The Future of New Urbanism: transforming communities, reinventing cities. A presentation to the City Planning Forum: Seoul South Korea, September 6, 2006 Frank Catanzaro AC/UNU Millennium Project The Future of New Urbanism: transforming communities, reinventing cities. ABSTRACT This paper will focus on the future of Urban Regeneration, specifically, one leading edge movement called New Urbanism. [...]
Although the bulk of psychological research continues to focus on the negative uses of the Internet, i.e., cyberbullying and the cyberbully, the total number of people engaging in acts of digital altruism and other forms of pro-social digital activism exceeds 100 million (Klisanin, 2011). Who are these people? While there has been little investigation in this area, Klisanin (2010a) theorized that the most dedicated among them represent the first incarnation of a new archetype: the cyberhero. Embodying a transpersonal sense of identity, as ideal forms, the cyberhero represents individuals motivated to act on behalf of other people, animals, and the environment using the Internet and digital technologies in the peaceful service of achieving humanity’s highest ideals and aspirations, e.g., world peace, social justice, environmental protection, and planetary stewardship. To investigate this theory, a self-report questionnaire was designed and distributed on-line to individuals engaging in digital altruism, a form of digital activism considered to result in benefit to others. The results support earlier theory, suggesting that the cyberhero is a viable embodied archetype worthy of further investigation.
Dr. Mika Mannermaa FROM CHAOS INTO GLOBAL CULTURAL COHERENCE (An invited article for the “New Renaissance”, Spring 1997) Why is it so that nowadays we speak so much about globalization, chaos, and uncertainty? Is the world different from earlier times, or is our understanding of it different? Or maybe both are true? It has often [...]
ABSTRACT: We stand today between epochs. The positivist and reductionist tools of the old epoch surround us with myriad, obscure, but well studied, fragments of a deconstructed universe. This is true not only in the physical sciences but in the social, economic and political sciences as well. The old tools have become obstacles to progress, and, while the tools of the next epoch, offer great promise for leading us into a new era of clarity, meaning and purpose, they are unfamiliar, and often times at odds with our former sense of common sense. These new tools are not notional “flavor of the day” constructs but have slowly emerged over the last century, from the researches and insights of what are now sometimes referred to collectively as the “New Sciences”. Complexity science, one of the latest of these new emerging sciences, brings with it a new perspective on our world, seeing it not as atomized fragments, but as nested, and interrelated patterns of Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS), while the Science of Consciousness, may hold the keys to helping us overcome existing obstacles,and recognize new opportunities. We will selectively explore the implications to futures research of these two new sciences and conclude by offering a brief overview of a new methodology derived in part from the frameworks and perspectives presented here.
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The Future of New Urbanism: transforming communities, reinventing cities. A presentation to the City Planning Forum: Seoul South Korea, September 6, 2006 Frank Catanzaro AC/UNU Millennium Project The Future of New Urbanism: transforming communities, reinventing cities. ABSTRACT This paper will focus on the future of Urban Regeneration, specifically, one leading edge movement called New Urbanism. [...]
Although the bulk of psychological research continues to focus on the negative uses of the Internet, i.e., cyberbullying and the cyberbully, the total number of people engaging in acts of digital altruism and other forms of pro-social digital activism exceeds 100 million (Klisanin, 2011). Who are these people? While there has been little investigation in this area, Klisanin (2010a) theorized that the most dedicated among them represent the first incarnation of a new archetype: the cyberhero. Embodying a transpersonal sense of identity, as ideal forms, the cyberhero represents individuals motivated to act on behalf of other people, animals, and the environment using the Internet and digital technologies in the peaceful service of achieving humanity’s highest ideals and aspirations, e.g., world peace, social justice, environmental protection, and planetary stewardship. To investigate this theory, a self-report questionnaire was designed and distributed on-line to individuals engaging in digital altruism, a form of digital activism considered to result in benefit to others. The results support earlier theory, suggesting that the cyberhero is a viable embodied archetype worthy of further investigation.
Dr. Mika Mannermaa FROM CHAOS INTO GLOBAL CULTURAL COHERENCE (An invited article for the “New Renaissance”, Spring 1997) Why is it so that nowadays we speak so much about globalization, chaos, and uncertainty? Is the world different from earlier times, or is our understanding of it different? Or maybe both are true? It has often [...]
At the limina of complexity and consciousness
ABSTRACT: We stand today between epochs. The positivist and reductionist tools of the old epoch surround us with myriad, obscure, but well studied, fragments of a deconstructed universe. This is true not only in the physical sciences but in the social, economic and political sciences as well. The old tools have become obstacles to progress, and, while the tools of the next epoch, offer great promise for leading us into a new era of clarity, meaning and purpose, they are unfamiliar, and often times at odds with our former sense of common sense. These new tools are not notional “flavor of the day” constructs but have slowly emerged over the last century, from the researches and insights of what are now sometimes referred to collectively as the “New Sciences”. Complexity science, one of the latest of these new emerging sciences, brings with it a new perspective on our world, seeing it not as atomized fragments, but as nested, and interrelated patterns of Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS), while the Science of Consciousness, may hold the keys to helping us overcome existing obstacles,and recognize new opportunities. We will selectively explore the implications to futures research of these two new sciences and conclude by offering a brief overview of a new methodology derived in part from the frameworks and perspectives presented here.