05/06/2026
Maintaining one of our oldest quests in our pilot project ....
We did today a lot of maintenance work - not only digitally, but also in the real world.
we installed a stolen info board
we removed a few branches which had overgrown a QR code
we loosened screws of QR codes to give growing trees more space
we cut back nettles to make an overgrown stop accessible.
Whenever we do this work, we feel a bit like criminals ... our modern societies with their specialized professions have pushed us - and in particular children and youth - into passivity. We have become onlookers who are not anymore allowed to contribute to the maintenance of public spaces.
Its no surprise that some people resort to vandalism. If you can't contribute to a commons, then you show your disapproval through destructive behavior.
The Mobile Campus approach follows David Sobel's place-based learning method and turns children and young adults into urban rangers, who design gamified learning formats and maintain the real world infrastructure.
We need to turn the next generation into active assets of ecosystem regeneration, instead of pushing them out of the labor market through competitive schooling.
