Protopia LabsCommunity of Evolutionary Learning Labs

Why new initiative?

Other global initiatives start from certain beliefs:

“Developed world” has the “Best practices” for organizing education.

Education should be synchronized through unified ranking, testing, and other processes.

Main challenge is to insure full access to industrial model of primary and secondary education around the world.

We respect those efforts, but we believe a new paradigm is emerging.

Where we stand

World is changing with an ever increasing

speed.

We are entering post-industrial

era.

No country by itself has a solution how to organize society.

There will be no answers carved

in stone.

We should learn how to be

adaptive and authentic.

Education should enable us to

co-create desired future.

How GEF vision evolved

2008 From: Grass-root initiativevision building with Russian educational innovators

2011 Creating: New tools for collaborationrapid foresight method developed and implemented in Russia on national level with over 10.000 people participating

2014 Through: Rapid foresight sessions around the Globeopen rapid foresight vision building as a method of catalyzing change with varies communities of educational innovators around the globe

2016 Entering: Global dialogue on new education eco-systemorganized around shared values and oriented towards new social solutions

GEF results

While final report is under development,a number of products that harness parts of the ideas are available at edu2035.org.

• Global Education Roadmap,• Atlas of Emerging Jobs and• Educational trajectories of the futureare among them.

There is a new paradigm emerging.Some of us feel a need to take an action.

Education innovators from all over the world

participated in the discussion about next steps to be taken

based on the resultsof Global Education Futures

Rapid Forsight sessions.

Education scenarios

Complexity /scale of development /size of civilization

are part of the world scenarios

Question #1: Will we be able to deal with increasingly complex & volatile global society?

Question #2: Do we intend to make the world work for 100% of population without damage to our planet?

DARK AGE (collapse of complex civilization due to internal fragility & existential risk)

MOSAIC WORLD (unequal development with increasing instability that lead to either collapse or breakthrough)

Yes

Maybe

No

Thrivable / Wisdom based society

Dehumanization(AI solves problems, but not for all, and humans are reduced to be just consumers of technologies)

No

Yes

Our vision

To co-create a new way of human society based on wisdom, sharing, disciplined intuition, self-organizing, self- and collective – development and life-long learning without boundaries, through education that produces equitable, productive, thrivable and higher consciousness society and develops holistic, empathetic world citizens ready to embrace complexities of XXI century.

We are not building another utopia.

Let’s think

Creating shared desirable futures.One day at a time in the here and now.Constant pro-action and systems innovation.

Our mission

To create a global movement of educational/learning labs, co-created with learners of all ages in order to curate and spread genes of systemic innovation and align global evolution toward a paradigm shift to a protopic futures.

Emerging Qualities of the Wisdom Based Society

FROM Knowledge Based Economies

Asking ‘How’

Taking orders and following instructions

Getting to the top of hierarchy

Personal mastery and personal success

Experts: relevance to knowledge domain

Deconstructing / mechanistic thinking

Thinking & acting locally

Single-generational learning

Valuing public opinion, technology & scientific knowledge

Transfer of knowledge from teacher to student

Cognitive development

TO Wisdom Based Societies

Asking ‘Why’

Making choices and taking responsibilities

Creating a community

Collaborative achievement and collective success

Creators: relevance to practice & community

Complexity-embracing eco-systemic thinking

Thinking globally and acting glocally

Multi-generational learning

(Also) valuing personal experience and ancient wisdom

Co-creation between teachers & students

Holistic development

Our CELLs should grow as a treeCommunity of Evolutionary Learning Labs

RootFrom shared vision, principles and agenda at the root

Labs

Into variety of labs with localizedpractices andcurriculums

Plat-form

Through unifying platform(s) for crowd sourced education

Net-work

Into distributed network that connects and evolves

Processes within an individual protopia lab

Scaling up of working solutions to the ecosystem

Prototyping / testing grounds

Creation of new tools & Methodologies or adaptation / upgrading

Revival & develop of leaders and their networks

Cultivation and advocacy of vision & values

REFLECTIVE PRACTICES

COMMUNITY OF PROTOPIA

LABS

Protopia movement

Each LAB is independent and self-sufficient.

Different structures, but shared values.

Protopia movement

A temporary squadron can be formed by several LABS to tackle joint mission.

Protopia movement

All Labs are aligned by

shared Protopic vision, which

keeps evolving over time.

Protopia movement

To make it happen we need new collaboration protocols - technical and cultural.Lucky enough, this correlates with our educational paradigm.We plan to learn what we teach.

Our plans

Vision buildingWe should continue crafting vision for the new paradigm and the agenda for new education. The protopialabs.org website will be used to harness those ideas.

Mapping and connectingWe do not claim to hold the paradigm and we are open to engage with others who are working in a similar direction. We invite you to collaborate on our wiki reinventeducation.info.

Shared coursesWe are designing several federated hybrid courses, which should combine online modules with offline activities. Those courses include: system thinking, future of education, holistic entrepreneurship and collaborology.

