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Thesis outline - resilience and dynamic complexity (view source)
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### How do we foster personal and collective resilience and create a fertile breeding ground for social innovation?
## Sustainability in future living - immersion into a regenerative lifestyle and intentional communities create an environment that leads to an integrated understanding of science through the fusion of knowledge, lived experience, mentorship, and connection with nature
### Farm experience, a social enterprise, serves as evidence for a needed integrated understanding of science (bio, chemistry, social sciences, physics) and natural pull for technical knowledge
- contextualized understanding of nature - we live next to a small creek? What does this energy and water mean for the ecosystem? How much energy can we extract with turbines?
- we don't need complicated engineering projects to learn about group work - let's start simple. We can learn a lot about group dynamics, our own tendencies, and the complexity of planning when we work on long-term simple projects such as building a wall that only requires rectangular cuts - when we work on complicated projects, the trickiness that arises from the group becomes abstract and hard to grasp
- why don't we ever design for ourselves? we are surprisingly bad at identifying our own needs and designing for our our wellbeing
### Pedagogy of the oppressed - why is it so hard to push for change within an institution?
#### Olin asked for progessive ideas for the fall semester 2020, none of the experimental proposals were accepted
- common reason: we didn't have the capacity - however, we did it anyway without any help
#### The power of rules and guidelines
- internet guidlines as an example for an institution's classist reflex to learning-hindering circumstances
- no politics allowed, no posters in hallways allowed - how cleanliness kills motivaiton to contribute in small pieces - only if it's academic it worth being presented
#### Once we settle down and build on our past success, we close the space for future innovation. How about Nomadic Education?
- students could travel from micro-campus to micro-campus
- easier to establish a relationship to more than one space
- multi-dimensional campus character, what kind of community do I want?
- more space for students to bless spaces with their own creativity
### Empowering students and community partners using inter-personal networks to leverage our collective ability to create change and social innovation - house building, off-grid technical systems, permaculture, open spaces for the youth to act upon opportunities and innovative ideas
### Models for financial independence that make use of opportunities for independence of the current time (off-grid living vs urban lifestyles, intentional communities, etsy, airbnb, thrift stores)