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UTOPIA NOW

Utopia Projects Cycle A 2022

"Be the change you want to see in the world"

Mahatma Gandhi

STAFF

WORKSHOP

UTOPIA

vision, GOALS & METHOD

CURRICULUM

NOTICE BOARD

The Utopia Now program was developed by Dr. Maya Shalom, based on architect, Oded Kutok's Utopia Workshop.

Cycle A Projects

Come Read With me Book Reading Campaign

Full-Nutrition pills

UTOPIA

Social accountabillity

Healthy Soul in a Healthy Body

Vision

The main vision of the program follows Mahatma Gandhi's quote: "Be the change the you wish to see in the world". As such, the program invites students to participate in a challenging learning journey that promotes intellectual independence, critical thinking, courage and personal liberty.

Our Goals

1. To develop collaboration between students and faculty on an international level 2. To develop collaborative learning skills that focus on participants’ personal interests 3. To initiate a project that creates a positive, far-reaching sustainable change on an interpersonal and educational level.

The 6 steps of 'Utopia Now' workshop

1. 'Boom'

2. Future Detectives

3. Anxieties and Hopes

4. Game changers

5. Our New Worlds

STAFF

Dr. Maya Shalom

Dr. Kristof Decraene

Mr. Thomas Schrei

Dr. Shai Biderman

Dr. Cahit Shaham

Dr. Isabella Benischek

NOTICE BOARD

בית מלאכה לאוטופיות גירסה בעברית

The lessons in the program

A plenary session 20/3/23

A plenary session 6/3/23

A plenary session 13/3/23

Independent groups 27/3/23

A plenary session 17/4/23

Independent groups 8/5/23

A plenary session 15/5/23

Conference 5/6/23

10

8-9

Independent groups 16/5-4/6 - 2023

The Utopia Now program was developed by Dr. Maya Shalom, based on architect, Oded Kutok's Utopia Workshop.

Lesson 1

Utopia & Dystopia

Program Intro

My Name

Greetings

Discussion -Program Purpose

Boom! The Power Of Change

Summary

Booms Presentation

The Utopia Now program was developed by Dr. Maya Shalom, based on architect, Oded Kutok's Utopia Workshop.

Lesson 1: My Name

Dear Students, We will now divide you into zoom rooms for a group activity In order become familiar with each other. You are invited to share the story behind your names. (You have about 15 min)

Lessons 1: Program Intro

Welcome to the "Utopia Now" course. We are embarking on a new journey... during the journey we will see the "Utopias Workshop" methodology. A 6-step methodology that is aimed at identifying clues for the future in the present.

Lessons 1: Boom - exercise

UNDERSTAND THAT REALITY CAN CHANGE IN AN INSTANT! Phase 1: 'Boom' Turning points Searching for evidence that the world can change in an instant, not everything that is familiar is also permanent. Examples from collective stories and personal stories from the past. Inundation and deciphering students' personal stories.

Lessons 1: The Power Of Change

The first step of the "Utopian Workshop" methodology is called Boom! This step is based on the understanding that: our reality can change in a moment. In this presentation we will embark on a journey of

Let’s begin with a story… & go back in time to 1890

In 1898, New York convened an important international conference about urban planning.

Can you guess what was the reason for the conference

The burning issue on the agenda was horse manure.

Yes, yes! can you believe it? horse menure!

During that period, the main transportation in the cities of the world was horse-drawn carriages and carts that drove people and goods around.

The thousands of horses that walked the streets every day in cities like London ַ& New York left behind large amounts of manure that caused terrible smell, traffic jams, flies and disease-bearing insects.

An article published in the London Times in 1894..."Within 50 years, the reporter predicted, every street in London will be covered by over 3 feet of horse manure!"

After 3 days of profound discussions, the conference was dispersed without results.

Summary: Urban Crisis 1890

BOOM

It's safe to assume that most of the people who participated in the conference probably didn't think that 10-15 years later - cars and trains will replace the horses on the streets! As you can see, it's not easy to predict the future. Do you know any other "booms" in our world?

Lesson 1: Summary

• Round circle - what did you learn from today’s lesson?
• Volunteers - Introduction of the College
• Home Work: Introduce "booms" in the collaborative presentation
• Presentation of the final assignment

Lesson 1: Boom - reality can change in an instant

And now... We'll move on to additional innovative inventions from science.

Lesson 1: Boom - reality can change in an instant

Growing organs in a laboratory is a revolutionary field that uses tissues from different parts of the patient's body to grow organs on the body itself for transplant.

Lesson 1: Boom - Printing houses

From growing organs to growing houses

We don't know what it's like in Austria. But, here in Israel, buying a house is almost impossible! so... Note the following invention... House printing!

