Neighbourhood Campuses

WHAT’S A NEIGHBOURHOOD?

A neighbourhood is an area you can walk across in about ten to fifteen minutes. 

It’s an area where you feel you belong.  It’s familiar.  It’s where you can have your say.

 

Neighbourhoods have blurry edges.  The boundaries vary depending on who you talk with.

SO, WHAT IS A NEIGHBOURHOOD CAMPUS?

A Neighbourhood Campus uses under-utilized space and venues to fulfill the needs of and vision of a neighbourhood.  It is for the greater good. 

Not everyone can have a university in their neighbourhood.  But everyone can have the benefits of a Neighbourhood Campus.  Together, a network of local campuses amount to a Universe City of neighbourhoods.  The various campuses can connect to coordinate activities over the internet.

A Neighbourhood Campus is unlike a university.  It encourages us to imagine how life could be where we live.  Rather than rely on credibility and passing on authoritative information as a university does, a Neighbourhood Campus can promote the use of shared visions the roles that practical visionaries have in society.

And a Neighbourhood Campus ensures the social mobility of participants, our ability to improve ourselves and our lives and those of others, for today and tomorrow.  

If we lack both social and economic mobility, feeling trapped and unable to advance, we soon feel unbelievably angry.  That makes total sense but our social system continues to allow only a few families to benefit fully.  The old-style social system is an ongoing game of monopoly.  But unlike the board game, society is set-up to continue until the winner takes all.   

The items listed below are both the main requirements for social mobility, and essential aspects of healthy communities, free of self-imposed limitations and misunderstandings.

         

·       Providing venues conducive to learning through authentic self-expression.

·       Making access to credible information available to all who participate

·       Offering ways to influence decision-making locally and internationally.

·       Encouraging greater self-awareness, both as individuals, and collectively as a neighbourhood.

WHY USE ‘Universe City’ WHEN THE MEANING OF ‘Neighbourhood Campus’ SEEMS SELF-EVIDENT?

In nature, life forms rather than being built they gestate within wombs. 

Start our story by describing Toronto as the womb for the development of life.

Work together with leaders of existing educational ventures.  Follow up wherever schools are interested in reducing marketing costs by sharing the promotion expenses as an overall Neighbourhood Campus. 

By joining the dots the Universe City grows organically more like a baby in the womb than an old-style, top-down organization. 

A self-sustained network of Neighbourhood Campuses will extend wherever a demand exists. We will offer educational opportunities for mutual fulfillment – “What you need, near where you live.”