a lab

[the morphing of a name]

The experiment began with the title.. TSD (Thompson School District) Innovation Lab. Named by kids in the lab. (2010)

  • TSD to show/model/protogype a connected adjacency with the district.
  • Innovation to symbolize something different, a new combo.
  • Lab to emphasize experimentation, sandbox-ness.

Once we were experimenting in the be you house, (2011) and penned a be you book, many started referring to the experiment as the be lab.

  • be – because our focus was setting an individual free – be you.
  • lab – still a sandbox.

A main vision/statement of success, (early on), was that the lab would no longer exist. a lab would become a mindset. Bound by no location, title, experiment, ….

  • a – an indefinite article, fitting for an indefinite experiment, for an in-definitive space. blurring the lines of physical/mental ness.
  • lab – perpetually in beta, perpetually in the sandbox.

a lab in the city

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before settled on ‘lab’ – really wanted to use the term ‘commons‘ – but push back on that was fierce.

interesting. no?

words.

our findings from on the ground ness:

1\ undisturbed ecosystem (common\ing) can happen

2\ if we create a way to facil the seeming chaos of 8b legit free people

root of problem

legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do

how we gather in a space is huge.. need to try spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove to facil curiosity over decision making.. because the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us..

ie: imagine if we listened to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & used that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)

need to try the unconditional part of left to own devices ness..

there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance.. the unconditional part of left-to-own-devices ness.. for (blank)’s sake.. and we’re missing it

ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition

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pdf – lab matters – insight via Marlieke Kieboom – Kennisland – referencing many – esp  Zaid..

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