Chapter 6: Social Change-U

3D Learning, the Simulations Institute, and the Archive Studio will benefit from widespread understanding and participation to effectively bring about social change. In the following three chapters, we’ll introduce three educational institutions that will increase...

Chapter 7: The Family Academy

This chapter falls in the center of the book because families are the center of society and the organization upon which all meaningful social change hinges. Unfortunately, a variety of factors have contributed to the decentralization, dissolution, and...

Chapter 8: Hearts to Children

Have you ever wondered how we can call, text, email, video chat, and communicate in unprecedented ways, but still be disconnected? Despite our rapidly-expanding technology, we seem to find it difficult to communicate what matters most with those who matter most. As...
Chapter 9: Lifecast App

Chapter 9: Lifecast App

We have introduced three catalysts for social change and three educational organizations that employ these catalysts. In the next three chapters, we will talk about infrastructure: the forms we will work to put in place to support the social change organizations The...

Chapter 10: City Plat, the Family Campus

The second infrastructure solution is physical, and is an extensive undertaking. If the Lifecast App is the digital warehouse for social change concepts and ideas, the City Plat, or Family Campus, is the lab where those ideas can be carried out and experimented with. ...

Chapter 11: Capacity for Change

The third infrastructure solution is actually a framework for individuals, families, and communities to take inventory of where they are and where they want to go. This tool, called Capacity for Change, is a method for analysis that prompts change for communities and...