Cities Rising for a Regenerative World
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Cities Rising for a Regenerative World
Reframing the role of cities as Gaia’s Reflective Organs
This is a weeklong program January 11 - 15 convened by Integral City, Nest City, Ubiquity University and Humanity Rising ChatAction Group
Overview
Inspired by HR’s week of Bouncing Beyond to a Regenerative World convened in October 2020 by Ubiquity U and U International Cooperation and partners, this Cities Rising Week focuses on human systems at the scale of the city. We view “city” as the human habitat (or human hive) at scales from village to megalopolis and our definition of city embraces the ecoregion where it is located and that constrains it.
We intend our inquiry to complement the exploration of Bouncing Beyond to a Regenerative World, by providing the context and contribution cities can make to a Regenerative World.
Prior to the 2020 year of the pandemic, cities had become the habitats where more than 50% of humanity live – in the developed world more than 90%. This week will reframe cities from the bricks and mortar infrastructures of the visible city into a human system with consciousness, culture, behaviors and structures.
This is the Integral City – a fractal that lies on the trajectory of living human systems, stretching from the individual, to the collective, to the city, to the planet Gaia (person, people, place, planet).
This way of looking at the city assumes that it is a complex adaptive living system, evolutionary in its nature and integrative in its potential to serve the wellbeing of Gaia.
If we have learned anything in 2020, it is at the scale of the city where humans make life and death decisions and where people have the opportunities to thrive or waste. The overriding purpose of this week is to inquire how people serve the wellbeing of the city and how the city serves the wellbeing of people, while together we serve the wellbeing of Gaia.
THEME FOR THE WEEK
The overarching theme of the Cities week is to help you experience your city/community as a dynamic living system. This week-long exploration will offer a variety of lenses, tools and practices—and opportunities for you to reflect—that will enable you to best serve your city/community so that it can best serve you and together we can all serve the wellbeing of our planet, Gaia.
DAY 2021 | THEME, MESSAGE + GUIDING QUESTIONS |
Day 1
Mon Jan 11 |
AQtivating cities at scale
Cities thrive when we activate agency at scale · What is your learning edge? · How would you describe your learning edge? · Where is your learning edge? |
Day 2
Tue Jan 12 |
Living in cities as complex adaptive systems
Cities are living systems with consciousness and culture, in addition to behaviours and infrastructure · How do you experience the linear city? · How do you experience the city as a living system? · Where do you see the city as a living system coming alive? · How to amplify the city as a living system? · What happens when we act as if the city is a living system? |
Day 3
Wed Jan 13 |
Governing with life-cycle patterns
Cities are where we can practice governance with local conditions and needs in mind · What can the city learn from its eco-region? What are the universal principles that can guide / inform city life? · How is mutual trust and respect core to civility? · How does (explicit) governance shift from hierarchy primarily to hierarchy and self-organizing? · What minimal critical structure is needed to support self-organizing in the city? Under what conditions? When? · The role of (city) government is shifting… from what to what? |
Day 4
Thur Jan 14 |
Practicing mutual agency
Cities are living systems of mutual agency, a survival skill. A diversity of practices enables us to serve our cities well so they serve us well in return · What behaviours of mine enable or disable the agency of others? · What are the tensions I experience in the city around me? How do they indicate the improvements I wish to make to the city? · What is my calling in service to the city? How do I trust that others will do what I am not doing? · How/why is mutual trust and respect core to the quality of your life in the city? |
Day 5
Fri Jan 15 |
Integrating coherence for regenerativity
Cities are vehicles for regeneration when we take responsibility for our relationship with the ecoregion · What experiments are you conducting? Who do you experiment with? · What feedback channels do you use? Could you use? · What is regenerating in you? o Survive, connect, regenerate o Master code o Scale · How does culture impact context and feedback to give us information re coherence? · Why/how is regeneration important to the city? |
GUIDING PRINCIPLES, ROLES & FACILITATION
In designing our week we have set 4 guiding principles:
- Enable various levels of participation
- Enable agency at scale
- Display and integrate diversity of faces and experiences
- Make the community system visible to itself
We have also defined 4 Roles for each day.
