10 Ways Developers Gain from Spiral Dynamics integral (SDi)

Gains for :  Stakeholders, Tenants/Owners, Developers, Urban Centres

1.       SDi is natural – development practices developed with SDi natural design principles enable the natural flow of infrastructure services to beneficiaries (tenants/owners, urban centres)

2.       SDi transcends and includes multiple development modalities – stakeholders can systematically build upon and re-frame their connections to people, space and place ( or self, others and the world) as they respond to SDi influenced development

3.       SDi is a framework of development frameworks – stakeholders are attracted to co-develop strategies for benefiting from and integrating ever complexifying development opportunities, information, relationships and collaborations

4.       SDi builds capacity – it offers a way of seeing the world that expands with the vision of the stakeholders, developer and urban context and stretches everyone’s views in a natural, self-interested evolutionary way

5.       SDi is based on research – the approach to development as a complex adaptive response to meeting the needs of human systems in a natural way is flexible for multi-cultural, trans-cultural, and global cultural development environments

6.       SDi is a natural design tool for developers – it provides a human systems framework to create appropriate service and infrastructure delivery modes, practices and collaboration opportunities

7.       SDi presents four development lenses: bio/psycho/cultural/social – developers can use these four lenses to organize and deliver infrastructure and services, develop relationships and offer information to multiple stakeholders and environments

8.       SDi gives developers a tool to relate to the (often differing) perspectives of developers, stakeholders, families, individuals and urban organizations – developers can build bridges between stakeholders, development environments, urban organizations and themselves and vice versa

9.       SDi offers a framework of multi-sectoral development frameworks that embraces horizontal, vertical and adaptive conditions – this enables flexibility and resilience as well as coherent infrastructure development for stakeholders in a variety of life conditions and development environments

10.   SDi provides a multi-disciplinary platform for organizing development, partnering and urban organization, to expand capacity and improve efficiency and effectiveness at all levels of scale – this enables strategic, accountable and systemic development with paybacks for all development stakeholders

Where is SDi being used in Development & Planning?  What’s Working LEED Building – LA, Boulder; Ottawa City Emergency Planning; University of Manitoba Urban Planning; University of Tennessee School of Architecture; Westlake, Texas; Grapevine Texas

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