficient to
encompass and include the degree of complex thinking needed. A complexity
that defies individual or expert group planning.
A complexity that needs to involve us all in the development of self-organising
evolving cities which allow us to define who we are and what we want from our
co-created urban environment.
A city capable of holding various different cultures and Worldviews that can be
technically resilient and can be socially relevant and culturally inclusive for all its
citizens.
These workshops are part of the evolving process that defines the actions we all
need to be involved in if our cities are to be places we love to be a part of.
UrbanHub : Thriveable Cities

Ambiguous
You can easily find convincing but totally contradictory information for any
assertion. Because of complexity and unpredictability the ubiquitous
availability of information has created a mist in which it becomes
increasingly difficult to find clarity.
V
U
C
A
Volatile
Things change continuously. What is true today isn’t true tomorrow. Even
the nature and dynamics of change change.
Uncertain
More than ever, we live with a lack of predictability and a prospect for
surprise. It is impossible to predict how projects will evolve..
Complex
Simple cause-and-effect chains have been replaced by complex
interconnected forces and events. Interconnectedness makes all things
increasingly complex.

all actions will have
unintended consequences
Thus

“In finding the world as we do, we forget all we did to find it as
such, and when we are reminded of it in retracing our steps back
to indicators, we find little more than a mirror-to-mirror image of
ourselves and the world. In contrast with what is commonly
assumed, a description, when carefully inspected, reveals the
properties of the observer. We observers, distinguish ourselves
precisely by distinguishing what we apparently are not, the
world."
Spencer Brown

Albert Einstein: A problem cannot be solved at the same level of
consciousness as created it.
Alan Watts: We didn’t come into this world. We came out of it, like a
wave from the ocean. We are not strangers here.
Buckminster Fuller: The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
The first and most fundamental point to grasp when contemplating architecture’s
future is that the waning era of modernity was not the beginning of something new;
instead it was the terminal climax of an ancient trend. Not recognising this inhibits
progress to sustainability, the challenge of our future. Moreover, some assumed
heralds of the future – sculptural icons, parametricist blobs, sleek minimalism,
technological fetishism and so on – are no such thing. They are regressive sunset
effects, exaggerated caricatures of pathological aspects of modern architecture, so
merely mark its demise.
Understanding all this requires a Big Picture perspective, spatially and temporarily, an
ecological and evolutionary view of everything as intricately interconnected within a
dynamic of ongoing unfoldment. This reveals us as at a particularly significant pivot in
human history. Nature evolved us as initially very vulnerable, but blessed with creative
intelligence and advanced communicative capacities. Survival depended on using
these to defend and distance us from peril through collaboration and technology -
controlling fire, creating shelter, weapons and so on - the germinal beginnings of our
evolving cultures and design skills. So began the Story of Separation1, the progressive
distancing from and denial of our dependencies on nature, and eventually of much
else in the world around including other people.
Yet for most of human history we lived as nomadic hunter-gatherers in intimate and
reverential contact with nature. The whole world was our living home. But settlement
and agriculture initiated pivotal and progressive change as we wrested a bounded
home from a nature now seen as ‘other’, if not hostile. Urbanism took separation
further, most obviously with the walled city, but also in social stratification and
specialised employment. The many forms of progressive separation reached a new
extreme with modernity, including in our technological prowess-fuelled hubristic
denial of our myriad dependencies and interdependencies on nature and each other.
People do not perceive worlds but enact them. Different mindsets bring forth different worlds.
The Good City
Architecture and the City in the Emergent Era Peter Buchanan

Our once-living world became the dead mechanical universe of Newton from which
we were side-lined. This shrivelled reality sparked counter reactions – stream-of-
consciousness literature, psychoanalysis and so on - but still underlies modern culture
and most people’s world view. Elevating the objective as true reality inevitably led to a
world fragmented into isolated objects, as with the formally mute freestanding
buildings of the modern city. Hence our ruptured cities, communities and psyches -
and the deadening severance of our empathic and sensual connections with the world.
The correlated devaluing of the subjective, and so culture too, erased the rich world of
meaning and spirit, sensual and empathic connection, a sense of place in and of
belonging to the world.
The Enlightenment had further intensified these, and other modes of disconnect and
denial. In justifying industrialisation and colonialism it saw nature and people as mere
resources for exploitation by extractive technologies with negative impacts dismissed
as externalities. So unsustainability is no mere by-product of modernity but its
inevitable outcome that history will judge as a defining characteristic. Hence modern
and purely objective means of current approaches to green design – science,
technology and ecology – cannot, useful as they are, alone deliver sustainability.
Amongst other things, achieving this requires conferring a broad sense of satisfaction,
of lives well-lived in a beneficial engagement with the world. The current pervasive
rage behind populist political movements, Brexit and Trump is fuelled by a sense of
betrayal by modernity and its supposed egalitarian ethos, that many of its potential
benefits have been hijacked by a minority, leaving the majority marginalised. l
Besides downsides, modernity brought great, if unevenly distributed, gifts in such
things as material wealth, healthcare and so on, and not least in prodigious
knowledge: hard physical sciences and technology; human sciences such as
psychology and anthropology; and in strategies of social and personal change
necessary to facilitate the shift to sustainability. But this is all segregated into separate
silos so limiting its application to the urgent and systemically interlinked problems we
face. To address these we must transcend modernity and even reverse Separation’s
millennia-old trajectory. Instead we need a more integrative and inspiring approach
synthesising all forms of knowledge – subjective and objective, spiritual and scientific
and so on. This would emphasise not just constraints (cutting consumption, emissions
etc.) but huge qualitative leaps in satisfaction, physical and mental health and so on
that would bring its enthusiastic embrace.
Diagram derived from Richard Tarnas “Cosmos and Psyche”
Compare with Tony Fry “Becoming Human by Design”. For tens of
millennia we lived as
Nomads with the world as our home. Then we settled and created a
home within the world.
But modernity created the psycho-cultural condition of homelessness
(as well as leaving
many homeless) which now threatens to leave all of us homeless,
with neither places we feel at home nor our planetary home.
Psycho-cultural malaise
The Good City

Modernity begins with the Renaissance and the emergence of science; underpinning
both is a core notion of an objective reality independent of us, a reality fully
understood by detached observation, measurement and reductive rationalism.
Hence we are at a pivotal threshold of human evolution that, by the synergistic
application of the expertise modernity bequeaths us, will now be shaped by conscious
choice not random chance – or the imperatives of the market and technological
innovation. Inspiring us instead will be a fresh and more complete vision, drawing on
the best of contemporary understandings, of what it is to be fully human, unfolding
into full potential in harmonious and benevolent interaction with others, the planet
and all its life forms. Architecture that facilitates this must go beyond repairing the
ravages wrought by modernity or merely limiting further negative impacts, as with
most current green architecture. Besides regenerating nature and revivifying the world
in every way, physically and culturally, it will transcend and even invert many
characteristics of modern architecture. Its concerns, for instance, will shift from:
shaping freestanding objects to weaving urban fabric; objective function to the many
subjective dimensions of dwelling; abstract forms that relate neither to us, physically
or psychically, to those with which we can engage and empathise; the distancing sense
of vision (how buildings look) to how buildings make you feel, sensually and
emotionally.
Architecture will evolve from focussing on individual buildings and objective issues to
becoming an art of reweaving multiple webs of relationship of all sorts, in both the
physical and social worlds and the subjective ones of culture and psychology. We will
enter a new cultural phase, not as all conquering humanity, as is typical of newly
emergent species entering an eco-niche, but as mature Earthlings living in benevolent
and reverential reciprocity with the rest of creation. Recognising we are part of nature
and belong here, our architecture will neither timidly submerge itself in nature nor
minimise its impacts by hovering above it, two approaches currently assumed to be
green. Instead, confident we belong here our buildings will once again be fully fledged
cultural artefacts, not mere functional gadgets, weaving a dialogue with the natural
world that nourishes us physically and psychologically. Endorsing all these changes will
be the shift from living in modernity’s mechanical universe – the meaningless of which
leads to the defensive walling of oneself off with consumer goodies and addictive
behaviour – to contemporary science’s vision of a living, evolving universe that
encourages us to disencumber and participate in the world.
Traditional city of
BEING, of continuity,
Modern city of DOING,
of discontinuities
versus
The Good City

