Moleque de Ideias
= Moleque de ideias is a software house and a a place to learn what one wants to do. From age 4 onwards.
URL = http://www.molequedeideias.net/
Open school without curriculum!
Description
"Firm founded in 1996. Moleque de Ideias keeps a living environment where all children, youth and adults can create and manage their own projects. The organization emerges from the interests of each other, creating learning networks for the realization of ideas.
As each person is encouraged to develop his/her own creativity, the company's portfolio covers a wide range of possibilities. Under a monthly membership fee, children attend weekly to the space, bringing new ideas that inspire adults to develop projects that will help them in their creations. These projects, along with other ideas and demands brought up by adults, pass through a maturing process and possibly develop a commercial or even communal appeal.
Moleque de Ideias provides a wide range of technologies for regulars to explore their imagination and discover new knowledge. Along with the community around them, develop forms of urban agriculture, composting to study, invest in research on new interfaces and devices controlled by thought, RFIDs and outlets assisted by Augmented Reality, creating robots, among other initiatives that use technology , whether high or low tech, to empower people.
These approaches to new learning environments have a strong theoretical base, anchored in a vision of the network society, glocal (global + local), formed by people and groups who use technology to improve the quality of life for all."
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My personal view about what "is being" Moleque de Ideias (by Nilton Lessa):
First of all, I would like to state that any definition and explanation anyone could offer about Moleque de Ideias(or any living social organism), it's suitable and correct. Every definition of a living organism(anyone, social, biological, etc) offered by someone interacting with it, is "by definition" :-) correct: because it's the report of a particular being, and as a personal report of the effects of this interaction, it's is true. But it's, also "by definition", wrong: because living organisms are adaptive, nondeterministic, complex (in the sense of a "complex system" mathematically speaking) and no restraining idea can capture all of their aspects. And if, by chance one definition is the best suited, it will be possibly obsolete at the very moment it's expressed.
So, said that, I don't see Moleque de Ideias as any kind of "school" for my experience working here in these last 17 years and for some theoretical and empirical ideas I strongly believe.
- Learning IS NOT equivalent to "someone teaches somebody at some moment"; (no "words playing" here)
- there isn't ANY curriculum: neither open, neither free , etc. The very concept of "curriculum"is completely strange for me as I conceive my work in Moleque de Ideias.
- none separation of categories as "make"-"think"-"learn"-"share" as this separation is completely artificial and only reflects the separation one PARTICULAR kind of society imposes over "living".
- no pre-defined rules ante-interaction.
I (for)see that social organisms like Moleque de Ideias and Curto Café, when-where people(no age, no professional specialization segregation) produce-share-learn (a longer and triple word for a simpler-shorter one: "live") will be very common in the future.