Lesson Plan 1 BSU LA471
Lesson Plan 1 for John Motloch's LA471 at Ball State University. Feb 2014. Prepared by Chris Reinhart for Open Source Ecology
Background
John's class has been researching a region of the world and identifying a best practice of that culture's relationship with the land. They have been reading the books Emergence and Full Planet, Empty Plates.
Intro
Sit in a circle of desks.
Everyone take 5 minutes to visually represent on an 8.5x11" the region they have been learning about, and the the best practice of people engaging place. Help me out (as my geography is not perfect) and include a thumbnail sketch of the world map with where your region is.
Each person, using their visual diagram, give the 90-second, "elevator pitch," version of their first project, learning about best practices of people engaging place.
The teacher participates in the game, too, and I will do my diagram and 90-second introduction about the MicroHouse, as it is my current main project.
OSE and the GVCS
The best introduction to OSE is, of course, Marcin's TED talk. If John has already showed them the TED talk, we'll watch this video on open source philosophy, instead.
Open Source Philosophy: https://www.facebook.com/OpenSourceEcology/posts/10201828073120674?stream_ref=10 Marcin's TED talk: https://www.facebook.com/OpenSourceEcology/posts/10201833781743386?stream_ref=10
Introduce the OSE wiki.
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/
Creative Commons Licenses
10 students in class. Break them into 3 groups. Have each group look at the Creative Commons website and learn about the different types of licenses that can be used. Have them talk about them amongst themselves and just describe out loud in their own words. Share any initial reactions.
Home Page https://creativecommons.org/
Licenses Page https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
License Choosing Tool Page https://creativecommons.org/choose/
Come back as a circle. Discuss the different types of CC licenses and make sure that everyone understands them.
Mention roots of Creative Commons, the GNU/GPL and BSD licenses. Andrew Katz in "Authors and Owners," . p66 of Open Design Now. http://opendesignnow.org/index.php/article/authors-and-owners-andrew-katz/
Why OSE does not support the CC-NC license. https://www.facebook.com/OpenSourceEcology/posts/10201966429259491?stream_ref=10
Possibilitarians and Realitarians
Quotes from Marleen Strikker in the Introduction of Open Design Now. http://opendesignnow.org/index.php/article/introduction-marleen-stikker/
Comments from students on the implications and possibilities of an open source world.
Even the Fed has recommended the possibilitarian approach :) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/05/patent-reform-economists_n_2623537.html
My background and why I was hired to do the MicroHouse
.Pdf slideshow of my own building experiments and other collaborative projects I have worked on, culminating most recently in the MH.
Discuss reinvention of the barn raising: elements of open collaboration, granular documentation, parallel processing, prefabrication, open source machines working in harmony to minimally process materials from the land.
Possibilities for Class
John and I have discussed different ways of collaborating. Initially, we thought that groups would create master plans for FeF.
- This seems limiting, as much of the planning for FeF has already been done by Marcin, Catarina, and me.
- Share current master plan https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152595104431562&set=a.10151381815921562.574965.66469461561&type=1&stream_ref=10
- We would still love ideas and comments about the FeF, though.
As a more interesting design exercise, what if the ideas of affordable access to the GVCS were incorporated into your design ideas for a contemporary, rural village in the region of the world you have explored?
- The complete GVCS allows humans to process raw materials from the land into any piece of technology that you can imagine.
Feedback from students about these ideas.