This changed relationship with the world will reshape our cities. Elsewhere I have
contrasted what I called the City of Being with the City of Doing. The former is the
premodern, traditional city of contiguous fabric and experience, of buildings of
material and symbolic presence shaping the public realm and where you were the
same person wherever you were and known in your entirety by your neighbours and
fellow citizens. But the modern City of Doing2 is that of discontinuous fabric and
experience, of freestanding buildings where you play differing roles in different places
– parent at home, boss or employee at work and so on – and nobody fully knows you.
But as you only know yourself to degree you are known by others, it is also a machine
for avoiding self-knowledge and maturity, and so also of a feeling of responsibility for
the larger worlds of nature and the planet.
The comforting City of Being is also that of belonging, of slow change and relative
stability. By contrast the City of Doing, in which you feel exposed and unengaged by
the mutely abstract buildings, is that of alienation and anxiety, loneliness and
addiction, but also dynamism. Of necessity, if we are to approach sustainability, we
now face a time when we must accelerate socio-cultural evolution and marry the
reassuring sense of belonging of the City of Being with the restless dynamism of the
City of Doing. This will be the City of Becoming, of buildings in dialogue with us and
each other as they shape a richly articulated public realm that, like the architecture, is
devised to suggest and stretch us into the expanded potential we know we possess.
Such a city celebrates a diversity of cultures and serves people at all ages and stages of
their lives to be a city of many things to do and multiple ways of being and relating
with each other, with our own physical and psychic selves, with nature and even the
cosmos – a place to take the exciting next step in our continuing evolution.
A theme in many later writings, I first articulated this contrast in From Doing to Being:
cultural buildings and the city in the Conceptual Age, The Architectural Review,
October 2006
1. Eisenstein, Charles, The Ascent of Humanity, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, 2013
2. A theme in many later writings, I first articulated this contrast in From Doing to Being: cultural
buildings and the city in the Conceptual Age, The Architectural Review, October 2006
Copyright Peter Buchanan
• Separation
• Doing
• Objective concerns
• Observable function
• Functional device
• Individual buildings
• Freestanding
• Vision (looking good)
• Lifeless materials
• Instantaneity
• Wow
• Concept (imposed)
• Individual genius
• Creativity as self-expression
• Exploiting or fitting into
nature
• Planet as resource
• Reunion/connection
• Being
• Objective and subjective
• ‘Dwelling’
• Cultural artefact
• Urban fabric
• Shaping external space
• Feeling (feeling good)
• Materials with life
• Slow discovery and unfoldment
• Nuance
• Craft (slowly emergent)
• ‘Scenius’
• Creativity as participation
• Dialogue with nature as equal
• Planet as loving partner
FROM: TO:
Summary of forthcoming shifts
The Good City

We will look back at these times from the future with total bafflement.
There is abundant and ever-mounting evidence of the devastation our way
of life will bring to both us and the planet—all far too familiar in their many
interlinked dimensions to require rehearsing yet again. Yet we are still
doing far too little to avoid what is forecast as certain disaster. Instead we
are like rabbits paralyzed in the headlights of an oncoming car awaiting the
demise of all we profess to hold dear with resigned fatalism.
The reasons for inaction are various. They include the blocking actions of
vested interests—rich corporations and the wealthy elite—that benefit
lavishly from the present situation. In this they are aided by supine
politicians and neoliberal dogma—how were we ever gullible enough to
believe in and accept the latter, even in these confused times?
More pertinent are other factors. The multiplicity of solutions offered is
hopeful and enticing, yet also confusing and disempowering. Which of all
these will be effective? And aren’t they too partial, piecemeal and
disconnected?
Reweaving Webs of Relationships (excerpt) Peter Buchanan
Such reservations are valid and apply to ideas surrounding degrowth and
many other eagerly proposed contributions to meeting the challenges of our
times. But the real problem is that they are not part of a larger framework or
strategy for effective action, in particular one informed by an inspiring and
integrative vision of what might supersede the status quo. Equally
disempowering is recognizing just how great are the challenges we face.
Daunting too, is to acknowledge the profound changes required if we are to
approach anything resembling the many dimensions of true sustainability and
bring about the transformed mind sets and ways of engaging each other and
the earth that will deliver it.
What we recognize, or perhaps mostly intuit subconsciously, is that we must
navigate what will prove to be probably the greatest of pivotal shifts in
human history. This will involve changes in the way we live and, perhaps
more to the point, who we think we are—our very identity and sense of
belonging.
These shifts must be at least as great as those accompanying the move from
the nomadic tribes in which we lived for most of human history to the
agrarian settlements we pioneered only 10,000 years or so ago. Also entailed
will be modifying, and even inverting, many of the ways of thinking and being
that have defined us to date as humankind.
But if we ponder all this, it should be as exciting as it is scary to enter a new
phase in the human evolutionary adventure. Yet the enormity of what could
be promised and its enticing possibilities provokes resistance to participating
in this adventure, particularly amongst those let down by the non-delivery of
previous promises.
To understand where we are historically and how we got here, and to guide
what we do now, we must adopt a Big Picture perspective, a much larger
spatial and temporal frame of reference than usual—in short, an evolutionary
and ecological view, so seeing things as unfolding over time and within
multiple webs of interconnections.
The Good City

