Seed Eco-Home Curriculum

Intro

We are designing a rapid learning package for a 24 person swarm, as part of a 24 student cohort program. The design is intended to be fun, as each person collaborates for an extremely rapid sequencing of steps where each step is easier because so many people are doing it while learning from each other. In order to achieve a high build speed, each student must understand the design thoroughly and must grasp diverse tool use and technique across all aspects of the construction process. Here we can mix student who focus on build, with students who focus on world-changing. Each student receives diverse survey tutelage - a general audience presentation that does not dumb down the topics of study. Further, the aspirant is presented with hands-on rapid learning content on tools and design-build technique spanning all the trades. While building production homes, students also get an opportunity to orgnanize community-based build swarms that can take the form of workshops for external audiences, and real community builds in a spring break or vacation type of setting. Students collaborate on curriculum refinement, swarm design sessions, instructionals, and other assets that are useful to the general population to catch up to speed on our techniques.

Day 1-5. Rapid learning facility (RLF) - survey of all tools and modules, as bite size chunks. Real modules are made as part of this. Blueprints are used. Builds are documented as the RLF has a video capture setup. Audience here is people serious about building houses, up to the point that everyone in the world can build their own house, like animals other than humans. Day Day 6-10. Installation of modules built into a microhouse model. Day 11-15. Regular schedule begins - with 1 hour Edge of Knowledge Curriculum, starting with Possibility, Sublimation, Abundance, Counting, General Semantics, Moral Intelligence, Learning How to Learn (LTL), LTL Physics, LTL Engineering, LTL Design, LTL Psychology, and LTL History. Focus is on finding sources, assessing truth or validity.

• First day - concept presented, with Socratic dialogue afterwards, and an assignment exploring one's personal and political transformation.
• Second day - technical training. From counting to CAD to algorithm design etc.
• Third day lab - RLF session where we build something utterly amazing.
• Fourth day - field day - build a house.
• Fifth day - House Design lessons, and practice of the basic design principle. From layout to trim to driveway, to interior decor, to solar energy, etc.