Wen I. Chang and Rule #9

I was  delighted to meet another Networked Economy visionary at the ALIS show last week :  Wen I. Chang, founder and president of San Francisco-based Atman Hospitality Group, Inc., a green hotel developer of properties such as the GAIA Napa Valley Hotel in American Canyon, California. 

He puts a new twist on relationship-relevant Rule #9 of the Networked Economy; Chang uses the technology of architecture (“Architecture is frozen music,” said he) to bend non-supple materials and to help people relate to a deeper part of themselves.  Chang told me Atman, his company’s name, means “the sea of God in our heart, which is our true nature.”  

The man is forthright about his vision and mission.  “Why green?” he asked the audience attending the ALIS  panel on “How to Develop a Green Hotel.” 

“The collective human consciousness is emerging up, and it’s showing here.” “We try to shift the mindset of separateness to oneness with nature,” Chang continued.  “To create the new experience, we offer the emotional connection.” 

Chang believes the true green hotel expresses the harmonious duality of “left brain reason and right brain rhyme”. 

“When we create this environment, the customer dares to dream back to their true nature.  Then the hotel is no longer just a place to stay; it becomes a place to journey and to dream.  A place, a journey, and a dream.”  

Green panelists Bill Reed, Wen Chang, Mike Freed and Marty Collins.

It’s refreshing to see this visionary interpretation of the generally fast-paced, techno-heavy expressions of the Networked Economy.

Thank you, Mr. Chang.