We have 1 year to create Trustville’s primary school. As from 2012-2020 the first kids should be virtually on it, testing it. If successful virtually, we can have it literally build by 2020. Crowd sourced without a problem.

How will learning processes and invading technologies be best combined to reach the 1.000 goals demanded by teachers, parents and pupils?

As Marieke Kitzen also pointed out in my first post; Sir Ken Robinson latest animation by RSA shows ‘the pain‘:

What I figured out by now; teachers, parents AND children demand a revolution. Probably also the first time in history.

Reading this, do YOU have an overview of;

1. best practice primary schools 2010.
2. new method schools recently started.
3. role of technology and (digital) content in primary schools 2010-2020.

- If nobody has answers…  How will we learn from best practice and mistakes to build Trustville primary school?

- Maybe we do not need an answer, maybe we should just start to experiment somehow. Just one groundrule; if an idea/experiment does not work, participating kids shouldn’t be damaged for life.

- If you do have an answer, we promise we will use it to design the 2012-2020 Primary School, and your name will be on one of the first real bricks in 2020. Will the first virtual one be in Trustville in a year? Mayor?

So let’s start step by step, it’s NOT about money, it’s about focus in whatever profession you are, see how your profession relates to these elements. When you find your relation with the elements, answers, you will also see which way is interesting to go next in your profession, in your career, for your company or organization. Why? If many of us relate to the elements in personal or corporate way, all things get simply more related; interesting opportunities will easier cross your path, energy flows become more efficient and you will have more time left to pursue the things you thought you would never have time for again.

So in Trustville, from my perspective, it’ll be about finding time to start in your own profession relating to the elements, first in common sense, later more specialized detailed related to your work processes.

What about your day to day job, there are only 4 everlasting elements interacting with eachother, can you trace them in your products or services you work in?

Paul

Our Context. Our Roots. Sometimes it is all connected. We try to understand something, we meet with like minded, and we design as a means to reach our goal. In these times, for the individual it is far more interesting to think deep and find his or her added value in the bigger picture. Once you understand the whole a bit, you see some empty spaces, you have the vision to look for your own place.

In small tribes, this idea is simple; if you did not master a complementary tribal survival or luxury skill, you are a burden to the community. In the animal cultures this principle still prevails. In human culture, yes, we have evolved to create carbon driven tools and have cheap labor abroad, so we can afford ourselves not to abandon our sick and less fortunate. Though today also the healthy and fortunate behave like the tribe should take care of him or her. Make sure there is a job, make sure there is food, make sure there is a roof above our heads.

And so today we start to commonly panic. We freeze. We distrust as the Trustville community is motivated upon into existence. Our job is at stake, so is our home and without a nearby supermarket we do not know how to survive. Aiming to hold on tight on what we still can hold on to, our primal instinct has awaken; I will take care of myself and my loved ones, no matter what it takes. You see it currently starting in many companies, many governments, fallback hoods, and we all see no way out… yet.

As long as humans have been able to understand the patterns in our history, primal instinct (much stronger than community values) always prevailed. Me, my family, my loved ones above the rest. Us and them in primary needs crisis; our most simple primary school history lesson.

We know this, and we have all the means to communicate and collaborate on local and global scale, why do we still freeze and only dream about a great future ahead of us? Some governments and so communities in the world understand again, it is time, time to listen to the right brained who have the complementary skill to see the whole, first in abstracts, later in detail together with the left brained. These regions are slowly finding a new balance. Regions who do not understand and not use or abuse the complementarity of minds, are meeting on swamps, design till their last breath tools which are unable to keep up with the needs of place and time.

Spaceship Earth, today it is October 28th, 2010. Let this be our little manifest;

We all know all is within one atmosphere, one nature. we living things have a point of view, a horizon, coming together in plant, animal and human cultures to survive and possibly live in luxury. We will try again to understand you, than we will meet in little groups, than to design meaningful solutions with the best complementary skills. We believe it is possible as many of us are beyond the ‘well-having ego’ cycle of this century. We trained ourselves to think with a free and clear mind and go beyond the easy fulfillment of discussing discussions. We know we need to be radical, we will play the game of redesign design itself exactly one of your solar cycles from today. In one year from now you are on the same spot from the sun; we played the game, collected the data, made choices, finished our story, reached the highest level. If we fail, a simple ‘game over’ message will do. To quote a famous wolf clan leader; you have all the time in the world, and we don’t. Just reboot without us.

That the 6 elements may be with us

Have a safe sun trip this year!

Big hug,

A small tribe in one of your jungles.

I came across this 2200 years old line:  “There is no growth, there is no death, there is only mixture, there is only change, of four everlasting elements”. Then I reminded your passions @TED, then I realized I want to be able to send my toddler of 18 months one day to one of your inspired ScienceHostels… So I had two options about one minute ago;

a. I hope for the best, the Lisi hype will mature into great places on great locations.

b. I just start as guinea pig C, helping the NEXT generation to realize some. Here is a mental image for 2016,

Anything like this already starting up by you or others I should meet?

Take care,

regards,

Paul

When he published the idea on a website that he build in 24 hours, people started to tweet about it and within a short amount of time the New York Post gave the ambitious inspirator a phonecall. Now let’s be honest to say that such a thing never happens to us simple mortals.

