Imagine the city as an apprenticeship haven (the Met on steroids), where the entire city is the floorplan. The high school buildings become resource centers and meet up spaces. There is a city-wide art hall and engineering hall, forensics hall. The town acts more like a university campus.. where people are walking and biking to and from buildings through the course of a day, as the day. Feeding off each other. Feeding off life. The museum, the library, the restaurant, the dr’s office, the vet’s office, the coffee shop, the robotics company, auto-repair shop, permaculture farm, engineering firm, real estate office, dance/recording/art studio, … these become the classrooms. Public ed funding can now go toward community owned/shared spaces/resources, ie: maker space, community gardens, … We’re imagining crowded/stressed school buildings start emptying out as people realize options available to pursue interests in the city. As buildings empty, perhaps we restructure existing buildings to facilitate this useful notion of space – not defined by previous stated age groups – buildings could be combinations of – or whatever. highschool bldgs: youmedia center - ish middle school bldgs: maker space - ish elementary bldgs: brightworks - ish higher ed: barefoot/swaraj uni - ish
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