EDUCATION DESIGN LAB
Sourced Design supports those seeking to radically redesign education from its core. The Education Design Lab is a place where participants can experiment together and support one another, while also building a body of research in vitality-centered educational design through their case studies.
The Lab happens every trimester at Springhouse (fall, winter, and summer) and consists of three 2-hour workshops (described below), practice work, and peer mentoring in between workshops. Participants must sign up for the whole series as they are progressive in nature. Though workshops will be recorded, it is strongly encouraged to attend in person virtually.
The Education Design Lab gives users the support they need by offering practices to guide them, and a design community to learn from, and create with. The practices are grounded in living systems principles and the experience of an intergenerational community committed to reimagining education at its foundation for the past seven years. Through Education Design Labs at Springhouse, where the Sourced Design was first articulated, designers engage in a co-creative design process that not only supports them, but furthers the development of the design itself. Practice work and peer mentoring will be included to allow for participant’s continued learning in between our times together. We hope you will join us.
EDUCATION DESIGN LAB DATES
All labs will be held from 10am-12pm EST
Cohort 1: Fall Dates: October 10th, November 14th, December 12th
Cohort 2: Winter Dates: January 9th, February 13th, March 20th
Cohort 3: Summer Dates: June 19th, July 17th, August 14th
EDUCATION DESIGN LAB WORKSHOPS
FACING EDUCATION:
WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH EDUCATION AND WHY?
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. ~ James Baldwin
In this lab we will explore the challenges we face with our current educational design as a whole. We will explore the core values that inform how and why we educate, and the impact of our current educational design. We will examine what is not working as we prepare to build new structures that respect and cultivate vitality and freedom. We will explore the work of scholars like Dr. Bettina Love, bell hooks, and others as we look to the past to inform the future.
TAKING THE HOUSE DOWN:
REDESIGNING EDUCATION FROM CENTER
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. ~ Buckminster Fuller
In this lab we will use Springhouse Community School as a case study as we get to know the guiding practices of the Sourced Design and how we might begin to put them into practice in ways that respect our communities and place. We will also explore research and scholarship in the field of living systems principles including the work of Dr. Meg Wheatley, Terry Irwin, and others as we learn how we can apply the wisdom of the Earth to educational design.
SUSTAINING CHANGE:
CREATING NETWORKS FOR CREATIVITY AND COURAGE
“If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward” -Martin Luther King Jr.
In this lab we will focus on how we must strengthen ourselves and our networks to sustain the change that is needed to redesign education. We will learn practices that help us to live with an experimentation mindset including cultivating inner resources, strengthening community building and Earth-based practices, and learning how to adapt to feedback and navigate the ambiguity and surprise that emerges in the design process. Participants will leave this lab with the support of an ongoing design community; one that will grow throughout the years as these design principles are practiced in communities around the world. The Sourced Design itself will grow and evolve as we create a path forward through educational design rooted in vitality and freedom.
Investment: Through these labs, you will participate in a design experiment, not only when it comes to redesigning education, but also in what it means to financially support this educational design work. Education is not a commodity. It is a relationship.
There are many ways to invest in this Lab and in its home, Springhouse. Education Design Labs as a whole cost roughly $500 with all expenses included. This rough estimate includes costs of the two facilitators who plan and facilitate the labs; overhead expenses associated with Springhouse, where the labs are held like utilities, registration administration, and more; technological costs; and marketing and communications expenses. Please invest what you can, from your commitment to fully showing up to the Lab to any financial amount that you can, and perhaps if able, invest to support others who cannot invest with money. We are grateful and we trust that this work will be supported because the world needs it.
Sourced Design supports those seeking to radically redesign education from its core. The Education Design Lab is a place where participants can experiment together and support one another, while also building a body of research in vitality-centered educational design through their case studies.
The Lab happens every trimester at Springhouse (fall, winter, and summer) and consists of three 2-hour workshops (described below), practice work, and peer mentoring in between workshops. Participants must sign up for the whole series as they are progressive in nature. Though workshops will be recorded, it is strongly encouraged to attend in person virtually.
The Education Design Lab gives users the support they need by offering practices to guide them, and a design community to learn from, and create with. The practices are grounded in living systems principles and the experience of an intergenerational community committed to reimagining education at its foundation for the past seven years. Through Education Design Labs at Springhouse, where the Sourced Design was first articulated, designers engage in a co-creative design process that not only supports them, but furthers the development of the design itself. Practice work and peer mentoring will be included to allow for participant’s continued learning in between our times together. We hope you will join us.
EDUCATION DESIGN LAB DATES
All labs will be held from 10am-12pm EST
Cohort 1: Fall Dates: October 10th, November 14th, December 12th
Cohort 2: Winter Dates: January 9th, February 13th, March 20th
Cohort 3: Summer Dates: June 19th, July 17th, August 14th
EDUCATION DESIGN LAB WORKSHOPS
FACING EDUCATION:
WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH EDUCATION AND WHY?
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. ~ James Baldwin
In this lab we will explore the challenges we face with our current educational design as a whole. We will explore the core values that inform how and why we educate, and the impact of our current educational design. We will examine what is not working as we prepare to build new structures that respect and cultivate vitality and freedom. We will explore the work of scholars like Dr. Bettina Love, bell hooks, and others as we look to the past to inform the future.
TAKING THE HOUSE DOWN:
REDESIGNING EDUCATION FROM CENTER
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. ~ Buckminster Fuller
In this lab we will use Springhouse Community School as a case study as we get to know the guiding practices of the Sourced Design and how we might begin to put them into practice in ways that respect our communities and place. We will also explore research and scholarship in the field of living systems principles including the work of Dr. Meg Wheatley, Terry Irwin, and others as we learn how we can apply the wisdom of the Earth to educational design.
SUSTAINING CHANGE:
CREATING NETWORKS FOR CREATIVITY AND COURAGE
“If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward” -Martin Luther King Jr.
In this lab we will focus on how we must strengthen ourselves and our networks to sustain the change that is needed to redesign education. We will learn practices that help us to live with an experimentation mindset including cultivating inner resources, strengthening community building and Earth-based practices, and learning how to adapt to feedback and navigate the ambiguity and surprise that emerges in the design process. Participants will leave this lab with the support of an ongoing design community; one that will grow throughout the years as these design principles are practiced in communities around the world. The Sourced Design itself will grow and evolve as we create a path forward through educational design rooted in vitality and freedom.
Investment: Through these labs, you will participate in a design experiment, not only when it comes to redesigning education, but also in what it means to financially support this educational design work. Education is not a commodity. It is a relationship.
There are many ways to invest in this Lab and in its home, Springhouse. Education Design Labs as a whole cost roughly $500 with all expenses included. This rough estimate includes costs of the two facilitators who plan and facilitate the labs; overhead expenses associated with Springhouse, where the labs are held like utilities, registration administration, and more; technological costs; and marketing and communications expenses. Please invest what you can, from your commitment to fully showing up to the Lab to any financial amount that you can, and perhaps if able, invest to support others who cannot invest with money. We are grateful and we trust that this work will be supported because the world needs it.