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<blockquote>Modern science has reached a paradoxical position, in which the international community has acquired overwhelming amounts of knowledge by the means of ever-increasing specialization. However, those insights, oftentimes separated by discipline, leave us with little understanding to fight our current time’s structural disconnects (Scharmer 2013). We argue that life in the 21st century is one of dynamic complexity that asks for non-linear and organic thinking to engage in sustainable and effective problem-solving efforts, often called sustainable development (Holling 2001). At Olin College of Engineering, the disruption caused by the 2020 pandemic created a moment of campus-wide reflection that lead to an independently organized micro-campus of 15 students at a family-owned off-grid permaculture farm in North Carolina. This social enterprise showed a need for an integrated understanding of science and served as evidence that immersion into nature, sustainable living, and an intentional community can lead to a better understanding of our ecosystems and social-ecological systems. We see an opportunity in higher education to leverage our collective ability to create change and initiate social innovation by teaching an integrated, transdisciplinary understanding of science and opening up spaces and time for students to act upon emerging opportunities to contribute to and scale-up social innovation.</blockquote>[^Scharmer2013]^,[^Holling2001]

Why do we never design for ourselves. ? Why don't we apply Sustainable design project in projects to our living spaces. ? Why do our living spaces not allow for design interaction? Because they’re finished. Do we need unfinished environments that invite us to be modified? In the modern Western house, our environments start empty and are highly controlled. Everything that we add, change, or improve is an active decision that changes the untouched surfaces of our rooms. Every product that we buy to place in our rooms is a _perfectly_ designed solution to a problem. We are in full control. At a farm, in contrast, everything is messy at first, and one needs to make an active effort to bring satisfying structure and beauty into the world. I believe that the latter way of living comes closer to the character of the world we live in. Modern households are deceiving in their perfection, and don't invite for engagement.

From AlJazeera news: We need to go back to learning how to function as a society, people being together. Technology is not good or bad or neutral, is it what the intrinsic motivation behind it is. It’s a myth that’s that Data is something we have within us. Its value is created by the interest that companies are allowed to put into it.

goal setting and energy use[^Manning2009].</blockquote>[^Manning2009]

Hidden things control the system, especially where we don't have feedback loops.Where is the mailbox for all those frustrated students to voice their frustrations? Course evaluations are something quite different? Where is the course evaluation for students' experience for the institution, in which they live for four years?

There are so many meaningful group work insights and learning outcomes that arise from working on simple geometry with people - build a wall frame with timber. Make cuts that are the right size. Plan and build together. When we take group work to a more abstract level, the issue-points of groupwork group work also become more abstract, which makes it harder to act upon arising issues. To get to know your own working habits, styles of communication and planning, we don’t need complicated projects. Keep it simple! If it’s even then still tricky, that tells you more than a tricky project that becomes more tricky.