[community] Seeking a name

[Robin Lobb]

Can you try something with the word Collaboratorium? I know it’s been used loads of times. It’s virtue is that it captures elements of your projects, collaborative reach and the lab dimension too. 

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> On Jul 17, 2018, at 7:58 AM, Treviranus, Jutta <jtreviranus at ocadu.ca> wrote:
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> I need help finding a name. 
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> As I’ve discussed with many of you, we are launching a lab school for inclusive life-long learning. It will be project based and provide an opportunity to explore and learn inclusive design in context. It will be structured as a global learning community and governed as a platform co-op, with members joining as both learners and educators. The members will be “radically diverse.” We have founding members from around the globe. 
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> There are many groups interested in participating and sponsoring the initiative, each from different perspectives:
> - universities and colleges see it as a way to experiment with alternative forms of education without risk to current institutions
> - the inclusive design community sees it as a means to create an inclusively designed educational experience unconstrained by current policies and structures (e.g., course length and timing, teaching assignments, grading and assessment, enrolment, etc.)
> - industry sees it as a more grounded and flexible way to learn about inclusive design
> - foundations and public institutions see it as a way to tackle complex problems and model more inclusive approaches to education
> - different learners, including learners who have faced barriers to education, see it as a way to optimize their unique learning potential and goals.
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> We are also devising ways to tackle financial inclusion through our membership structure, whereby a corporate membership also finances a scholarship, so we can be more inclusive.
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> Several degree granting institutions are interested in granting degrees for requisite aggregate credits. 
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> We are working to launch a pilot toward the end of this calendar year with a one week intensive in inclusive design. 
> The host entity for now is the Inclusive Design Institute with its 8 postsecondary institution partnership. https://inclusivedesign.ca
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> We have used the descriptive label “Lab School for Inclusive Life-long Learning,” in initially socializing the plans. We chose Lab School to denote the experimental or exploratory nature of the school (similar to the Child Studies Institute for K-12), but Lab denotes a sterile, separate space, and this will be anything but that. The name is also too long. 
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> I’m appealing to your collective creativity and brilliance.  Can you think of a good name for this venture that somehow eludes labelling?
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> thanks
> Jutta
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