FuturiserWe are creating a special events where new education paradigm will emerge. Futuriser is an opportunity through which educational innovators from all over the world will meet to exchange practices and co-create new educational programs and collaborative projects.

Participating in other eventsCollaboration with other institutions is the key to spreading new paradigm. The paradigm should be spread by practicing and helping others to evolve. We will be bring practices for collective thinking and co-creation practices to other events we are invited to.

Course on collabor

-ology

Upcoming eventsWhere Protopia Labs will collaborate

Confer-enceISSS

CampFuturiser

Collabor-ology Course

USAJuly 24 - 30

CyprusAugust 31 -September 6

CroatiaSeptember 24 -

October 2

Higher Education

Summit

IndiaNovember 10 - 12

Annual Meeting of the ISSS

Place and dateBoulder, CA, USA and in Vadlamudi, AP, India. July 24-30.

WhatConference of International Society for the Systems Sciences. Realizing Sustainable Futures in Socio-Ecological Systems. Systems Literacy Education and Outreach.

Protopia ambassadorAlexander Laszlo, Chair of the Curating Emergence for Thrivability SIG

ActionsWorkshop on co-designing shared course on eco-system thinking.

More info at http://dconstructed.wix.com/isss2016usa-india

Protopia Futuriser Camp

Place and datePyla, Cyprus. August 31 - September 6

WhatProtopia territory. Collective exploration of educational practices for Society 2.0.

Protopia ambassadorMikhail Kozharinov, Yiannis Laouris - camp organizers.

ActionsEducational innovators from all over the world will meet to exchange practices and co-create new educational programs and projects for their place, city, or university.

More at futuriser.org

Course Collaborology 2016

Place and dateDubrovnik, Croatia. September 24 - October 2

WhatInter-university course, co-created by all participants.

Protopia ambassadorDino Karabeg, Co-founder of Knowledge Federation

ActionsExploring collaboration theory, technologies and practices for further implementation.Creating courses on collaborology to be carried out by Protopia Labs.

More info at http://www.knowledgefederation.org/

FICCI Higher Education Summit 2016

Place and dateNew Delhi, India, November 10-12, 2016,

WhatFederation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & IndustryGlobal Conference & Exhibition“Education for Tomorrow: Learn in India-Learn for the World”

Protopia ambassadorShobha Mishra Ghosh, FICCI Senior Director

ActionsNew educational paradigm is presented.Indian Universities are invited to lunch Protopia Labs and offer shared courses.

More info at http://www.knowledgefederation.org/

And we will see what evolves from there!

If those ideas resonates with you and you see yourself as part of the emerging protopic futures, join our work.

Come to Futuriser, meet us on the other events or invite us to yours.

ProtopiaLabs.org

Appendix

1. What is true education about? 2. Lab canvas3. Lab canvas filled 4. Existing practices

What is true education about?

Tool for creating and reproducing culture

Process to visualize and travel to the personal and collective desired futures

Method for intentional co-evolution

System that creates productive and responsible world citizens

Self-development based on learning how to learn

Collective becoming and growing

Institutions that help us to go through challenges throughout lifetime

LAB canvas

Pre-conditions Visons

Values

Principles Roles Activities

Tools

Methods

Impact

Replicability

Scale

LAB canvas filled

Pre-conditions Visons

Values

Principles Roles Activities

Tools

Methods

Impact

Replicability

Scale

• Stakeholders buy-in• Funding• What other

“preconditions” are needed for successful implementation?

• To be a catalyzer for a new society (through education) created by people who practice the future they want to see (in alignment with “evolutionary guidance” and our principles)

• Aligend with our Manifesto (to be created)

• Learning and becoming

• Service• Selflessness• Contribution

• Develop and evolve• Living and Evolving

system• Attractive

inspirational• Fun, energizing• Able to connect• Complimentary• Practicing the future• Federation

• Connector• Communicator• “Expert”• Critic• Ambassador• Enthusiast• Hunter/Funding/

Forage• Rhythm keeper• Disruptor• Resonator in

Residence• Support• Mad scientist• System Designer• Guerilla Lobbyist

• To be filled in by labs and synthesized during upcoming events.

• What tools do we feature?

• What methods do we use?

• People think and act differently

• Scalable solutions• Acces to “power” =

real change

• Simple message and research for “serious people”

• Individual, Organizational, society

• Federation • Structured dialogue

Existing practices

Scaling up of working solutions to the ecosystem

Prototyping / testing grounds

Creation of new tools & Methodologies or adaptation / upgrading

Revival & develop of leaders and their networks

Cultivation and advocacy of vision & values

Community-of-practice schools, doctoral programs, social entrepreneurship accelerators

Lab’s within existing schools, universities, business schools, startup accelerators, urban activist centers, etc.

Education game developer labs, education hackathons, IdeaPrism, project-based integrated learning programs, competence-based education programs, simulator development labs, etc.

Meetups, MetaGames, (un)conferences, group Wiki, City Embassies, Foresight Fleet

Rapid Foresight, FutureLab, Structured Design Dialogue, Open Space, Art of Hosting etc.