Maple Leaf Meme Project: Abstract Archive
Maple Leaf Meme Project:
Abstract Archive
This is a summary of Abstracts tracking the Progress of the
Maple Leaf Meme Project. Click on each title for a link to
the Abstract. Click on the title for each Abstract to be
linked to the full article or report. (Note: all reports,
articles are © Marilyn Hamilton, unless otherwise noted.)
1. Maple Leaf Memes: Project Definition
2. Spiral Flower Values Map of Abbotsford
3. Abbotsford Map and Data
4.
Integral Community: Lenses, Values and Indicators for
Maple Leaf Meme Maps
5.
Discovering Integral Capacities in the Global Village
Through Values Meta-Mapping
6. Why Meta-Map the City of the Future?
7.
Integral Metamap Creates Common Language for Urban Change
8. Summary of Maple Leaf Meme Data
9.
Maple Leaf Memes: Glimpses of Integral Canada 2005
10. Integral Framework for Community Learning 2006
1.
Maple Leaf Memes: Project Definition
Maple Leaf Memes (MLM) is a project to map Canada’s human
values systems using wholistic, evolutionary, developmental
integral spiral frameworks. It began with a pilot project
mapping community values, to be followed with a multi-phase,
multi-year series of goals:
• Stage 1: 2003
o Distribute report on prototype in Abbotsford
• Stage 2: 2003
o Locate potential collaborators, partners, participants
o Develop relationships with collaborators, partners,
participants
o Develop a research institute or research chair
o Obtain funding for research
o Obtain funding for maintenance of infrastructure
o Develop data gathering technology/ infrastructure
o Test data gathering infrastructure
• Stage 3: 2004
o Start to collect data nationally, semi-annually
o Develop Canada vital signs monitors
o Connect with global vital signs monitors globally
• Stage 4: 2005 +
o Refine, report out and apply Canada vital signs
monitor
o Research on applications in Canada
2003
2.
Spiral Flower Values Map of Abbotsford
This four colour, four quadrant, multi-level system map of
Abbotsford’s values, was developed for Abbotsford Community
Foundation, Retreat 2003 – Exploring a Vision for our
Community of the Future. It is based on Responses from a
random Survey of residents that asked questions about what
makes community work and what holds it back and how it could
improve. It should be noted that the “weightings” of the
values in the map have been normalized for workshop
purposes. The actual weightings are shown in the graphs in
Archive item 3.
2003
3. Abbotsford Map
and Data
This is a powerpoint summary of the Abbotsford Values map
showing the questions, the graphs of the actual responses
and their relationship to one another. A graph comparing
residents’ responses to the Board of Abbotsford Community
Foundation is also shown – plus the concept of how this
could be mapped on GIS.
2003
4. Integral Community: Lenses, Values and Indicators for
Maple Leaf Meme Maps
Abstract
This research into integral community mapping reports two
results. The first explores the literature and methodology
for mapping community values (at geo, bio and noetic levels
of reality) combining integral, spiral and living systems
frameworks. With indicators from five previous studies, the
combined meta-framework is proposed as a common language to
dynamically map community. The second result, reports on a
Pilot Project conducted in Abbotsford, BC, Canada, which
maps the noetic values of a random population sample using
integral and spiral frameworks. Findings demonstrate the
relationship between subjective, intersubjective, objective
and interobjective values at seven levels of complexity,
utilizing both qualitative and quantitative methods.
Comparisons are made between the values of the general
population and a selected group of community leaders. The
study concludes that the pilot project demonstrates how to
create a common language from data obtained from multiple
methodologies and sources. The study recommends the
expansion of the research to a bio-regional and national
level.
2003
5. Discovering Integral Capacities in the Global Village
Through Values Meta-Mapping
Abstract
Today’s City and the City of the Future are living systems
with bio-psycho-social-cultural capacities, that emerge from
the interaction of universal evolutionary processes. A four
quadrant, eight level meta-map creates a common language to
describe and understand the dynamic patterns and feedback
loops amongst these forces. The meta-map can be used by
regional planners, land-base and social planners and other
professional city management communities of practice.
2003
6. Why
Meta-Map the City of the Future?
Abstract
Today’s City and the City of the Future are living systems
with bio-psycho-social-cultural capacities, that emerge from
the interaction of universal evolutionary processes. A four
quadrant, eight level meta-map creates a common language to
describe and understand the dynamic patterns and feedback
loops amongst these forces. The meta-map can be used by
regional planners, land-base and social planners and other
professional city management communities of practice.
