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Choose any room and begin immediately. Access is uncapped; the 120-learner figure is a funding plan for optional human support.
UNIVERSITY OF EL SEGUNDO · ONLINE SEASON 1 · ACTIVE · START ANYTIME
The Local
Transmission.
Ten six-module studios turn local observation into an art-forward commons. Start anywhere, move at your own pace, keep your work private, and finish without an account.
- Active classes
- 10
- Modules
- 6
- Access
- Open
- Tuition
- $0
START ANYTIME
SELF-PACED
LOCAL PROGRESS
PRIVATE RECEIPT
No account. No application. No deadline. No wallet. Public only by choice.01 · CURRENT ONLINE TERM
Choose a room.
All ten rooms are active now. Each has six readable modules, a self-guided studio path, field tasks, access notes, private local progress, and a finishable outcome. Optional supported cohorts add people, not permission to begin.
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Marine Layer: Weather, Light & Daily Seeing
WEATHER + LIGHT
Study weather as visual material and public experience: observe one place closely enough to see air, light, sound, and daily change become a local language.
LEAVES BEHINDAn accessible six-panel micro-atlas showing one place through changing weather, light, color, and sound.Start this course → -
The 25-Mile Atlas: Mapping a Living Radius
MAPS + CIVIC
Map a place through useful rooms, missing connections, access barriers, lived stories, and the relationships that make a radius more than a circle.
LEAVES BEHINDA private-by-default map of useful places, missing connections, lived stories, access barriers, and one achievable local repair, with optional public sharing.Start this course → -
Public Image Office: Posters, Signs & Civic Invitations
TYPE + PUBLIC IMAGE
Treat public graphics as working civic material: images that help a real person find, understand, join, question, or remember something local.
LEAVES BEHINDA private-by-default visual campaign for a real or self-defined local gathering or public-use project: poster, mobile card, printable sign, and editable source package.Start this course → -
Living Archive: Oral History, Image & Sound
ARCHIVE + MEMORY
Practice keeping as a relationship: listen carefully, request consent, preserve enough context, and make a record another person can understand without claiming ownership of their life.
LEAVES BEHINDOne consented oral-history or object-story record containing edited audio or transcript, an image, metadata, and a clear rights statement.Start this course → -
Collective Intelligence Studio: Humans, Agents & Editorial Judgment
AI + COLLECTIVE
Build human-agent workflows in which tools expand the field of possibility while people remain accountable for sources, decisions, omissions, and the finished public claim.
LEAVES BEHINDA sourced research dossier or creative work accompanied by a legible process ledger showing what the learner, tools, and sources each contributed.BOUNDARY · No sensitive personal data, deceptive synthetic media, unlicensed imitation, or unsupported factual publication.
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Common Table: Hospitality as Civic Infrastructure
HOSPITALITY + COMMONS
Practice invitation, access, facilitation, food or object prompts, conflict care, and follow-through as the working infrastructure of a good collective room.
LEAVES BEHINDAn accessible 45-minute gathering or one-person hospitality rehearsal with an invitation, run-of-show, micro-budget, access notes, and aftercare receipt.Start this course → -
Plant Portraits: Form, Lineage & Cultural Memory
BOTANY + LINEAGE
Join botanical looking, introductory lineage study, cultural history, image making, and typography without reducing a living plant to decoration or commodity.
LEAVES BEHINDA sourced four-page illustrated plant portrait plus one private lineage panel, with optional contribution to a shared visual lineage wall.BOUNDARY · Legal specimens and public information only. Cannabis examples remain 21+, educational, and non-medical, with no consumption or unlawful cultivation instruction.
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Local Broadcast: Publish a Place
BROADCAST + PLACE
Build a small, accountable local publication from field reporting, visual language, sound, metadata, community editing, and a clear promise to the place it serves.
LEAVES BEHINDOne accessible six-item issue containing a dispatch, portrait, map, resource, image or audio card, and editor’s note, plus a reusable publishing kit.Start this course → -
Repair Manual: Care, Maintenance & the Everyday
CARE + MAINTENANCE
Treat maintenance as local knowledge: read wear, diagnose carefully, decide when not to intervene, and explain one safe care practice so another person can use it.
LEAVES BEHINDAn accessible illustrated care manual for one ordinary object or shared-place condition, including a diagnostic tree, safety boundary, materials and cost notes, maintenance interval, and handoff.BOUNDARY · Low-risk observation and care only. No electrical, gas, structural, medical, vehicle-safety, hazardous-material, weapon, or unlawful work; stop for every condition named in the on-page stop rule or whenever a source or product label requires qualified help.
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Listening Post: Soundwalks & the Acoustic Commons
SOUND + PLACE
Hear one place as a layered public system: notice rhythm, refuge, noise, voice, weather, machines, and other species, then shape those observations into an ethical and accessible listening route.
LEAVES BEHINDA five-minute listening route or stationary sonic atlas with field recording or non-audio score, map, transcript or description, context, consent notes, and a reusable observation prompt.BOUNDARY · No intelligible private conversations, covert recording, trespass, unsafe routes, or disturbance of wildlife or sensitive sites. A stationary, archival, memory-based, or notation-only path always counts equally.
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02 · THE SHARED CONTRACT
How we will run it.
Start any class immediately, without an application or account. Follow six modules at any pace, save progress locally, finish the outcome, and download a private self-issued receipt. Complete any four of the six module receipts and the final course outcome or a private equivalent. The downloadable receipt is a self-attestation, not accreditation or a financial credential.
One clear solo path
Every group or critique prompt includes a self-guided equivalent. Live attendance and peer response are never required.
Four of six
Complete any four module receipts and the final course outcome or a private equivalent.