Lesson 1: House Printing

Lesson 1: The wonders of technology - virtual reality

If you thought the future of virtual reality was in Google glasses or smartphones - think again. Innovega develops contact lenses called iOptik that will clearly and in three dimensions display elements of virtual reality inside our eye. Note that the next time you see someone sitting and staring into the air, with nothing on their face, you should know that they may just be watching a movie or checking statuses on Facebook.

Lessons 1: VR

Lesson 1: Let's move on to our present

Corona is an excellent example of the "Boom" stage. It is proofthat our reality can change in a moment. Unfortunately, it's not the only epidemic that has struck humanity. Spanish flu, for example (1918-1919) had infected 500 million people. About a third of the world's population at the time (between 20 to 50 million people died from it).

Lessons 1: The Spanish Flu & Corona

Lesson 1: The Family - Egon Schiele

Here's Sheila's "The Family" painting. Sheila lost his pregnant wife from the epidemic in Vienna, not long before he died from the epidemic, as well. The painting was painted shortly before their death, and wasn't completed, as you can tell from the woman's missing foot.

Lesson 1: Summary

The Coronavirus pandemic is an excellent example of reality changing in a moment (Boom- the first step of "Utopias Workshop" Methodology) How do you think Corona has changed reality?

Lesson 1: Corona effects - Depression

The global coronavirus crisis affects mental health: A study by the American Center for Disease Control reveals a high rate of depression, anxiety, drug use, and suicidal thoughts.

Lesson 1: Corona effects – Employment

Let's move on to a little more optimistic topic... Remember this? "Going" to work or college in pajamas from the living room?

Lesson 1: Corona effects – Employment

Which one of us isn't familiar with Zoom? The employment world is now required to partly change into remote work. Remote work and learning will likely remain with us even after the epidemic. It may even lead to a new working culture, one that will, in the long run, reduce the use of the private vehicle and the pollution it causes.

Lesson 1: Corona effects – Air Pollution

The U.S. Space Agency reported that during the crisis, from January to late February, there was a 10 to 30 percent decrease in nitrogen dioxide concentration in the atmosphere above China.

Lesson 1: Corona effects – Hygiene

Along with the positive impact of the epidemic on atmospheric conditions, we expect to see a change for the better as well in the rise of public awareness for hygiene.

Lesson 1: Corona effects

Well, there are a lot more changes to be discovered. On a personal, emotional, social, economic, cultural level, and others... Any ideas?

Lesson 1: Corona effects

So, what did we have on this journey? We started with the horse manure that bothered the world until the car came into our lives... We went on with inventions, from the invention of the match to growing organs, house printing, virtual reality lenses. And we ended up in our time - the coronavirus pandemic. All the events we've presented here leave behind clues for the future.

Lesson 1: Corona effects

In our course, you have been chosen to be the change you want to see in the world as Gandhi said. We invite you to look around and search for clues that might tell us something about our world. Already at this point, try to think about how you can make our world better... Because that's what we're going to do on our journey.

Lesson 1: Corona effects

In our course, you have been chosen to be the change you want to see in the world as Gandhi said. We invite you to look around and search for clues that might tell us something about our world. Already at this point, try to think about how you can make our world better... Because that's what we're going to do on our journey.

Lesson 1: Lesson summary

1. What did I take from the lesson? 2. Are there volunteers to give a short presentation in order to introduce your college to the other members? 3. Homework - Look around you for clues that can predict something about the future.

Lesson 1: Student's Responsibilities

Mandatory attendance, planning an initiative, participation, involvement and ongoing assignments. The program lessons- synchronous and asynchronous lessons in groups.

Final Project: 1. Planning an initiative: from idea to action. 2. Writing a group project that includes a documentation of the process from the idea stage to the execution stage along with a theoretical background. 3. Presenting the project at a conference that will take place in the last lesson.

Lessons 2

My College

Students presentation - BOOM

Stage 2 - Detectives Future

future history - 21th century

Summary And Assignments

Why even think about the future?

Classes around the world & Boom?

The Utopia Now program was developed by Dr. Maya Shalom, based on architect, Oded Kutok's Utopia Workshop.

Lesson 2: Utopia Now

Utopia is the representation of hope for a better world and it's part of a cultural development. Utopian thinking gives free rein to the imagination, and challenges the contemporary reality and the systems that try to preserve it helping to cultivate new ambitions.

Lesson 2: Why a Utopia Workshop?

Precisely in the midst of economic crises and environmental disasters, and in the face of a violent political and social reality, the intrinsic value of utopias is particularly relevant. Autopia workshop is a working method.

Lesson 2: Why a Utopia Workshop?

Through the operation of the workshop - we will reveal and discover together personal and collective aspirations for the future of the local space and society and explore possibilities for the images of unfamiliar futures.

Lesson 2: How will the Utopia Workshop contribute (1)

1. Initiation of actions that change reality in accordance with the local aspirations revealed in the workshop.2. Formulation of new intentions and paradigms for the local space and their visual representation. Potentials and ideas for cross-disciplinary, cross-scale actions, and possibilities for their realization. 3. Inundation, recognition and discovery of the anxieties and hopes of the stakeholders in the place.

