A self-guided creative residency
Conventional schools teach forms and rules, things to memorize and repeat. A school of the future teaches the creative spirit and an illusive quality demonstrated by some humans and arguably not by AIs: initiative. How do you explore your own direction, fail, correct, share with others, and learn? If you’re lucky, you get to do this at your job every day. If not, find yourself an Invisible College.
The most famous example of a self-guided, community-driven creative retreat is Recurse Center, formerly known as Hacker School. What if you made a retreat where you could also live, eat, and dream with other creators?
Imagine a pocket universe, a co-working and co-living speakeasy, accessible only by word-of-mouth. It would look like a normal apartment, but be a Distributed Autonomous Home, run by the consensus of Members. They pay rent and placate landlords and stock toilet paper and mix Soylent. Day-to-day they show up to enjoy the wifi and coffee and blinking lights.
Code gets written, art is made, companies are run. Very ordinary stuff, happening consistently, to build a mountain.
The beds would be rented over AirBnB, CryptoCribs, or a similar service, which would provide the primary revenue. Guests would be selected by their hackish projects or their hackish reasons (like Bang Bang Con, HopeConf, or a Recurse Center batch). Check-in and check-out would happen asynchronously through lockboxes. Guests would communicate their comings and goings over real-time chat, encountering each other and Members, possibly mixing and collaborating, particles generating fields to enmesh each other, social insects buzzing.
Add ethereal music, Sunday dinners, and the occasional hacker party.