That we now deny our many interdependencies with the world around, including nature that
evolved us, is a consequence of our earliest days as a species characterized by an extreme
vulnerability, particularly that of our defenseless and long-dependent infants. But we are also
blessed with curiosity, creative intelligence and the capacities for learning and communication
which we used to defend and distance ourselves from the dangers of the world around.
We imagine early tribal people lived in harmony with surrounding nature - and they did so in
considerable degree. But even then, language alone would have started our long and progressive
separation from nature and the world around. An animal is enveloped in an omnipresent world;
but, thanks to language, we live in the world, the addition of the definite article pushing the world
away and separating us from it. This separation was enormously compounded by our various forms
of construction for defense and shelter as well as by our various technologies, such as our early
mastery of fire to banish cold and darkness and keep wild animals away.
Yet the whole world around was still our home to be treated with respectful and reverential
gratitude, and propitiated with rites that recognized and took responsibility for our
interdependencies with nature. But the establishment of agriculture and settlement started a
progressively greater separation from the nature that we tried to conquer and control as we
wrested a home for ourselves from what came to be seen as “other” and even hostile. This
separation intensified with the foundation of cities, most obviously those behind defensive walls,
where separation also manifested in the stratification of, and internal divisions within, society.
Modernity took all this to another extreme.
If modernity were distilled to a single core concept it would be that there is an objective reality
independent of us—the same assumption underlying classic, reductionist, mechanistic science,
what some now call scientism. Prior to the rise of science this exclusionary view of reality would
have been incomprehensibly weird, as it is again today to any who have really grasped the
implications of leading-edge contemporary science, such as quantum entanglement. The extreme
dualism of an assumed objective reality alienates and excludes us from the world around, inhibiting
our sensual and empathic engagement with it and so sense of responsibility for it. Of course, this
objectivism also provoked a counter-reaction in an exploration of the subjective in the modern
novel, psychoanalysis and so on. But although such subjectivism characterizes much of modern
artistic culture, it has remained subordinate to the dominant narrative of an objective reality and
the elevation of rational consciousness—still the mind-set of economics, medicine and much else.
…………………
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To move beyond modernity, we need to recover the sense of community and belonging of the
City of Being. Yet that such cities now seem so reassuringly right for humans is partly because
they were shaped in eras of relative stability and not subject to destabilizing change. That change
must be sweeping and urgent to belatedly deal with what confronts us suggests we need to retain
some of the dynamism of the City of Doing while avoiding its downsides. This answer will be the
City of Becoming, informed by an emerging and expanded sense of what it is to be fully human.
This City will offer multiple ways to explore its richly diverse fabric and facilities and so discover
ever more potentials in ourselves. The architecture of the City of Becoming will further expand
and elaborate this role as it weaves a web of relationships in a way that encourages one to be
aware and engaged, stretching you to all one could become. Instead of modernity’s isolated
objects in a conceptual void, un-treasured and tarted up with smears of landscaping, the result
would be a richly woven tapestry of relationships.
So what is to be rewoven? Pretty much everything, or at least as much as possible, both in the
physical realm and within the psyche. Architecture, urbanism and landscape would regain the
intimate interrelationships they enjoyed prior to modernity, but now informed by concerns such
as sustainability and wellbeing. Architecture will not only once again frame and animate the
public realm, but also harvest ambient energies such as sun and wind, retain and recycle
rainwater, use plants for shading and air purification, and so on. Urban design will also temper
climate as well as create a rich framework of different places, experiences, and meanings to be
explored and enjoyed while expanding one’s self through our relationships to place and history.
The city will also weave patterns of use and circulation to provide ample opportunities for social
encounters and community formation while catering to the needs of people at all ages and stages
of life. Landscape will contribute to climatic comfort and healthy hydrology too, but also enhance
biodiversity and even contribute to food production, if only by including fruit and nut trees. It and
the creatures it hosts might also reintroduce a soul-expanding sense of wildness, mystery, and
magic. And, as we recover the vital roles of culture that were undermined by scientific rationalism
this will not only enrich architecture, cities, and landscape, the plastic arts of sculpture and
painting will return to their role of enhancing, even completing, buildings, not least by making
their meanings more explicit as well as richer and more nuanced.
The Good City

This approach to design is the antithesis of the creative license celebrating the individual creative
ego that has characterized much recent architecture. Weaving relationships requires manners,
respect for and the establishment of synergistic reciprocities with what is around. But too many
contemporary buildings—icons, parametric blobs and other forms of disruptive asshole
architecture—bereft of manners flaunt themselves arrogantly as sunset effect caricatures of the
worst pathologies of modernity. An antidote is to design buildings of quiet presence, and creating
a distinct sense of place is important too. Reweaving a web of relationships involves being
attentive to the many forms of flow around. Attention will return to the skillful crafting of the
most crucial of these flows, all the many forms of human circulation, by which we navigate and
are enticed through the built environment to enliven and generate activities adjacent to these
routes. In contrast to the fluid slosh of space found in modern or parametric layouts, reweaving
requires each part to be a distinct and rooted center, as consistent with sustainability’s ambitious
agenda that every place be treasured in itself as an essential part of our precious planet.
If reweaving is about creating a rich web of horizontal relationships, these need to be stabilized
and grounded by creating vertical connections with earth and sky, past memories and future
potentials, as well as in our psyches, in the depths of our souls, and with our aspirant spirit. The
goal is nothing less than to create a world where citizens are encouraged to live full and, most
important of all, deeply satisfied lives. If proposals do not also promise to interrelate as part of a
larger whole, and offer an expanded and deepened sense of fulfilment, they will not be
enthusiastically embraced and implemented. Instead of the frustrations of half-lived lives, citizens
will then be able to look back from their deathbeds at lives rich in enlivening experiences and
deep connections to people and places. What an ennobling agenda for architecture! And what an
exciting time to be an architect, participating in the great adventure of our time.
×
Overgrowth is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Oslo Architecture Triennale
within the context of its 2019 edition.
Peter Buchanan is a writer, critic, consultant, and curator. He worked as an architect and urban
designer/planner in various parts of Africa, Europe, and the Middle East before joining
the Architect’s Journal and The Architectural Review in 1979, where he most recently wrote The
Big Rethink series.
https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/overgrowth/221630/reweaving-webs-of-relationships/ Copyright Peter Buchanan
The Good City

If I Were You, I Wouldn’t Have Started from Here … Prof. Paul Krause
Copyright Paul Krause
The Good City
Dorset Street, London UK, photographed in 1902
for The People of the Abyss by Jack London
Volunteer fire-fighters spent 36-hour shifts based in the reinforced
basement of Victoria House, Bloomsbury, London tackling the
worst of the London Blitz. (The author’s grandfather is on the far
left).
One distinguishing feature of a complex system is path dependency:
outcomes vary depending on the route taken.
It has been urged that the criticism I have passed on things as they are
in England is too pessimistic. I must say, in extenuation, that of
optimists I am the most optimistic. But I measure manhood less by
political aggregations than by individuals. Society grows, while political
machines rack to pieces and become “scrap.” For the English, so far as
manhood and womanhood and health and happiness go, I see a broad
and smiling future. But for a great deal of the political machinery,
which at present mismanages for them, I see nothing else than the
scrap heap.
JACK LONDON. PIEDMONT, CALIFORNIA.
The need for men and women to work together and force the
political machine to make life better helped to reinforce a social
cohesion that manifests itself in a level of pride and sense of place.
Paul Krause: BSc PhD FIMA Cmath: Professor in Complex Systems -
Surrey University
See also contributions to Urban Hub 7, 8, 9,11 & 13

More importantly, how do we build social cohesion in
a modern mega-city that has little or no historical
context – “I wouldn’t have started from here”?
Green Infrastructure naturally established in historic
London. But the balance is changed in new build.
However, the wider community continues to evolve a
collective understanding of the value of maintaining
London as a “Natural Capital”, although the budgets
for many initiatives are constantly under threat; we
need more hard evidence of the benefits of
maintaining social and natural capital to growing and
maintaining a City as a resilient complex system.
Now, the economic imperative is cutting that social
cohesion with knives. Industries that used to hold
communities together continue to leave.
There seems to be an inevitable transition from an
industrial economy to a service-based economy as a
nation develops.
It is chronic and at a late stage in countries with the
highest GDP. But it seems that every developing
nation is following this trajectory.
How do we hold on to the diversity yet social
cohesion of a historic, cosmopolitan city; even
enhance it?
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a key element in also maintaining
social cohesion.
London: A Natural Capital

"We move from part to whole and back again, and in that
dance of comprehension, in that amazing circle of
understanding, we come alive to meaning, to value, and
to vision: the very circle of understanding guides our
way, weaving together the pieces, healing the fractures,
mending the torn and tortured fragments, lighting the
way ahead -- this extraordinary movement from part to
whole and back again, with healing the hallmark of each
and every step, and grace the tender reward."
Ken Wilber

This
Transition to a New Development Paradigm Cristina Mendonça
Deep engagement initiative to unlock a new way of being of individuals, culture and systems
“It always seems impossible until it is done”
Nelson Mandela
Fragmented approaches to drive change through the
over emphasis on the systems dimension of change
have been dysfunctional to address the intertwined
environmental, social, economical and existential
planetary crisis.
The initiative will apply integral theory, action
research, adult developmental theory and change
theory to engage participants as change agents
toward thriveability.
Each of the 10 dimensions of change is
interlinked and inter-dependent with each
other. Every change in one interconnection
affects the entire system.
21st century change agents are not only more
skillful, with higher capacities, but essentially
embody a new way of being, through a more
complex and inclusive worldview, enabling
them to activate all dimensions of change.
Cristina Mendonça (techni@techni.com.br ) www.techni.com.br
Making The Change
Adapted from MetaImpact framework
www.metaintegral.com/

