Welcome to Learner’s Commune 2039
Learners Commune 2039 is a multidisciplinary organization where design practitioners, educators, ethicists, anthropologists, sociologists, medical experts, psychologists amongst many more disciplines come together to advocate the principles of lifelong learning.
Learner’s Commune is responsible for setting the standards of educational values, curriculum and content according to the principles stated in the Manifesto. Emphasizing foresight and a respect for past practices, members of the Learner’s Commune continuously come together to determine the careers of the future and what needs to happen in the present to make that a reality.Learner’s Commune is also committed to helping institutions become open and enter the lifelong learning model through contributions. Lifelong learning requires thinking in long horizons of time with the objective of learning and paying that forward through the practice of teaching as well as mentoring. It is about understanding that knowledge is fluid and transcends the mechanistic barriers of past models of institutional educations. Even though some institutions still exist those walls have dissipated and accessibility for everyone is available and regarded as a human right. This accessibility comes free for all and it is the mission of the Learner’s Commune to spread the values of education and its limitlessness. Mechanistic structures of the past continue to exist but are challenged by open-source models of education where each learner becomes a contributor. Contributors provide their knowledge and experience to courses that become developed in robust degrees of careers that are constantly responding to the demands of the present and future.
Members of the Learner’s Commune come from every corner of the world with diverse backgrounds and boundless curiosity. Members come together to promote and advance lifelong learning through a set of values. These are:
1. Building a Caring Society Through Collaboration
In order to advance education a relationship between two or more entities is needed to form a collaborative bond.
2. Weaving Sustainability in Educational Practices
Form education is not enough to solve complex problems. Environmental interventions require help from the Learner’s Commune in order to advance systemic ways of thinking.
3. Expressing Gratitude to Living and Non-Living Forms
Through sustainability and respecting the full life cycle of people, nature, and regions gratitude is expressed and is a core value of every curriculum.
4. Emphasizing Foresight and Adaptability
By understanding the ways in which futuring is done preferable, possible and plausible scenarios can become a reality through transformation and resilience.
5. Paying it Forward
Every member has expertise in different areas and must contribute to curriculum building and contribute to the Learners Commune practices to advance lifelong learning. Everyone is both a student and a teacher.
6. Learning as a Daily Practice
Learning is a way of life and central in understanding the complex problems that evolve as people interact with objects, places and technology and shape their practices.
7. Thinking Holistically and Relationally
By understanding how environments affect people, overall effectiveness of a system is studied and not constrained to the understand of its individual components.
8. Curiosity as a Mindset
Curiosity is a necessary attitude in order to raise the right questions and to empathize.
9. Challenge Fabric of Everyday Life
Curriculum is always evolving in order to address models of change.
10. Appreciation towards Bioregions
Members of the Learner’s Commune are digital nomads that live in many parts of the world. A respect for the place that they are based and the integration of that into their curriculum is vital to understand different worldviews.
If you are ready to make this lifelong commitment and join this global community for education and social change please email ecperez@andrew.cmu.edu and notify member Eugenia of this. Please photograph, video or write down thoughts of the artifact(s).