2004
7. Integral Metamap Creates Common Language for Urban Change
Abstract
Purpose: An integral metamap creates a common language to
dynamically track values-based urban change at multiple
levels of scale: individual, organization, neighbourhood,
city, bio-region and nation.
Methodology/Approach: In a pilot project, using an
ethnographic codebook, analysis of data collected from urban
residents via telephone interviews, discloses diverse
lenses, indicators and values at different levels of
complexity. A four quadrant metamap of the data reveals the
relationship between four sets of values: (subjective,
intersubjective, objective and interobjective) at eight
levels of complexity.
Findings: A review of taxonomies of indicators shows how
multiple existing data bases can be translated into a common
integral map. The pilot project demonstrates how the four
quadrant-based analysis and feedback methodology creates
vital signs monitors for what we value, want to change (stop
or improve), and how we can develop processes to influence
change.
Research Limitations: The scope of application is global,
and embedded in a paradigm shift to an integral worldview,
implying users share that worldview. However, the
methodology can be applied anywhere, on all scales.
Practical Implications: Conclusions show how metamapping
research data, planning and management, contributes to
improving choices, monitoring and influencing change and the
quality of urban life.
Originality/Value: This paper proposes a new integral common
language to frame and track urban change.
Keywords: integral, values, metamap, change,
quality-of-life, urban
Category: Research Paper
2004
8.
Summary of Maple Leaf Meme Data
At a workshop in Ottawa in October 2004, the following data
was gathered from multiple workgroups:
• Value graphs and memestacks for each of 10 Provinces (and
territories)
• Canada
At a workshop in Hollyhock Retreat, Cortez Island, BC, in
October 2004, the following data from Vancouver Sun
pre-municipal referendum reports was analysed by multiple
workgroups:
• Value graphs for five potential Vancouver wards
At a workshop in Vancouver in April 2005, the following data
was gathered from multiple workgroups:
• Vancouver graphs and memestacks
• Cascadia graphs and memestacks (Vancouver, Seattle,
Portland)
These graphs and memestacks are presented in a Powerpoint
summary.
Spiral Dynamics integral Confab, Powerpoint Presentation
2005
9. Maple Leaf Memes: Glimpses of Integral Canada 2005
At the end of 2005, with a year of global disasters behind
us we ask the question -- how well does Canada support the
basic needs of human life at home and respond to tsunamis,
hurricanes and earthquakes elsewhere? We are a nation of
immigrants – how well do we remember and honour our roots?
We are a nation of explorers and traders of both places and
ideas – how well do we protect the freedoms of expression
that drove us beyond old borders? We are a nation of peace,
order and good government – how able are we to ensure mutual
trust and respect? We are a nation of hewers of wood and
drawers of water – how effectively do we steward our raw
materials and produce our goods and services? We are a
nation of social safety nets -- how willing and able are we
to share our human and social capital with the rest of the
world? We are a nation of innovative caregivers – how
flexible are our healthcare systems? We are a nation of
environmentalists – how effectively do we steward our
nation’s natural resources? We are a nation of peacemakers -
what kind of example do we set to which the world might
aspire?
The Dance of the Maple Leaf Meme-lights calls forth from
Canada eight great capacities with which we can serve the
world. Each meme is like a colour from our Northern Lights,
whose hue radiates from a prism-set of values, each more
lustrous than the one preceding it.
…
Taken altogether the octet of values and the quintet of
layers of existence [Place, Plant, Phylum, Person, Planet]
define the boundaries of a new integral dance floor that is
just coming into view on this planet. The values and layers
provide criteria and give us powerful new lenses to glimpse
an Integral Canada – a Canada who can appreciate, capitalize
on and share an emerging, global-centric, evolutionary,
integrated, multi-perspectival, dynamic view of the world.
This article identifies glimpses of integral behaviour in
Canada.
2005
10. Integral Framework for Community Learning
Abstract
The Integral model recontexts the traditional sustainability
model by placing social and economic factors within the
context of the environment. This basically allows us to see
the relationship of the I/WE social experiences in
relationship to the IT/ITS economic actions. We can also see
the larger context of the environmental life conditions. The
directions of growth and complexity of learning for both
human experiences and human actions then becomes visible.
This short article summarizes the value of community
learning in four key worldviews.
2006
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