Cristina Mendonça is a change strategist in the context of climate change, cities and development initiatives that have global
impact. She has 20+ years leadership experience in the private and non-governmental sectors, mobilizing human and financial
resources, leading, facilitating and engaging multiple stakeholders toward action in change processes.
“If you are not aware of how you are part of the problem, you can’t be part of the solution” Bill Torbert
• Phase 1: In-person workshop at the Pontifical
Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
(August, 2019)
• Phase 2: Virtual community of practice in Brazil
(4th qt, 2019)
• Phase 3: Global virtual community of practice
roll out (2020)
Embodying a 1,5ºC thriving lifestyle practice
Some ingredients: collaboration, creativity, inclusion, innovation, technology, shared values, planet
Source: “Transition”, 2015. Cristina Mendonça
What if we “travelled” within ourselves to explore how we are part of the planetary crisis?
Through principles of neuroscience, experiential practices including mindfulness, embodiment as well as
group work using conversation, deep listening and interpersonal relationship will be offered as tools to
facilitate and activate change processes.
(1) Seth Wynes and Kimberly A Nicholas. The climate mitigation gap: education and government
recommendations miss the most effective individual actions 2017 Environ. Res. Lett. 12
(2) https://noflyclima`tesci.org
Avoid flying is one of the most impactful actions that one
can take to reduce GEE(1)
. With the advance of virtual
technologies and with the emergency of the climate crisis,
the initiative will activate, engage and support virtual
communities of practice. Partners and participants are
encouraged to sign-up to the “No Fly Climate Sci”(2) and
the “We Stay on the Ground”(3)
campaigns.
(3) www.westayontheground.`blogspot.com
Transition to a New Development Paradigm Cristina Mendonça
Cristina Mendonça (techni@techni.com.br ) www.techni.com.br
Making The Change

The Good City
Reframing Complex Challenges for Gaia’s Human Hives Marilyn Hamilton
www.integralcity.com
Integral City 3.7 Reframes Complex Challenges for
Gaia’s Human Hives.
It offers three practices for designing a collective urban life that
works for all life; namely:
Caring
Contexting
Capacity Building
This is Book 3 in the Integral City series. It applies and expands in
multiple directions the 12 intelligences described in Book 1,
Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive,
and builds on the field work of Book 2: Integral City Inquiry &
Action: Designing Impact for the Human Hive.
Part 1: Deepening Care – explores Spirituality, Creativity and the
Master Code.
Part 2: Raising Contexts – explores Cities as Trigger Points and
Tipping Points, the Invisible City and Security in the Human Hive.
Part 3: Widening Capacity – explores 4 scales of Capacity
Building in human systems: Leadership, Organizations, Systems
and the City.
Hamilton, M. 2018. Integral City 3.7: Reframing Complex Challenges for
Gaia’s Human Hives. Amaranthpress. Tucson AZ
Marilyn Hamilton is a city evolutionist, activist, author,
and researcher. A radical optimist, she catalyzes city well-being
through living, evolutionary, whole systems approaches.

Imagine Waking Up the Human Hive as
Gaia’s Reflective Organs:
A Dance in 3 Acts
by Marilyn Hamilton
Integral City Meshworks
Imagine Waking Up the Human Hive as Gaia’s Reflective Organs
Copyright Marilyn Hamilton
Hamilton, M. (2018) Integral City 3.7: Reframing Complex Challenges for
Gaia’s Human Hives. Minneapolis, MN: Amaranth Press, p. 337-342
Making The Change

• Imagine the city as a human hive – a living organ
of Gaia who has a purpose that is in service to
Gaia’s wellbeing and sustainability and is
embraced by its citizens.
• Imagine human hives who can resource their
purpose with internal and external resources
and funding.
• Imagine the human hive as a living innovation
eco-system, where we enable the connections
between the four voices of the city - Citizens,
Civil Society, City/Institutional Managers,
Business/Innovators - so they not only thrive
today but create a legacy of life conditions for
the next generations to evolve and thrive.
• Imagine human hives who know how to
connect. They can map their existing
connections, align people to purpose and
priorities. They can amplify what works, let go of
what doesn’t and continuously improve the
value they contribute to Gaia.
Prelude:
Imagine Waking up the
Human Hive
Making The Change

• Imagine human hives who learn from each other
and develop the whole system of human hives in
an evolutionary direction.
• If we can imagine such a city, we can imagine
creating and implementing plans for the glocal-
scale challenges of climate adaptation, energy
shifts, water management, food security and
cultural evolution.
• To do so, we can imagine how to release
resources now trapped in city sectors, silos and
stovepipes.
• We can imagine the frameworks, tools and
processes that catalyze new conversations, build
on the underlying values and recalibrate the
assets, capacities and capitals into meshworks of
economic, environmental, social and cultural
interests.
• We can imagine creating the model for
community engagement, city development,
business strategies and communication
technologies to evolve the intelligences in our
cities into thriving human hives.
Making The Change

Imagine Your City has a sense of its own Spirit and
discovers its purpose in service to the wellbeing of
its eco-region and the planet.
Imagine that Your City valued its values, history,
traditions and culture so that it conserves what
works well and teaches it (or shares) with others,
including children, youth, seniors, business, civil
society, and city hall.
Imagine that Your City was open to creative
change so that it could replace what does not work
well with what can work better, and even inspire
people to want more change.
Imagine that Your City discovers the wisdom and
resources to create itself as a valued and valuable
city – for its citizens, families, organizations,
communities, neighborhoods, sectors, state and
country.
Imagine Your City Dances Like a
Thriving Innovation Ecosystem
Act 1:
With Deep Inner Listening
Making The Change

ACT 2: Where Work Is Love In Action
Imagine that Your City appreciates the great diversity in the city –
from workers who produce value, to innovators and artists who
generate diversity, to investors and resource allocators who find
and manage resources for worthy projects, to integrators who see
the city as alive for humans as a beehive is for bees.
Imagine that Your City has an innovation eco-system that provides
it with a thriving economy that draws on its history of success in
manufacturing and co-creates new opportunities through
innovation laboratories at its universities and businesses.
Imagine that Your City’s education and training sector in
conjunction with business and civil society, committed to the high
school graduation as a minimum target for its children; coop and
intern opportunities for youth; and with governments, created the
conditions for full employment for all adults.
Imagine that all students in Your City learn in school: mutual trust
and respect; how to dialogue with others; how to cooperate
through teamwork with others; and how to coordinate projects
and processes to produce life-giving results.
Imagine that Your City commits to balancing interests for a healthy
economy and wellbeing amongst its citizens through engaging
with all the voices of the city in making decisions, managing plans
and achieving goals.
Making The Change

Imagine that Your City has an integrated
sustainability plan so that it measures, tracks and
exchanges sustainability data related to energy,
water, food, finance, economic production and
climate, that it shares internally with city
stakeholders and externally with other cities in
the region.
Imagine that Your City understands how it adds
value to the economy and environment and
positions itself strategically in relation to other
cities in the region, the eco-region, Your Nation
and the Planet.
Imagine that Your City has excellent information
systems that inform the decisions of not only city
hall, but all businesses, citizens, civil society,
institutions (healthcare, education, spiritual), eco-
regions and all government levels (state,
regional, national).
Imagine that the management of Your City
meshworks so well by integrating stakeholders
that it is a model for other cities of its size in Your
Eco-Region, Your Nation, Your Continent and the
world.
Act 3: Choreographing With The
Intelligences Of Nature
Making The Change

