Civilization Design

OSE's education program in civilization design equips the students with the skill set to design and build homes. Why is this called Civilization Design? Because if we gets the homes correct - as integrated, productive living spaces - then we can reinvent how civilization works. If homes produce food, energy, products - then they function like farms, factories in a new paradigm of production. Thus, they create culture - because a different type of productive culture is the result. In clusters, homes produce communities. As collections of communities, they create civilization.

In Civilization 101, students learn: how to learn and think; moral philosophy; mental models of civilization; and physics in the broad sense. In learning physics, students learn how to count.

The self-paced program of study results in individuals learning how the world works, physically and in terms of human constructs (ideas and models of reality). Graduates come out with the ability to build homes, communities, and enterprises at the scale of individual units to full settlements of thousands of people. The final project involves the construction of a new campus in 5 days, staring from a square mile of renewable energy resources.