Our Beliefs
i.
We believe the future of schools requires more than new curriculum, it requires new pedagogy.
The industrial revolution model of learning has become increasingly obsolete, aguably since the early 1900s. The coming machine learning wave coupled with an interconnected planet will shift the skills needed to connect, compete, and thrive. New pedagogy will need to develop soft skills such as curiosity, empathy, culture, and innovation versus content memorization.
Adult education and the life long learning spaces will begin to converge. Models such as the Harlem Children’s Zone and 2 Generation Learning will become wireframes for districts, and the school in many ways will serve as the local town hall.
Digital pedagogy, design sprint facilitation, and mindfulness will become essential tools for every educator.
ii.
We believe the role worldview plays in design has to be elevated.
As human centered design reaches larger scale adaption, the need to engage worldview in the design process becomes critical. For if we are to build interfaces across civilizations, an understanding of how different world populations engage value, risk, time, and purpose becomes essential. This first wave of A.I. has made clear the modern version of an age old design process flaw: “the blindspot of the coder becomes the blindspot of the machine.”
iii.
We believe COVID recovery, economic resiliency, and 22nd century prosperity are each interlocked with the state of public trust.
Over 70% of the citizenry of developed ations no longer trust their own institutions. In the United States, 1 out of every 4 meals is eaten alone in a car. Loneliness is becoming a public health issue globally. In this era of distrust, ow can we create engagement opportunities for people to connect and share their story, beginning with residents and government in meaningful conversations?
iv.
We believe that ancestral wisdom and science need each other for humanity to thrive.
Our modern narratives place ancestral wisdom and science on opposite ends of a binary.
By silo’ing these two we inhibit where we pull best practices from. If there is a uniquely human trait that is consistent across the 100,000+ years in our current form, it is the ability to introduce invention into existence. Culture, the Sacred, epistemology, and other original technologies hold 150,000 years of human best practices to draw from.
As we enter an era of the unknown, with threat and possibility at our doorstep, it is essential we remember this is the place where civilization leap has always occurred.