Imagine that Your City’s ability to respond to
stresses (environmental, economic, physical,
cultural, social, psychological) at all levels of
scale, creates a resilient city, because all
stakeholders working together (in a meshwork)
create the conditions for everyone in the city to
communicate with each other willingly and
regularly.
Imagine that Your City is fully optically/
energetically/IT wired so that all parts of the city
could communicate internally and externally with
the rest of the world.
Imagine that Your City practices transparent
governance, accountability and accessibility to
information so that people feel safe to share,
care and relate to each other, their places and
the planet fairly.
Imagine that Your City balances efficient
management with enough extra resources that
the city is resilient to change: co-creating with
the intelligences of nature where work is love in
action with deep inner listening.
Copyright Marylin Hamilton
Making The Change

Community Co Creation – Vision 2030 Alan Dean
www.burning2learn.co.uk
Making The Change

Making The Change
The World Association Sustainable Development,
19th conference was held in London June 2019 pulling
together communities from around the world. Sharing their
findings whilst evaluating opportunities to collaborate with
each other. Whilst we all talk about working together many
minds are trapped in a “what’s in it for me” attitude . This
stubborn mindset can not stop the tsunami of change we
are all facing. We have not enough lifeguards to save 7.7
billion people.
Time to train the surfer that can ride the Tsunami of change
Many bright people are not being heard. We often feel that
we are banging our head on a closed door, the challenge is to
stop and think, are we talking to the makers or the takers?
Our guess is that 80+% will take your energy and waste it.
10+% will want to act but not yet, so without a shadow of a
doubt will teach just the less than 10% who want to learn.
Speed is of the essence and many will fall by the wayside -
we can’t wait for them. We require elite surfers, we will
make mistakes, share what we get wrong and what worked
so others don’t make the same mistake.
Working on the edge of chaos we hope to save many
people.
E-Learning can become a vehicle of choice, but to be
effective we require an understanding of learners cultures
and value and also which global goals are the most
important at this stage. Seek to find safe places for those
pioneers in your communities. Leaders are too wrapped up
in trying to make the current model work. They are
overburdened, now is the time to build resilience into
yourself, your family, your street and then your town.
Remember the aeroplane safety talk, place your own oxygen
mask on first before you help others.

Making The Change

Making The Change
Today is a listening & being day
Tomorrow is a doing day and next week is a reporting week,
success and failures. It sounds simple but believe it or not people
are open too it, we have tried and so often we failed.
We cultivate communities so that they can help each other to co
create their own future in the present.
The sense of belonging breaks down when society choose to see
people merely as data. Coders are not required to build in
unintended consequences’. Their codes deals with yes or no, 1 or
0 inputs. When people don’t fit the boxes they are often seen a
problem (computer says no).
This struggle to align the energy of the town to the outcomes of
poor community engagement creates a lack of trust on both
sides.
Time poverty and the desire to scale up rather than scale out has
to be addressed.
Only together can we move in the right direction.
l e y
Education
GenderEquality
Water
Energy
Work&Income
Food
Climate
Action
Life at
Sea
Life on
Land
Peace
Justice
Health
Alan Dean Founder/Managing Director
Burning2Learn UK Ltd
Motivating tomorrows adults today

Making The Change

In a certain sense, integral approaches are “meta-paradigms,” or ways to draw
together an already existing number of separate paradigms into an interrelated
network of approaches that are mutually enriching.
A Broader Framework
Integral Theory
Integral approaches to any field attempt to be exactly that
to include as many:
• perspectives
• styles
• methodologies
as possible within a coherent view of the topic.
Integral Means
• comprehensive
• inclusive
• non-marginalizing
• embracing

The ‘world’ is an experience in four
dimensions, the:
‘I’ – intentions or subjective;
‘We’ – cultural or intersubjective;
‘It’ – behavioural or objectives, and
‘Its’ – social systems or inter-objective.
these are the Quadrants.
These dimensions are then filtered through:
• our complexity of experiences or Stages
of Development;
• our different streams of experience or
Line of Development in areas such as
cognition, values, world-view, ego/self,
morals, etc.,
• our Types such as our gender, religion,
politics, race, ...... psychology, and finally
through
• our State in experiencing such as: mood
(happy or sad],wake, or asleep ........ etc.)
Putting these all together we have a simple
overview of the Integral Map or the AQAL
Integral meta-theory.
A Broader Framework
AQAL Framework

© integralMENTORS
What can be said about a more integral model of
human possibilities? Before talking about the
application of an integral vision — in education,
politics, business, health care, and so on — there needs
to be some general notion of what it is that is to be
applied in the first place. Moving from pluralistic
relativism to universal integralism, what kind of map
might be found?
A more integral cartography might include:
• multiple waves of existence, spanning the entire
spectrum of consciousness, subconscious to self-
conscious to super-conscious.
• numerous different streams, modules, or lines of
development, including cognitive, moral, spiritual,
aesthetic, somatic, imaginative, interpersonal, etc.
• multiple states of consciousness, including waking,
dreaming, sleeping, altered, non-ordinary, and
meditative.
• numerous different types of consciousness,
including gender types, personality types
(enneagram, Myers-Briggs, Jungian), and so on.
• multiple brain states and organic factors.
Subjects do not perceive worlds but enact them. Different states of subjects bring forth different worlds.
A more integral cartography might also include:
A Broader Framework

• the extraordinarily important impact of numerous
cultural factors, including the rich textures of diverse
cultural realities, background contexts, pluralistic
perceptions, linguistic semantics, and so on, none of
which should be unwarrantedly marginalized, all of
which should be included and integrated in a broad
web of integral-aperspectival tapestries (and, just as
important, a truly "integral transformative practice"
would give considerable weight to the importance of
relationships, community, culture, and intersubjective
factors in general, not as merely a realm of application
of spiritual insight, but as a mode of spiritual
transformation).
• the massively influential forces of the social system, at all
levels (from nature to human structures, including the
all-important impact of nonhuman social systems, from
Gaia to ecosystems).
A more integral cartography might also include:
ocial system
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all levels (from nature to human structures,
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eight to the importance of relationships,
ommunity, culture, and intersubjective factors in
eneral, not as merely a realm of application of
piritual insight, but as a mode of spiritual
ansformation).
A Broader Framework
• the importance of the self as the navigator of the great
River of Life should not be overlooked. It appears that
the self is not a monolithic entity but rather a society of
selves with a centre of gravity, which acts to bind the
multiple waves, states, streams, and realms into
something of a unified organization; the disruption of
this organization, at any of its general stages, can result
in pathology.
Such are a few of the multiple factors that a richly
holistic view of the Kosmos might wish to include.
At the very least, any model that does not
coherently include all of those items is not a very
integral model. Ken Wilber

"A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if
he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise"
https://www.pps.org/article/what-is-placemaking
AQAL : IMP
“Placemaking inspires people to collectively reimagine and
reinvent public spaces as the heart of every community.
Strengthening the connection between people and the
places they share, Placemaking refers to a collaborative
process by which we can shape our public realm in order to
maximize shared value.
More than just promoting better urban design,
Placemaking facilitates creative patterns of use, paying
particular attention to the physical, cultural, and social
identities that define a place and support its ongoing
evolution.”
- Evolution
- Emergence
- Living systems. Life cycles (generational sequences)
- Integral intelligences each quadrant
- Strategic intelligence
- Accounting / Evaluating
- Evolutionary intelligence
- Meshworks : structure & self organising layering
A Broader Framework

Integral
Methodological
Pluralism
A set of social practices that
corresponds with AQAL
metatheory.
IMP is paradigmatic in that it
includes the most time-honored
methodologies, and meta-
paradigmatic in that it weaves
them together by way of three
integrative principles:
• non-exclusion,
• unfoldment, &
• enactment
A Broader Framework
AQAL : IMP

