The document proposes a vision of a city where resources like gyms, museums, libraries, wifi, studios, labs, gardens, tools, office space, and schools are considered public goods available to all. It suggests reallocating funds currently spent on unnecessary things to enrich cities by freeing people up to pursue their passions. An informal business plan is described to provide an ecosystem of diverse people and resources as an experiment within a city, focusing on attachment, authenticity, and crowdsourcing choices. Money would be made available initially to demonstrate what is possible without traditional school funding models focused on seat time and test scores. The goal is to transform a city and mindset through permission-based spaces to play out a different economy and

2. The city would be like the school/classroom. True public education, for
the public (concerning all the people.) Any topic. Any time. Any where.
And because more people are sharing/collaborating, scarcity diminishes.
Exchanges become less about paper-currency/loans/grants/scholarship,
and more about time/talent share. Because people start to view the
community gain/growth/health as their own gain/growth/health,
competition diminishes.
And because people are spending their days grokking/doing/being what
matters to them, we experience more peace, a different economy, a
share/connection/trust economy, abundance exponentiates.
http://redefineschool.com/632-2/city-as-floorplan-deck/
Imagine a city/community/world where gyms, museums, libraries, wifi,
recording studios, apprenticeships, swimming pools, dance halls,
art/design/remix studios, chem labs, food gardens, lawn mowers, tools,
office space, community kitchens, …. schools, higher ed, … were all just
considered common/public goods.

4. Perhaps
..is a jumpstart to that vision.

5. Perhaps we already have all we need. We just need to reallocate.
Trillions of dollars are spent on things we don’t really need/want each year. So that money
becomes waste/wasted in some form or another. And because currently money drives
most things, those dollars also involve/include/abuse other things – like
energy/nature/resources/people.
Learning to be more resourceful/mindful with what we already have.
Imagine the money alone, going toward enlivening cities, where people are freed up to find
the thing they can’t not do. 7 billion people making change, as the day, not after hours, and
not on a loan.
resources level out

6. http://redefineschool.com/upcycling/

7. Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new
materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value. Upcycling is
the opposite of downcycling, which is the other half of the recycling process.
Downcycling involves converting materials and products into new materials of lesser
quality.
Breathtaking example of upcycling – landfill harmonic orchestra

8. http://redefineschool.com/632-2/what-is-education/

10. http://redefineschool.com/632-2/resources/

12. of the premise of an ibp (informal business plan)
http://redefineschool.com/ibp/
is part of the

13. we could start with ..
Money in particular, spent on: testing, competing, prepping, training,
standardizing purchases, policy-izing, regulating the policy-izing,
medication, restoration, prison, homelessness, …
Reallocation of funds, because w/healthier people, city spends less on
health care, judicial system, vandalism, homeless. That money can be
used to equitize resources, ie: food, shelter, living spaces, .. free higher
ed..
Freeing up current ed funding flows, for people to literally upcycle..
enlivening the cities/world in which they live.
But how to convince people to make this (little)
change…?
Equity (everyone getting a go) matters, so how to
make it simple enough so that it scales across and
sustains itself?

14. one with yourself.
one with others.
so what if we use 2 convos to literally redefine school (the day, the funding, the mindset, ..)
http://redefineschool.com/632-2/literally-redefine/
within ongoing protoyping
over the last five years..

15. Most districts average 500 policies they must comply with to garner public ed funding.
The most well-known/referenced policies being: seat time & test scores.
What if we prototype a city/district getting funding via just 2 policies. Ones that
address two fundamental human needs – attachment & authenticity:

16. community buy-in to have these daily conversations:
if everyone is having these 2 convos every day, 30+3 min, the rest of day is theirs. plus they get suggested connections everyday from the 3 min data. plus they get free access
to and input for resources throughout the city.
government/powers-that-be buy-in for ongoing funding:
if having these 2 daily convos works, (enlivens the city: less crime/poverty/health
issues/etc), the city/district gets funded per census, rather than seat time & test scores,

17. 632-2 public

18. Parts of this may sound familiar to things we’ve tried..
ie: advisory, 20% google time, choice, charters, homeschooling, …
how is this different?

