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Interviews and contributed place stories are optional; a clearly labeled evidence gap counts.", "assignments": [ { "title": "Personal radius map", "dueWeek": 2, "brief": "Draw the practical radius of one daily need and explain which boundaries are geographic, social, or infrastructural." }, { "title": "Three verified field records", "dueWeek": 4, "brief": "Make three private atlas records. Each includes date, privacy-safe place, observation, source or direct-observation label, confidence, access note, and correction note; contributing them to a shared atlas is optional." }, { "title": "One repair route", "dueWeek": 6, "brief": "Create an illustrated path from a documented local gap to one realistic first repair. A private export counts equally; publication is optional." } ], "weeks": [ { "week": 1, "title": "Who Draws the Boundary?", "question": "When does a radius describe belonging, and when does it conceal difference?", "sourceShelf": [ "On-page boundary comparison: draw one 25-mile circle, one daily-travel boundary, one relationship boundary, and one ecological boundary; label who each includes and excludes", "Participatory mapping and counter-mapping examples", "Local transit, neighborhood, and watershed boundary references" ], "studio": "Compare administrative, ecological, emotional, and practical boundaries around El Segundo and each learner’s place.", "fieldTask": "Draw four boundaries around one daily need and annotate who each boundary includes or excludes.", "publicReceipt": "A personal radius map with a short boundary statement." }, { "week": 2, "title": "Base Maps and Honest Legends", "question": "What does a map claim before any learner adds a mark?", "sourceShelf": [ "OpenStreetMap attribution and editing basics", "City and county public map layers", "Map legends, uncertainty marks, and source dates" ], "studio": "Read competing base maps, design a legend, and distinguish verified fact from local report.", "fieldTask": "Audit one map against lived experience and document one omission, error, or stale record.", "publicReceipt": "A sourced correction card or clearly labeled open question." }, { "week": 3, "title": "Run a Transect", "question": "What can a short, repeatable route reveal that a distant overview cannot?", "sourceShelf": [ "Walking-transect field protocols", "Universal-design and curb-to-door access prompts", "Responsible street photography and location privacy" ], "studio": "Practice a compact field protocol for route, threshold, asset, barrier, sound, sign, and unanswered question.", "fieldTask": "Walk, roll, ride, or remotely reconstruct one transect and record five evidence-based observations.", "publicReceipt": "One transect strip with route, time, mode, and access conditions." }, { "week": 4, "title": "Story and Memory Layers", "question": "How can a map hold testimony without turning a person into data?", "sourceShelf": [ "Consent-based community storytelling prompts", "Oral-history excerpt and attribution practices", "Location fuzzing and sensitive-place redaction patterns" ], "studio": "Add narrative layers while preserving context, consent, and the right not to be mapped.", "fieldTask": "Create a self-authored memory layer. Optionally invite another person to contribute a consented place memory; the self-authored route counts equally.", "publicReceipt": "A private-by-default self-authored memory layer, consented story pin, approximate-area note, or intentionally blank protected place." }, { "week": 5, "title": "Power, Access, Gaps", "question": "Which missing connection would matter most, and to whom?", "sourceShelf": [ "On-page systems map: connect the documented gap to people affected, existing assets, decision maker, public evidence, first action, and one uncertainty", "Public meeting, service-request, and department-route examples", "Small civic repair and tactical-improvement case studies" ], "studio": "Cluster the atlas into assets, barriers, decision paths, and candidate repairs.", "fieldTask": "Verify one gap with two sources and identify the people or offices already closest to it.", "publicReceipt": "A one-page evidence card for a candidate repair." }, { "week": 6, "title": "Publish the Living Atlas", "question": "How will this map stay useful, correctable, and locally accountable?", "sourceShelf": [ "Public map moderation and correction policies", "On-page export check: title, legend, source dates, privacy-safe precision, alt text or text list, credits, file format, and backup copy", "On-page stewardship note: name what may be corrected, how to submit a correction, who decides, the next review date, and what should be removed" ], "studio": "Self-review evidence, access, privacy, moderation, and maintenance before saving the atlas; opening it to others is optional.", "fieldTask": "Finish one repair route and write a simulated next-action handoff. 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The learner may reset them or download a private receipt." }, "optionalSupportedCohort": { "availableWhenFunded": true, "requiredForAccessOrCompletion": false, "note": "A scheduled cohort may add human review and facilitation, but it never gates the independent path." }, "completionReceipt": { "kind": "self-attested", "privateByDefault": true, "walletRequired": false, "onChain": false, "disclaimer": "The receipt is not academic credit, accreditation, verified identity, an on-chain credential, or a financial credential." }, "transactionPolicy": "Course browsing and participation are wallet-free. Tezos support is optional and requires separate explicit Mainnet review." }