A Broader Framework - Towards an Integral View
© integralMENTORSwww.integralmentors.org
ValuesBehaviour(s) Culture(s)Systems
Values
Culture
Behaviour
Systems
Not integrated - Siloed
1st Tier 2nd Tier
integral
Towards an Integral View
the ‘worlds’ we work in the ‘worlds’ we must work from
Tribal
Post-tribal
Traditional
Modern
Post-Modern
Values Behaviour
Culture Systems

Cultural and social
norms
that are unseen but
nevertheless inform
institutions, decision-making,
and action.
Behaviour,
actions, and
practices
that support adaptation to
climate change.
A Broader Framework
www.integralmentors.org
Worldviews,
values, and
“meaning-making”
that create an internal
understanding and motivation
regarding climate change
adaptation.
Systems & social
institutions
that influence
adaptation strategies
and decisions (positively
or negatively).
inte g ral
Adaptation and Change
Behaviour, actions,
and practices
that support adaptation to
climate change.
Worldviews,
values, and
“meaning-making”
that create an internal
understanding and motivation
regarding climate change
adaptation.
Cultural and social
norms
that are unseen but
nevertheless inform
institutions, decision-
making, and action.
Systems & social
institutions
that influence adaptation
strategies and decisions
(positively or negatively)
Un-integrated
What actually gives rise to adaptation?What does not gives rise to adaptation?
Siloes

INTERVENTIONS
'Whatever plan of action we adopt in our attempt to remake the world, our
usual first step it to pin a laudatory label on what we are doing. We may call
it development, cure, correction, improvement, help, or progress. We load
untested conclusions onto ill-stated premises. But every intervention in an
existing system is, for certain, only an intervention. We will make progress
faster if we honestly call the changes “interventions” only, until an audit
shows what we have actually done. Needless to say, such honesty will be
resisted by most promoters of change.
The point isn’t to avoid risk or even intervention. But rather to be humble
about our knowledge, or lack of it. To know when we should avoid small,
immediate, and visible benefits that introduce the possibility for large (and
possibly invisible) side effects. Less is more.’
Garrett Hardin writes In Filters Against Folly

Mapping Integral Interventions
Contrast metamodern ideas against modern and postmodern ideas
www.metamoderna.org/metamodernism

Personal Development
Development occurs through the interplay between person and
environment, not just by one or the other. It is a potential and can be
encouraged and facilitated by appropriate support and challenge.
The depth, complexity, and scope of what people notice can
expand throughout life. Yet no matter how evolved we become, our
knowledge and understanding is always partial and incomplete.
As development unfolds, autonomy, freedom, tolerance for
difference and ambiguity, as well as flexibility, reflection and skill in
interacting with the environment increase, while defences decrease.
Overall, worldviews evolve from simple to complex, from static to
dynamic, and from egocentric to socio-centric to world-centric.
Each later stage in the sequence is more differentiated, integrated,
flexible and capable of functioning optimally in a world that is
rapidly changing and becoming more complicated.
People's stage of development influences what they notice or can
become aware of, and therefore what they can describe, articulate,
influence, and change.
The main reason that learning is as slow as it is, is that learning
means giving up ideas, habits, and values. Some of the old
“learning” that has to be given up or “unlearned” was useful in the
past, and is still useful to some of the people in the society. Some of
the things that people have to unlearn are traditions that are dear to
people, and that may be part of their personal character
development. Some of what needs to be forgotten are ways of living
that still have important values to people.

Communities
Lines of Development

Integral MENTORS
The ‘Walk’ The ‘Systems’The ‘Talk’ The ‘Star’ &
Shadow
The
COG
Personal
Alignment
Action-Logic
Leadership
Development
Values
Personal
Development
Self-Identity
Personal
Development
The Leading
edge of
thought
the ‘Talk’
The trailing
tail of action
the ‘Shadow’
The centre
of action
the ‘Walk’
Stages of Leadership Development
Integral - Communication
developmental
pull
the ‘Star’

For communication tools see ‘Guides for Integrally Informed Practitioners : Basic’ – Paul van Schaik vS Publishers
Personal beliefs/
mindset
Systems existing &
proposed
Cultural views
Personal Behaviour
Context
Stages of development
Interior Subjective :
Values - mindsets & intention
Exterior Objective :
Behaviour – competences & capacities
Interior Intersubjective :
Culture - worldviews
Exterior Interobjective :
Systems – infrastructure & creations
Any attempt at interventions to modify behaviour needs to consider the interrelationship between behaviour, values &
mindsets, culture and existing systems in place and systems of infrastructure being proposed.
Each of these domains have a distinct influence and need to be tetra-meshed to embed change in the long-term. Change can
be translational – healthier at same Stage of development or transformational – healthier (hopefully) a higher Stage of
development.
An Integral Approach to Development

An Integral Approach to Development
Beliefs/mindset (individuals)
Determine Values Centre of Gravity (VCG)
(a number of instruments are available to measure VCG)
Communications:
1. to nudge ‘improvements’ at current VCG (short term)
2. to transform to higher levels of understanding (long
term)
- stories, messages, school programs, social media,
advertising etc. Peer group pressure, role models etc.
Cultural views (communities etc.)
Determine Dominant Mode of Discourse (DMD)
(a number of instruments are available to measure DMD)
Communications:
1. to nudge ‘improvements’ at current DMD (short term)
2. to transform to higher levels of understanding (long
term)
- stories, messages, school programs, social media,
advertising etc. Peer group pressure, role models etc.
Behaviour (individuals)
To change Personal Behaviour both
– translational more healthy at same level (horizontal)
- transformational towards a higher stage of development
(vertical)
- new laws & guidelines/instructions
- programs/projects in other quadrants.
Context
For communication tools see ‘Guides for Integrally Informed Practitioners : Basic’ – Paul van Schaik vS Publishers
translational or
transformational
Systems
in place – what needs improving & what needs replacing
proposed systems C40 interventions
These ‘problems’ are know as ‘wicked problems’ and
actions or interventions usually bring forth unintended
consequences. This constant alignment to goals of vision
needed
Projects need to be co created with
communities – not handed down
from the centre. See Modes of
Participation table (level 6 to 8 for
‘sustainable’ results)
Any intervention must be designed and implemented in conjunction with projects in other quadrants
development

Integral Framework - Simplified
Values
Cultures Systems
Behaviour
The main reason that learning is as slow as it
is, is that learning means giving up ideas,
habits, and values. Some of the old “learning”
that has to be given up or “unlearned” was
useful in the past, and is still useful to some of
the people in the society. Some of the things
that people have to unlearn are traditions that
are dear to people, and that may be part of
their personal character development. Some
of what needs to be forgotten are ways of
living that still have important values to
people.
Folding Back the Future
"It is not that we aren’t doing anything to
influence our future. We are. We do what
everybody does. We know that our actions
have implications for the future and we act
accordingly. But what we fail to do is fold our
future back into our present with any real
creativity or power in the course of our day-
to-day activities - and day-to-day activities are
where the future occurs."
"Our future emerges from the interplay of
today’s actions. Enough of the ‘right’ actions
and we will survive and prosper. Too many of
the ‘wrong’ ones and we will disappear.
Enough of a fuzzy mixture and we will take a
little longer to disappear, with a few of us
waking up to discover what path we are on
and working out a recovery." Mike McMasters

www.integralmentors.org
A Broader Framework
Framing the issue
Timescale
Issue
World ‘Values’ mindsets
Tribal Post-tribal
ego centric
Traditional
ethno-centric
Modern
socio-centric
Post-Modern
world-centric
Integral
CO2
Technology
Pollution
Population
QuantityQuantity
Problem area
Leader ‘Values’ needed mindsets
Leaders ‘Values’ mindsets
Current Systems Organisations etc.
transformation &
translation