# Convenors
- Welcome the assembly
# Hosts
- Host and guide the process / conversation
- Add insight and perspective
- Reflective practitioners
- Demonstrate the practice of reflecting in action
- Share their reflection publicly, and relevant stories
- Focus reflective practitioner
- Share ways of thinking about cities
- Reflect on the reflection
- Engage in discussion about how “a model” can be used in practice, in the city
Behind the scenes we also have support from: 7 Vortex, meshwork visualizers, etc.
Facilitation for each day will use the Guiding Principles and include:
for the chat function to stop, to allow for personal reflection
explicit opportunities to for the chat community ideas to be integrated with those of the guests
post-session- facilitated gathering where people can meet each other, find people with similar interests, in the same part of the world, language, etc. (see ChatAction below)
ChatAction Group - please join the conversation by adding your ideas and questions using shared document TBD
PRESENTERS
Hosts:
Conveners | Org | URL | Other | Comment | Skills |
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Jim Garrison | Founder President of Ubiquity University and Humanity Rising | Ubiquity University | Humanity Rising: A Global Solutions Summit. “Transforming conversations that matter into action that makes a difference." | UbiVerse Social Platform | Change Maker |
Marilyn Hamilton | Faculty, Ubiquity U, Findhorn College, Royal Roads U, U Victoria, Fielding U, Adizes Grad School | Integral City Meshworks | Author Integral City Book Series for the Human Hive:
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Marilyn's Slides From Video of HRDay 56 | Community-Building Creativity Green-Economics Innovation Research Sacred Activist Spiritual-Awakening Strategic-Planning Systems-Design Teaching Facilitation Writing Content Creation Ecological-Literacy Sustainability Teacher Seminar-Leader Visioning |
Beth Sanders | Presenter of HRDay 56 Healthy Human Habitats | Beth Sander's Website | Book: Nest City: How Cities Serve Citizens and Citizens Serve Cities exploring our evolutionary relationship with cities | Works with citizens, city governments, businesses, and community organizations. She helps them hear each other, make better cities. | City-Making Integral City Leadership and Team Building Public Speaking Social Habitat Spiral Dynamics Teaching Facilitation |
Conveners | Org | URL | Other | Comment | Skills |
Presenters :
NAME | Organisation / Expertise | COUNTRY |
Hani Quan | Life Coach &Social Entrepreneur | Canada |
Jorge Garza | Future Cities ,McConnell Foundation | |
Hugo Araujo | Founder 7Vortex | Mexico & Belgium |
Taina Ketola | Public Sector Specialist | Finland |
Andres Malave | Cultural Consultant | Nantes ,France |
Mark McCaffrey | Founder Co-Focal ECOS mAuthor Climate Smart & Energy Wise,Initiator Powers of 10 Framework | Italy |
Stanley Nyoni | The Natural Step Consultant Africa | Sweden |
Paddy Pampallis | Founder Integral Coach Africa | |
Raji Jayasinghe | Ubiquity U Youth Initiatives | Sri Lanka |
Luis Camargo | Biomimicry Expert | Columbia |
Katerina Zalamova | Smart Cities Expert | |
Lev Gordon | Co-Founder of Living Cities Russia Association | |
MiraMichelle Jones | Founder The Sacred Female Rising Institute ,Shaman | Seoul Korea |
Tesoc Hah | Architect | |
Soni Dasmohapatra | ||
Keren Tang | Public Health Professional ,Participatory City,McConnell Foundation | |
Taisa Mattos | Global Ecovillage Network | Brazil |
Indra Adnan | Journalist, Founder Alternative UK | |
Shweta Srisastav | Design Researcher, Architect | |
Julian Baller | ED Co-Creating Europe | |
Yene Assegid | International Coach | Ghana , africa |
Vandana Shiva | Author Earth Democracy | India |
Read about the ChatAction AfterChat here.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
- Visit How to Participate on Zoom.
- Read about the Interactive ChatAction AfterChat here.
- When you register you get the Zoom link, Meeting ID and Call in Numbers (you can call in).
- Each Zoom live webinar will have a maximum capacity of 500 participants. If you are not able to join on Zoom, we will be live streaming here on the UbiVerse and on:
- UU Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UbiquityUniversityOnline
- UU YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/UbiquityUniversity
- AwakeTV: https://www.awaketvnetwork.live/humanity-rising-channel
CATEGORIES
City, Ecoregion, Community, EducationSpirit & Soul, IndustryEconomics & Finance, eChange & Innovation, Sustainability, Regenerativity