Lesson 2: How will the Utopia Workshop contribute (2)

4. Discovering options for turning points on the way to new futures. 5. Making all of these present, consciously or unconsciously, in public, political, pedagogical and professional discourse and action. 6. Expanding the boundaries of the discussion, thinking and creation of the future to additional publics, to diverse disciplines and to other perspectives.

Lesson 2: Utopia Workshop

1. 'Boom'

2. Future Detectives

3. Anxieties and Hopes

4. Game changers

5. Our unfamiliar future worlds

6.Starting points

Lesson 2: Classes around the world

Being an educator - classes around the world

Julian Germain “….the power of the images is in their direct connection to the viewer. We remember our own schooldays and wonder what happened to our own classmates. By presenting different pupils, different schools, different year groups, Germain asks questions about contemporary educational practices and social divisions. Already we can imagine the life trajectories of some of these young people. Here are faces full of hope and promise. Here also, is the silent threat of failure. Aspiration competes with apathy…..” Tom Shakespeare. Archive Magazine, October 2005

Classes around the world

Points for discussion: - Why did we choose to do this activity? - What can we learn from this activity? - How is the activity related to the subject matter?

Clues for the future - an electric car

Clues for the future - a home blood pressure monitor

Clues for the future - solar energy

Clues for the future - solar energy

If I could

If I could make a change?– group work – We will sail with our imagination in the activity 'if I could'- think in groups what the (personal - general) world around you would look like if you could... (20 minutes)

Summary:

1. What do I take from today’s meeting? 2. You were chosen to be future detectives!!! Look around you... Do you find any clues to the future? Add the clues to the collaborative presentation.

Lessons 3

Stage 3 - Anxieties & Hopes

utopia & dystopia in the mirror of cinema

Students presentation Future detective

Presentation of the final assignment & Work groups

positive psychology

The Utopia Now program was developed by Dr. Maya Shalom, based on architect, Oded Kutok's Utopia Workshop.

Lesson 3 -Future Detectives group work

Round circle: what did you learn from today’s lesson? Homework (continue class activity: searching for clues) • Search for future clues in the present & add it to the padlet • Explain the clues • Upload a picture to illustrate the clues • Make sure to add your group’s names or your name.

Examples cycle A

Future paintings

As you can see, it's not easy to predict the future. Let's look at the paintings drawn 100 years ago Try to figure out how the paintings predicted the future 100 years ago.

A series of futuristic pictures by Jean-Marc Côté and other artists issued in France in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910

A series of futuristic pictures by Jean-Marc Côté and other artists issued in France in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910

A series of futuristic pictures by Jean-Marc Côté and other artists issued in France in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910

A series of futuristic pictures by Jean-Marc Côté and other artists issued in France in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910

A series of futuristic pictures by Jean-Marc Côté and other artists issued in France in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910

Lessons 4

Thinking task: Starting to think of an idea... Release barriers ַsail your imagination...

The Utopia Now program was developed by Dr. Maya Shalom, based on architect, Oded Kutok's Utopia Workshop.

Lessons 5

“Modern Times” from Chaplin, Orwell’s “1984”... to reality

Students Ideas: Discussion & Consultation

Inspiration 17 UN goals

Stage 4 - "Game Changer" & Stage 5 - "Our New World"

Lets Sstart - Group collaboration

The Utopia Now program was developed by Dr. Maya Shalom, based on architect, Oded Kutok's Utopia Workshop.

Lesson 6: making a difference in the world

In groups think of an idea where you can make a small or a big difference in the world.

• Write your group’s idea.
• Write a description of your group’s idea
• Write the purpose/goals of the group’s idea
• What is required in-order to bring about the change
• Describe the idea using the different stages of the Utopian workshop.
• add a title to your group’s idea and add the names of the group’s members.
• Get ready to next lesson for discussion and consultation

The Utopia Now program was developed by Dr. Maya Shalom, based on architect, Oded Kutok's Utopia Workshop.

Lesson 8+9: From idea to reality

continue to work on your project of making a difference in the world. • Make your dream into a reality – implementation of your project • Describe your idea through the stages of Utopia (Boom, future detectives…)

Project’s Instructions:

The Utopia Now program was developed by Dr. Maya Shalom, based on architect, Oded Kutok's Utopia Workshop.

Project’s Instructions:

A proposal of making a change in individual/pairs/group work. Think of an idea where you can make a small/big difference. Put the idea in writing and design a slide with: a. Your full name b. Original name for the idea/initiative c. The purpose that the idea/initiative is promoting d. Description of the idea e. What is required for its implementation

The PROJECT

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Conference 5/6/23

The Utopia Now program was developed by Dr. Maya Shalom, based on architect, Oded Kutok's Utopia Workshop.