The deeper your development the
broader your evaluation

Copyright Reporting 3.0
Sustainability Quotient: Numeration & Denomination
• REDESIGN of a new economic system for
• RESILIENCE of social and ecological systems and
• REGENERATION beyond a baseline of social and ecological sustainability
thresholds – to thriveability!
Sustainability Quotient: S =
A
N
*On the Carrying Capacities of Vital Capital Resources
Numeration
Denomination( )Actual Impacts*
Normative Impacts*
Sustainability =
Source: Mark McElroy, Social Footprints, 2008
UNRISD Indicators Project: Three-Tiered “Pyramid” Typology
• Tier One: Incrementalist Numeration
o Numerator indicators focus on actual impacts, including absolute indicators, as well as relative or intensity indicators that are non-
normative, and therefore incrementalist by definition.
• Tier Two: Contextualized Denomination
o Denominator indicators contextualize actual impacts against normative impacts. Also known as “Context-Based” indicators,
denominator indicators take into account sustainability thresholds in ecological, social, and economic systems, as well as allocations of
those thresholds to organizations and other entities.
• Tier Three: Activating Transformation
o Transformative indicators add the element of implementation and policy to normative denominator indicators to instantiate change
within complex adaptive systems.
Integral Evaluation

Tier One: Incremental Numeration
• Absolute indicators measure the actual impact itself. For example, a carbon footprint is the amount of carbon an entity emits over a
distinct period of time.
• Relative / intensity indicators do exactly what their name suggests – they relate the actual impact to an independent variable that
provides a comparative view to widen understanding. For example, a standard relative indicator is actual impact compared to a unit of
output. Carbon emitted per widget produced.
Tiers Two: Contextual Denomination
• Science-Based Goals/Metrics – Grounded in scientific knowledge of how human impacts
affect vital resources in the world (capitals) and human well-being, but which do not
prescribe organization-specific allocations of the shared or exclusive burdens to preserve or
produce them, accordingly;
• Ethics-Based Goals/Metrics – Grounded in norms of fairness, justice, integrity and respect,
but which, again, do not prescribe organization-specific allocations of the shared or exclusive
burdens to preserve or produce them, accordingly;
• Context-Based Goals/Metrics – Science- and ethics-based goals or metrics that also prescribe
organization-specific allocations of the shared or exclusive burdens to preserve or maintain
vital capitals at levels required to ensure stakeholder well-being.
Integral Evaluation

• Incremental change focuses on reinforcing or reducing systems, while allowing it to gradually shift in a more or less continuous way,
such as when a retail company expands by opening stores in new locations, and when wind turbine technology is replicated as an
emerging innovation
• Reform happens when there is a shift of power or dominance among linked system components, again within a given system, such as
when laws move regulation from government to business (self-regulation)
• Transformational change occurs when there is fundamental systemic change resulting from new ways of understanding what is
possible and acting on them, such as South Africa’s movement from preto post-apartheid, or the reconfiguration of physical and
ecological processes in the natural environment resulting from human-driven climate change.
https://networkingaction.net/wp-content/uploads/JCC58_LSC-Issue.pdf
Tier Three: Pace (Three Horizons Framework)
Integral Evaluation

Scale-Linking & Multilevel Selection
Reporting 3.0 Strategy Continuum
SUSTAINABILITY
Context-basedthresholdsandallocations
acrossmultiplecapitals
NEW ECONOMY
Economic system design transformation
Uncontextualized
Assessment /
Unsustainable
Performance
Contextualized
Assessment /
Unsustainable
Performance
Contextualized
Assessment /
Sustainable
Performance
Horizontal Axis
• BAU: No evidence of sustainability assessment / progress
• Improving: Evidence of incremental progress vis-à-vis carrying capacities of
capitals / sustainability thresholds
• Sustaining (mid-line): Performance meets break-even point – no worse than
the sustainability threshold
• Regenerating: Evidence of (context-based) net-positive sustainability
performance (regenerative impacts on capitals)
• Thriving: Evidence of gross-positive sustainability performance (no negative
impacts on capitals needing to be netted out)
Vertical Axis
• Micro Level: Evidence of progress at the entity level
• Meso Level: Evidence of entity-level progress catalyzing industry / portfolio /
habitat level transformation
• Macro Level: Evidence of entity- / industry- / portfolio- / habitat-level
progress that catalyzes economic / ecological / social systems level
transformation
@Reporting 3.0 2018
Integral Evaluation

Integral Evaluation
Guiding principle here is that you need enough
diversity in what data you are gathering and
how you are gathering it, that you can
adequately capture impacts that are occurring
in all quadrants.
Types of data to be collected:
- third-person data (objective) such as
surveys or other quantitative ways to
measure change,
- second-person (intersubjective data) such
as data that is generated and interpreted
together as a group or within a process, and
- first-person (subjective data) such as
reflective answers, thick description, or other
qualitative descriptions (one-on-one).
Impact on Practices
(practices & conduct
carrying out work)
Impact on Systems
(policies, structures that
support innovation in
work)
Impact on Mindsets
(ways of thinking about
and approaching
problems)
Impact on Culture
(collaboration, cultural
perceptions, and social
discourse in issues)
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LOW POINT ASSESSMENT:
Moving potential forward, addressing gaps
and sticking points
FOUR QUADRANT MAP:
Working With Complexity
Topic or Issue:Topic or Issue:
Integral Evaluation

Systems inquiry
Description: quantitative measurement of seen changes in social, economic, political
systems in which the work is carried out.
Methods: systems analysis
Methodologies: systems-analysis tool
S
E
Empirical inquiry
Description: quantitative measurement of seen changes in behaviours, for example:
shifts in land-use practices, uptake of conservation practices in the household,
behavioural change in gender relations.
Methods: empiricism
Methodologies: measuring, ranking, and quantitative analysis (pre/during/post
measurement that ranks certain behaviours from 1-10 and can compare/contrast to
later assessment, after which time that data can be analysed using quantitative methods
to create graphs and figures of what percentage of behaviours changed through the
lifetime of the project.)
Integral Methodological Pluralism application - international development framework : Gail Hochachka IWB
Integral Evaluation

Reflective, experiential inquiry
Description: interior felt-sense, how one feels (about oneself, org, project, issue),
Methods: phenomenology
Methodologies: personal ecology sheet
self-reflection (can use this tool to guide the process, can be an ongoing cascading reflection-stream,
and/or can be accessed through journaling).
Developmental inquiry
Description: interior personal change, developmental stages, changes in motivation, attitudes, and
values.
Methods: structuralism
Methodologies: developmental assessment (includes pre/post interviews that are carried out one-
on-one with a sample of the population and the interviewer is trained to ask the same questions that
hone in on indicators for motivational, attitudinal
R
I
Interpretive inquiry
Description: culture and meanings held by the group or community; for example, how do people
generally feel and what do they know about “conservation”, what does “conservation concession”
mean to them?
Methods: hermeneutics
Methodologies: focus group (using a guided method, shared below, as a pre/during/post method
of “taking the pulse” of the group—where motivation lies, what is working what is not, how can the
project shift and flow.
Ethno-methodological inquiry
Description: changes in social discourse, implicit “background” social norms, and shared worldview.
Method Family: ethno-methodology
Methodologies: participant-observation (using a tool with focus questions on specific domains of
change)
Integral Methodological Pluralism application - international development framework : Gail Hochachka IWB
Integral Evaluation