Progress stays local
Your browser remembers checkmarks. Downloading a private, self-issued completion receipt is optional.
Learner rights
Learners retain copyright. Public licenses and Tezos minting are optional.
No wallet gate
Learning never requires an account, wallet, public identity, contribution, or public artifact.
03 · OPEN-BOOK COST
Pay for preparation, not just airtime.
The planning target is $46,600, about $388 for each of 120 learners receiving optional human support. Self-paced access remains uncapped and tuition is $0.
THE LOCAL TRANSMISSION$46,600
Ten courses · six modules · 120 supported learners planned · access uncapped
- Ten active self-paced course roomsEditorial maintenance, access materials, microgrants, course-specific production, and optional supported cohorts.$34,500
- Learner access grantsConnectivity, care, equipment, translation, and other participation barriers.$4,000
- Platform and public archiveCourse pages, streaming, shared storage, feeds, archive, and production utilities.$2,100
- Legal, insurance, and administrationQualified review, participant agreements, bookkeeping, insurance, and program administration.$2,500
- ContingencyProtect paid teaching, access, and the public outcomes from ordinary pilot surprises.$3,500
UES-201$3,350
Weather-and-art guest honorarium beyond the standard course plan.
UES-202$3,300
Mapping tools, data preparation, and accessible export support.
UES-203$3,400
Print proofs, format testing, and accessibility-production review.
UES-204$3,700
Archive storage, rights support, and a specialist guest honorarium.
UES-205$3,300
Optional faculty demonstrations, accessible process-ledger examples, and independent curriculum maintenance; the class does not depend on model or API credits.
UES-206$3,500
Four $100 optional project grants for access, food, materials, or room costs.
UES-207$3,600
Botanical guest faculty and accessible observation kits.
UES-208$3,400
Hosting, feed, archive, and lightweight publishing utilities.
UES-209$3,450
Optional professional safety review, accessible diagram examples, and low-risk repair micro-kits; none is required for independent completion.
UES-210$3,500
Optional faculty listening lab, accessibility review, and public hosting support; the page and a local text or audio file are sufficient for independent completion.
04 · SEASON 0 FOUNDATIONS
The first eight questions.
Season 0 established the school’s original online foundations. The Local Transmission makes the next term more runnable: complete self-guided rooms, explicit access, visible completion paths, and course-level costs.
- UES-1016 weeks
The Rebuildable Town
Read a town as a system that can be repaired: streets, services, rituals, budgets, signs, and the relationships between them.
- UES-1026 weeks
Local Systems & Civic Practice
Learn how agendas, fees, public records, departments, and neighborhood relationships become everyday civic power.
- UES-1036 weeks
Flower Commons: Plant Beauty & Human Culture
Study plant form, cultivation, symbolism, public gardens, and the ways people build culture around living beauty.
- UES-1046 weeks
Cannabis Studies: Grow, Genetics & Society
An interdisciplinary study of plant biology, genetics, cultivation systems, visual culture, history, policy, and community stewardship.
- UES-1056 weeks
Type as Public Language
Treat typography as civic material: a voice for signs, flyers, course covers, wayfinding, protest, welcome, and memory.
- UES-1066 weeks
AI Studio: Tools, Judgment & Authorship
Use contemporary creative models with taste, disclosure, source awareness, and a strong human editorial point of view.
- UES-1076 weeks
Archive, Tezos & Public Memory
Build durable public archives, understand wallet-based publishing, and examine when minting adds value to a cultural record.
- UES-1086 weeks
Community Operations: Host, Feed, Fund
Practice the invisible work of a good gathering: invitations, access, hospitality, facilitation, budgets, conflict care, and public receipts.
05 · AFTER ONLINE
Six field departments waiting for a local room.
These previously outlined tracks remain the 25-mile field layer—not a competing online catalog. They open only after a steward, partner site, access path, budget, and real El Segundo-area schedule exist.
Saltwater Skills
Tides, beach reading, marine layer, shoreline safety, and the small practical literacy of living beside the Pacific.
FIRST SESSIONRead a tide chart, pick a beach window, and name one ocean condition worth watching.
Court Craft
Pickleball fundamentals, doubles etiquette, paddle feel, ladder play, and friendly match structure.
FIRST SESSIONRun a dink/reset clinic and open the paddle shelf for ten-minute trials.
Hands & Trades
Small repairs, useful craft, bike fixes, planter boxes, food skills, and the dignity of knowing how to do one real thing.
FIRST SESSIONEach person brings one broken, dull, loose, or confusing object and leaves with a next move.
Civic Layer
How El Segundo actually works: city meetings, planning, airport edges, water, schools, parks, and local decisions.
FIRST SESSIONMap one local decision path from public notice to meeting to vote to follow-up.
Honey & Garden
Local honey, native planting, seasonal harvests, neighborhood tables, and pollinator-aware gardening.
FIRST SESSIONPair a honey tasting with one native planting move and a published field note.
Studio Night
A low-bar, high-frequency demo room for anything someone made this week.
FIRST SESSIONThree seven-minute demos, no slide polish, one receipt per demo.
UES-09 · LIVE FIELD INSTRUMENT
RADIUS / 90245 turns the 25-mile layer into an RF bench.
Move a hypothetical receiver through El Segundo's field layer, tune the carrier and link budget, inspect the Fresnel zone and light-time, hear the modeled margin, then share the exact experiment.
Open the signal lab →PREVIOUS CURRICULUM · ADDRESS PRESERVED
UES-05 remains where it was built.
The historical Rebuildable Town is a six-lesson field study in inhabitable software. It is not UES-101, and its monotonic address stays intact.
Open historical UES-05 →