With the size of this project and the fact that he couldn’t even afford a ticket to fly to New York, you can imagine his hesitation to persevere. But he did. He partnered up and gathered the money to buy the ticket by making art himself. It was a great succes. He sold these cardboard artworks online and headed to NYC  to create a teambase there. When he and a partner left NYC, they left with some businessdeals, some cool businesscards, a couple of articles published on some blogs and an American fanbase existing of more than 300 fans. Back in Amsterdam they’re now busy organising a TS2AS party on a hidden location in NYC. You can figure the exact place out by following their Facebook and Twitterpage. It’s a pitty I live in Amsterdam and a shame I can’t even draw a simple fish correctly.

Using social media smartly and believing in himself Justus is determined  to turn Times Square into Art Square. Don’t we just love this new selfmade and self-assured generation?!

Oh give me a break.

I am bored.

In 5 years I have to go to a University. Why? Why pay all my allowance for an expensive 3×3 room in a crowded grey city, so I can be at 9AM in college? Why can’t I be 1 year with my soulmates in the mountains, I can learn the same as in a city using my iPad and internetcard! I think even more. I would invite the smartest best teachers some time to come over. To relax and to tell us a bit about a subject which matters. Would be cheaper than citylife anyways…

… to be continued

In fifteen shops in the Bijlmer district it’s possible to pay with the Bijlmer euro. By stripping the RFID tag out of a Amsterdam travel tickets and sticking it on a Euro the physical movement of the ‘Bijlmer euro’, from store to store, can be traced, and mapped. Most of the shops in the Bijlmer district are divided by ethnic diversity. The introduction of the Bijlmer euro should break this pattern and stimulate the economic, social and cultural networks.

The inspiration of the project comes from similar projects in other countries. In places like Totnes, Lewes, Stroud and Brixton in Great-Brittain the government uses a local currency to stimulate the local economy. These projects are the inspiration for the project in Amsterdam because the artist who came up with the idea for the Bijlmer euro grew up in Lewes and lives in Brixton at the moment. The use of the local currency in the British areas was an effective strategy to stimulate the local society.

Is it possible that due to the economic crisis local economic systems are more successful? It looks like people have less trust in the value of money and because of that, there are more chances for the local economies.

The use of alternative currencies shows that there are alternatives on our accepted (economic) systems and that’s an interesting idea. The use of alternative currencies is a trustvillian concept and shows a deep trust in the concerning organization or society. The use of alternative currencies has 2 sides. It stimulates local societies but it fails in addressing the wider population. The alternative currencies can connect social communities all over the world if these models are adopted across borders.

I  don’t believe workplaces will dissapear totally but I do wonder what will happen with the giant spaces that the corporations don’t need anymore. We’ve seen this before, you retrofit them somehow. By looking differently at existing spaces, you can rearrange them into multifuncional floors and buildings. This phenomenon got concretised by The Rabobank in Breda. The Rabobank and the local library fell in love when they found out about their mutual ambition to do something good for the local community. Now they live together! The Rabobank packed it’s stuff and moved to the building of the library. By investing in local projects together they also try to improve the neighbourhood.

Some other examples are seen throughout the Netherlands. In the north of Brabant, in a small town called Willemstad you have a bank and a library sharing as well. In Gouda there’s a library in a lunchroom and in Den Bosch the collection of books got divided over the 46 elementary schools there.

So now If you have to wait to get the money you saved up for your trip to somewhere exotic or if you’re waiting to get a stawberry-banana muffin, you can instantly borrow and start reading Michel Foucaults ‘Les mots et les choses’ .

Having a hybrid identity isn’t the lifestyle of the 21st century. If you want to catch up you simply have to switch often and move fast in this information-overloaded iPhone/Android/Blackberry-world. This results in you not only switching roles but also bridging time and space. This is obviously a positive consequence, but are there also negative ones? Also, what kind of roles will we have in the future? And how many? Lets see what experts have to say about this:

Nicolas Carr explains in his book ‘ What internet does to our brains’, what kind of consequences this has on people and the way their brains are wired. It can result in losing the quieter and deeper modes of thought, which according to him, form the base of long term memory and thereby true intelligence. Because of the overload we’ve become distracted too much, which is why we can’t focus and lack the concentration to really ‘dive’ into one subject or matter.

Yet; on the other hand it makes people more creative, intuitive and inspiring in comparison to the lifestyle their parents led, Menno van der Veen argues in his ‘Welkom to Youtopia’. “ If Youtopians combine their forces and use their versatility to start projects for the good, they could contribute to society“. For example:

If an average Youtopist sees an image of poor African kids with swollen bellies and flies in their eyes, she get’s up, flies to Africa the same day, looks for others that tweet about third world poverty, the next morning she starts a blog and writes about her experiences, to proof the misery she posts pictures too. Within 4 days she can have created a whole community online about this topic and motivate it to demonstrate against this worldwide problem the next day in the streets of Amsterdam or Stockholm, on the other side of the world. Add all this up and see a powerful tool getting born.

To test the above mentioned theories the BBC designed the Web Behaviour Test to see what kind of effect the fragmented use of the Internet has on our brains. This test is created to answer the question: are people who use the web a lot different to people who don’t? Are there possible downsides as well as the very obvious benefits?

Go to the website to see what sort of web-animal you are.

Take Google. Google doesn’t agree with the policy that gay couples in the USA don’t get the same heath care/ tax benefits as straight couples, and therefore compensates her gay workers with about 1000 dollars each year. Is this a new form of protest and does Google make a better world by setting a new moral standard? Or is Google just a bit more competitive then the rest of Sillicon Valley? Doing good by being competitive?

Which companies will follow, and for what reasons?