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SLOP1428: Coexistence 101

Coexistence 101 treats sharing a home, workplace, studio or public space as a design problem, not an etiquette checklist: presence, attention, hygiene, conflict and the norms that hold a room together, for anyone about to share space with other humans on purpose.

What you will do

You will run a field method on your own life: notice who gets how much room, who yields to whom, and what a space is silently asking of the people in it. Each week hands you a lens: civil inattention, proxemics, third places, the informal rules of a shared kitchen or a shared codebase, and a short, specific task to try it on a real room you already spend time in. You walk out with a working diagnostic method, a written protocol you have tested on a group you actually belong to, and a critique-and-redesign of one space that currently gets coexistence wrong.

Who it is for

Anyone about to share a home, a workplace, a studio or a lab bench with people they did not choose, which is to say, almost everyone after school. No prior social-science background is assumed; you need only a room with more than one person in it and a willingness to watch it closely instead of just living in it. It is not group-therapy or a personality inventory: what you hand in is a diagnosis, a protocol, or a redesign, and it is marked as one.

Where to go next

Tutes

The weekly schedule and what happens in each teaching session.

Assessment

What is marked, what it is worth, and when it is due.

People

Who teaches the course and how to reach them.