OSE Apprenticeship Curriculum
Executive Summary
We are recruiting the first, historic cohort of 24 students for the OSE Apprenticeship of 2025. This is a 4 year work-study program for Build-Design - with students completing functional proficiency in the 20 Builder Trades that it takes to build a modern, energy efficient house including a renewable energy system. In addition to the Build-Design track, we offer the Construction Management track, for graduates interested in running build crews engaged in rapid, modular construction. The unique feature is that the build-design school includes not only homes, but tools, machines, and materials involved in the house-build process. Bonus pay may include materials production, for optimizing the use of local and recycled material feedstocks. The learning style is integrated, interdisciplinary, and group-focused - where students learn in collaborative, supportive swarms. In-service learning is provided with annual volunteer trips of 2 week duraction. Graduation follows a final group Build-Design project at the scale of 240 full time collaborators. As such, a high level of collaborative literacy and character building is a specific goal. We spend about 50% of the time in building and 50% in learning. This includes learning the Architectures of Civilization, Learning How to Learn, and Learning How to Be a Human.
The 4 year program is a springboard for the OSE Civilization Design program, which builds upon core learnings from the Build-Design program for 4 more years of applied learning. Designed as a work-study opportunity where students practice what they are learning, the program is dedicated to rapid learning in systems design of integrated human ecotechnospheres. During the program, apprentices engage in design of ecotechnospheres and human institutions, with a final group project dedicated to prototyping an actual instance. Such as an [[Open Sector Enterprise, an innovative institution among Core Institutions of Humanity, or a living laboratory community such as a learning campus, ecoindustrial park, charter city, or special economic zone. The final group project involves the collaboration om a 1000-person scale project, designed over a semester and implemented over a period of 2 weeks.
