INCOMPLETE WORK IN PROGRESS - please contact: john@newschool futures

Mission

We exist as a think-tank and a pilot learning project.
We aim to develop an organisational framework that will develop and grow.
Membership is offered to learners, tutors, mentors, funders and other supporters in kind.
Learning activities and other relevant support services are normally offered free of charge.
We are a not for profit organisation that welcomes collaboration with other organisations.

We aim to broker learning partnerships that help the community.
Learning will be monitored mutual learning user agreement to support their
We admire Open Source initiatives (e.g. Wikipedia) that benefit from common ownership and collective creativity
We aim to develop fairer frameworks that inhibit exploitation of our work by non-contributors!Our Mission

To provide a creative hub and community-run Think-Tank for generating visions of the future.
To envision a learning framework that would promote a post-carbon, post-capitalist paradigm.
To advocate learning motivated by intrinsic benefits, rather than incentivised by grades or salaries.
To envision an academic system that is more autopoietic than allopoietic.
- i.e. one that more resembles living systems, rather than dead ones.
- i.e. one that without an externally-imposed purpose and is self-defining, self-maintaining.
To develop and actualise this vision using the auspices of Creative Commons and Share-alike.

Specialised study remains the default position for academic curricula in Higher Education.
As a result, the coordination of knowledge from across separate studies is given less attention.
The UK has reduced funding for creative, performative subjects in favour of specialist STEM subjects.
Research bodies (e.g. REF) support cross-disciplinary learning but this is not yet the predominant model.