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Tutes

The twelve-week teaching schedule: what happens in each tute, what to prepare, and what leaves the room.

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Know thyself first

The first Tute, because before you can read a room, you need a working read on your own baseline

Week 1 · 22 February 2027

Third place

Week 2, Oldenburg's third place, and whether you have one

Week 2 · 1 March 2027

Civil inattention

Week 3, Goffman's civil inattention, and what a phone screen does to it

Week 3 · 8 March 2027

Proxemics

Week 4, Hall's distance zones, measured against your own diagnosis space

Week 4 · 15 March 2027

Home and share houses

Week 5, the unwritten rulebook that runs a shared home, and who enforces it

Week 5 · 22 March 2027

Hygiene as a shared-space issue

Week 6, personal hygiene as something a shared space silently enforces, not a personal virtue

Week 6 · 29 March 2027

Workplace

Week 7, coexisting with colleagues you didn't choose, professionally

Week 7 · 12 April 2027

Studio

Week 8, shared creative and maker spaces, noise, mess and equipment

Week 8 · 19 April 2027

Public third space

Week 9, parks, libraries and cafés as everyone's space, and what phones do to that

Week 9 · 26 April 2027

Cultural variation

Week 10, testing the semester's assumptions against a culture that isn't the classroom's default

Week 10 · 3 May 2027

Norms shift with life stage

Week 11, the same household's rules, renegotiated as the people in it change

Week 11 · 10 May 2027

Levels of resolution

Week 12, a de-escalation ladder for shared-space conflict, and why it starts with Week 1

Week 12 · 17 May 2027