The School of the Possible manifesto
Putting a stake in the ground about what we stand for
Hi everyone,
I just finished the website for the School of the Possible. It’s a pretty basic 1-page manifesto that talks about the intentions and purpose behind creating a new school. I see this as a living document, subject to change, and would love to hear your thoughts, so please do leave a comment or reply to this email with any thoughts you might have.
"We believe that learning should be grounded in practice, learning by doing, and exploring the adjacent possible with proposals, probes, provocations, prototypes, and play."
From an old column I did for a science fiction magazine.
"SF has consistently championed out-of-the-box thinking as an ideal, but Neuringer and his students put that ideal into experimental practice, working on how to increase the number of different responses an animal makes in a given situation. Like the dolphin experiments from the 60s that you can still see demonstrated in documentaries, they directly rewarded not individual responses, but any response that had not happened before."
http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com/cgi-bin/mag.cgi?do=columns&vol=randall_hayes&article=013