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THIRD-PERSON DATA
COLLECTION
• Build in content from the
indicator table into the feedback
forms, proposal questions, grant
reports, forum retrospectives, etc.
• This will generate actual numbers
along the 1-5 spectrum for these
indicators, which can be
quantified and used in evaluation
analysis and reporting.
• Any thing you quantify (numbers
of participants, proposals or multi
sector tables) can be useful to
analyze and include.
SECOND-PERSON DATA COLLECTION
• At the Evaluation Pod meetings and
Development Evaluation (DE) meetings
generate discussion and reflection through
prompting with skillful DE questions. Then,
harvest the insights and doing pattern-
finding; that is where indicators come in.
• Community Liaison carry out this pattern-
finding afterwards then reflect back to the
other participants later.
• During the DE sessions, do some group
pattern-finding with indicator tables written
on flip-charts, and participants use post-it
notes to tag where in the spectrum they
would say the outcome was achieved. This
is based on participant-observation, and is
co-generated in a focus-group style
meeting.
FIRST-PERSON DATA
COLLECTION
• To generate thick descriptions on
these indicators (about how and
why changes occurred as they
did):
• use more in-depth reflective
questions posed within one of the
activities, such as a qualitative
question in a survey
• or by doing key-informant
interviews with a sample of the
target audience.
Integral Evaluation

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Integral Evaluation

MetaImpact Framework
At the heart of our approach is The MetaImpact Framework, which measures 4
Types of Impact with 10 Types of Capital which produce 4 Bottom Lines.
4 Types of Impact
10 Types of Capital
4 Bottom Lines
MetaIntegral is a global transdisciplinary design firm. We support visionary leaders, teams,
and organizations to Be IMPACT. To do this we draw on and integrate a number of theories
and their associated practices including: embodiment theory, design theory, integral theory,
and developmental theory. As a result we help you thrive in complexity – transforming the
world – from an embodied place of presence and purpose. We love to co-create with you –
your events, products, services, books, business models, and business ecosystems among
other things.
MetaIntegral Capital is the branch of MetaIntegral that is dedicated to the design of wisdom
economies – which are accounting systems that integrate multiple types of impact, multiple
forms of capital, and multiple bottom lines. This site is devoted to sharing with you
our MetaImpact Framework, which lies at the heart of our approach to preserving the
wholeness of individuals and systems.
www.metacapital.net
Integral Evaluation

Over the last 30 years various individuals have
created multiple capital frameworks which
include anywhere between 3 and 20 different
types of capital.
We’ve done an integrative meta-analysis of over
a dozen of these frameworks to identify what are
the most important forms of capital to include in
an expanded framework and how might we
combine them into an elegant and intuitive
framework – one that not only includes essential
types of capital but highlights the different kinds
of relationship between these capitals.
In 2011 the International Integrated Reporting
Council (IIRC) began a multi-year global
initiative to develop an expanded model of
capital.
Through their process they identified six types of
capital that should be included in an integrated
report.
We have included all six of these in our model
(they are identified with an asterisk after their
name in our model).
In addition to these six we have included four
more that our analysis indicates are necessary
for a comprehensive assessment of value
creation.
Then using Integral Theory we have organized
these into four quadrants.
www.metacapital.net
10 Types of Capital
Integral Evaluation

Clear Impact
One of the most common forms of impact is Clear Impact, which measures
change in stakeholder performance. Many businesses and organizations
include various metrics to assess this area of impact (e.g., skill assessments,
analytics, observation tools, and various KPIs). What all these metrics have in
common is the focus on objective criteria to track behavior and performance.
These four types of impact
combine to create a
comprehensive model
of impact …High Impact
The other main form of impact is High Impact, which measures change in
stakeholder systems (e.g., supply chains, cash flow, customer engagement) .
Many businesses and organizations include various metrics to assess this area
of impact (e.g., environmental impact assessments, financial impact
assessments, input indicators, and various KPIs). What all these metrics have
in common is the focus on interobjective or systemic criteria to track
organizational and market dynamics.
Wide Impact
Over the last decade it has become more common for organizations to
include Wide Impact, which measures change in stakeholder relationships.
With forms of network analysis and social mapping there have emerged
various metrics to assess this area of impact (e.g., 360 Assessments,
relationship mapping, interviews, and social impact assessments). What all
these metrics have in common is the focus on intersubjective criteria to track
the quality and quantity of relationships and their influence.
Deep Impact
Arguably, one of the most important forms of impact is Deep Impact, which
measures change in stakeholder experience. There is a growing awareness
among many businesses and organizations that this form of impact needs to
be included. Various metrics are used to assess this area of impact (e.g., self-
evaluations, psychometrics, satisfaction surveys, and happiness inventories).
What all these metrics have in common is the focus on subjective criteria to
track somatic, emotional, and psychological dimensions of experience.
www.metacapital.net
4 Impacts
Integral Evaluation

www.metacapital.net
The 10 Capitals and their forms of
measurement combine into 4 Bottom
Lines. These include the common triple
bottom line of Profit, People, and Planet
but also adds a 4th – Purpose. While a
number of 4 bottom line models have
been proposed – some of which even
include Purpose as a fourth – our
approach to having 4 bottom lines is
distinct in at least two ways.
First, the common bottom lines of Profit,
People, and Planet are often exclusively
defined in terms of what we would call
High Impact – with a focus on the systems
involved. In contrast to this we redefine
each of these bottom lines in a more
holistic and integrative fashion – building
on the important work of previous uses
but avoiding a reductive approach to
these bottom lines.
Second, we place the four bottom lines
around our four quadrant model in a way
that highlights specific relationships
between the bottom lines. For example,
each bottom line shares 2 or 3 forms of
capital as part of its constitution. This
enables an important form of integration
between all four bottom lines.
Together these 4 bottom lines
combine to form the MetaImpact
Framework.
For more information on Meta Integral and
their associated work see
www.metaintegral.org
4 Bottom Lines
Integral Evaluation

“The universe is composed of perspectives that you have taken in order
to play a Kosmic Game of chess with yourself. The Kosmos is composed
of sentient beings, each of whom is the one and only, nonlocal and
nondual, First Person to the perspectives arising as its reflections,
touching and loving its one and only Second Person, courting each and
every Third Person, all of whom are, in turn, the one and only First, who is
reading this right now. Your very own Original Face, the Face you had
before the Big Bang—the I AM that I AM—is still looking out through your
eyes, even here and now.
“Remember?”
“Well, if not, then you have slammed your foot down in the cascading
stream, and all around you has sprung up the AQAL matrix of your own
indigenous perspectives”
Ken Wilber

Key to an Integral approach to urban design
is the notion that although other aspects of
urban life are important, people (sentient
beings), as individuals and communities, are
the primary ‘purpose’ for making cities
thriveable. All other aspects (technology,
transport & infra-structure, health, education,
sustain-ability, economic development, etc.)
although playing a major part, are
secondary.
Urban Hub Series
These books are a series of presentations for
the use of Integral theory or an Integral
Meta-framework in understanding cities and
urban Thriveability.
Although each can stand alone, taken
together they give a more rounded
appreciation of how this broader framework
can help in the analysis and design of
thriveable urban environments.
Guides for Integrally Informed
Practitioners
The Guides for Integrally Informed
Practitioners (adjacent) cover much of the
theory behind the Integral Meta-framework
used in these volumes. For topics covered in
others volumes in this series see the
following page.

Urban Hub series
Pdf versions are gratis to view & download at:
https://www.slideshare.net/PauljvsSS
Can also be viewed at:
issuu.com/paulvanschaik
Hardcopies can be purchased from Amazon

UrbanHub1 A series of graphics from integralMENTORS integral
UrbanHub work on IMP and Thriveable Cities
This work shows the graphics from a dynamic deck
that accompany a presentation on Visions &
WorldViews and Thriveable Cities. The history of
the co-evolution of cities, evolving WorldViews,
Visions & Mindsets in urban Habitats and
technology is presented in an integral framework.
IntegralUrbanHub
DancingWithTheFuture
ThriveableCities
Integral theory is simply explained as it relates to
these themes see UH 2 & UH 3 for more detail.
This volume is part of an ongoing series of guides to
integrally inform practitioners.
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