OSE Campus

Introduction

The physical build goal of OSE is to produce a replicable city center, in the form of an educational-research facility - the OSE Campus. There is no modern analogue of this, but it can be described best as a combination of existing institutions. It is a mash-up of the following:

• University - an institution of learning, except that quality education is provided to develop practical skills along with critical thinking ability
• Factory - a center of production, except by flexible fabrication, immersion hands-on training, and social production
• Farm - except not a factory farm, but a Factor e Farm - where we transcend norms and produce integrated, regenerative ecosystems that give birth to advanced civilization
• Lunar colony - an autonomous settlement except that it's on Earth, where infrastructure is built and maintained with few imports, but instead - with a predominance of local resources
• News station - in that it broadcasts its developments continuously to educate the public about its cultural creative work
• Sanatarium - where people are rejuvenated, driven sane, and inspired in a life-giving environment

The enterprise model for the above is based on productive enterprise that includes education and production, while developing 8 Forms of Capital.

The students will be known as OSE Fellows.

Unique Features

The unique features of the OSE Campus by 2015 standards is that the entire facility is an experimental autonomous microstate. This means that on as little land as a 40 acre farm, a Dunbar's number of people can survive and thrive at a modern standard of living - completely from abundant local air, water, rocks, sunlight, and plants. This is the BHAG experiment that we are pursuing. The curriculum, research, public workshop, and production activity at the OSE Campus will be designed to fulfill this goal, down to production of aluminum from clay and silicon from sand. OSE's goal is to achieve the first example of such a community by 2025.