What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.
Every lecture the course claims to run gets a dated page and a teaching-team
reference. A course decides how many lectures it needs; one of them carries a
real deck. related: connects lectures to the sessions and assessments they
feed.
Know thyself first
Opening lecture, why the course starts with you, not with the people around you
Week 1 · 22 February 2027
Third place
Week 2, Oldenburg's home/work/third-place trichotomy, and why it matters for coexistence
Week 2 · 1 March 2027
Civil inattention
Week 3, Goffman's interaction order, civil inattention, and the tie- signs that break it
Week 3 · 8 March 2027
Proxemics
Week 4, Hall's four distance zones, and how to actually measure them in the field
Week 4 · 15 March 2027
Home and share houses
Week 5, chores, noise and food as the real currency of a shared home
Week 5 · 22 March 2027
Hygiene as a shared-space issue
Week 6, hygiene as maintenance, not morality, and why one standard doesn't fit every body
Week 6 · 29 March 2027
Workplace
Week 7, professionalism as a coexistence skill, getting the task done with people you didn't pick
Week 7 · 12 April 2027
Studio
Week 8, noise, mess and equipment contention in shared creative and lab spaces
Week 8 · 19 April 2027
Public third space
Week 9, genuinely shared public space, and what a phone does to the noticing it requires
Week 9 · 26 April 2027
Cultural variation
Week 10, how much of the semester's material is culturally specific, and where this course sits next to existing frameworks
Week 10 · 3 May 2027
Norms shift with life stage
Week 11, why the same household rule looks different at year one and year three
Week 11 · 10 May 2027
Levels of resolution
Final lecture, a de-escalation ladder for shared-space conflict, closing the loop back to Week 1
Week 12 · 17 May 2027