19. Perhaps what has not yet
been tried..

20. http://redefineschool.com/632-2/in-the-city/
1/
a city-wide experiment, to provide an ecosystem of
eclectic people/resources;

21. an as-the-day experiment, rather than adding something to
the day (after hours/school/work).
*well. 100% minus 33 min. so 97.7% your day.
http://redefineschool.com/632-2/as-the-day/
2/

22. opendance happy
people
spaces/resources
tech
upcycle/reallocate

23. Money calls too many shots.
people become money free for a year.
Initial bet. Ongoing remix.
initial 20 mill to model (partial) future. ongoing via
upcycling/remixing/reallocating of current govt funding - starting
with ed.
Share/relationship/trust economy.
the future of money. more resourceful rather than more
resources.

24. http://redefineschool.com/this-is-not-ridiculous/
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25. We are looking for like minded dreamers interested in
financially jumpstarting ..
Just to see if there is a better way to live our days, rather
simply hoping for it or theorizing about it. Getting the sync
right to play out in a community where red tape is
essentially nill.
This is the next phase/prototype of a finding/vision we have
been dabbling with the last five years. Perhaps an
experiment/mindset in an ecosystem not yet tried.

26. If/when we model enough of a betterness – a city changed,
perhaps it would merit reallocation of current school
funding. Future finances would then come per census,
rather than seat time and/or test scores, as government, et
al, see the benefit of an entire city as community builders.
Ongoing spending would be determined by ongoing crowdsourcing of these gatherings per choice.
[If there does emerge betterness, yet powers that be don’t deem it worthy of
funding reallocation, perhaps the people themselves would bypass the
government buy-in phase, hastening a more democratic system/structure.]

27. 20 million would/could represent/demonstrate:
• what a city might look like financially if govt funding
was per census and crowdsourced per the
community/city/district
• how rich a city might feel, with or without the literal
money, when we start practicing a
time/talent/share/trust economy
• the transformation that might take place in just a
short year, in a city with a new/emerging mindset:
spaces of permission with nothing to prove

28. three areas of focus:
for the moneys

29. sabbatical to
play in city
[this could be
any district staff]
paid internships
to play in city
to start up
their real
dream job
tech/ai
unschooling
communication
documentary
*note: the idea is that labels – ie: teacher/student fade as everyone becomes/is both. initial/temp moneys go to those currently tied to
it. eventually all involved rhizomatically in whatever currency/economy emerges – ie: share/gift/connection/relationship

30. maker/hacker space
studios (record/edit/photo..)
homeless hotel
visitor/youth hostel
collaboratory/pi lab
theatre/dance
permaculture/wild life
elementary as sudbury-ish
middle as make/hacker-ish
high as youmedia-ish
cardboard
arduinos
people
tools
tables
bikes
food
materials
money
etc
*note: the idea is that spaces morph as much as people do. and especially initial spaces – ie: collaboratory functions are to 1get us back
to a natural state and 2as global research/sharing to affect world change

31. cellrecycle
wearable
microchip
personal-fab
for co-creating/remixing city
urbanfor access
observatory/google(in&out)/documentating
match.com
sketch-up/
/sharing
brain/map/trail
i-wish-thisscreens
personal-fab
was/seeclickfix/cityforw
projectors
wiring
sociometer
ard/streetlight/edgeryd
wifi banks
cameras
servers ers/hoverapp/collaborat
hot spots
deb roy-style
ivestorage
city-wide
space – out & in
consumption/project*note: the idea is that initial cost/functionality if successful - esp with tech – will soon become self/local/global-created/sustaining citizen

32. Reviving/remixing becoming indispensably remarketable. Co-creating a mindset of
a different economy/currency. Perhaps trust/share/relationship/connection, as a city
listens to each other without an agenda, other than: what do we need, what do we
have, what are we curious about, afraid of, .. and how can we facilitate that.
At all levels and in all areas we crowdsource/co-create/emerge community via
such things as (already existing): urban-observatory/google-sketch-up/i-wishthis-was/seeclickfix/cityforward/streetlight/edgeryders/projectcitizen/hoverapp/collaborative-consumption… maker/hacker spaces..
pie/coffee spaces.. sketch-able walls.. sidewalks..
Perhaps some of these think tank-ish space(s) would have literal birds-eye-view of
the city, with i-wish-this-was-a.. google sketch stations, giving everyone easy access
to share their dreams.

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a lawn mower
time to babysit
huge food garden
3 bikes not used on weekend
a guest room
dance skills
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someone to help me learn italian
a car on thursdays
a cook
someone who can fix my sink
$100 for an medical bill
ie: collaborative consumption, mesh, et al..

35. http://redefineschool.com/no-agenda/

36. for more on intent/meaning behind words/phrases.. they can be searched at