01 · Education & Civic

Curriculums
that talk back.

These aren’t built to be watched. They’re built to be stepped into and added to — fifth grade or college seminar, and it keeps growing because the next student carries it forward.

Middle school through universityRunning summer / fall '26Free for community use

Everything below runs on a school Chromebook · nothing to install

Middle & high school teacher College / university Museum educator Youth center Civic convening Community center Library
MIT and FGCU collaborative group
A circle of voices
Asking together — what we carry into the room.
AJ presenting community work
Sharing the work
A voice in motion — the room listening.
Community gathering
From the field
Where the work begins — on the ground, with people.
Thank you moment
After the conversation
Gratitude as method — the room holds the speaker.
Asset mapping and community altar
Asset mapping · community altar
What this place already holds — named, mapped, honored.
Four ways in

It isn't a film screening.
It's a circle.

Every piece runs on whatever surface the room already has. The curriculum is what makes it education. The civic loop is what makes it civic — whatever a class puts in travels to the next room that opens it.

01 · CURRICULUM

360° curriculums · middle school through university

Interactive 360° pieces students engage with — not just watch. Discussion prompts, dialogue questions, comparison across cultures and decades. Aligned to social studies, ELA, ESOL, ethnic studies, civic studies. Running in university classrooms summer and fall 2026.

Middle school → university · facilitator brief · curriculum guide
02 · WORKSHOPS

Build your own 360° space

Students, youth groups, whole neighbourhoods. We show you how to capture a place, gather the voices, and shape the piece — phone in hand to first cut. What the group makes, the group keeps.

In-person · virtual · cohort projects
03 · CONTENT LIBRARY

A growing library, free for community use

The Table of Free Voices, Parramore / NIYC, the Crossroads, El Mercado Vive — and more arriving. Each piece is a 360° space with discussion prompts, primary sources, and the consent / citation receipts. Free for educator and community use.

CC license · accessible captions · classroom-ready
04 · CIVIC LOOP

The knowledge keeps growing

For our 20th-anniversary TOFV piece, anyone walking through the work — in a planetarium, a science museum, on a phone — can add their own question, voice, or testimony. We hold it. We carry it forward into the next showing.

Add a voice · add a question · we hold the receipts
Open these in a browser · nothing to install

Seven things you could
use Monday morning.

No account, no license key, no IT ticket. All of these run on a school Chromebook. Take the link, put it on the board, see what the room does with it.

PRIMARY SOURCES · LIVE

Ask 116 strangers from 2006 a question

In one day in Berlin, 116 people answered 99 questions on camera — 10,583 answers, all transcribed and attributed. Have a student type in “fear” or “my country” and watch people who have never met answer them across twenty years. Great for ELA, social studies, ethnic studies, and any lesson about evidence.

Searchable archive · real footage · free ↗
PHILOSOPHY · LIVE

Let them argue with Epicurus out loud

He answers in real time from the surviving texts, and cites which one. Students bring him death, or their phone — and he remembers what they brought last time.

Voice · cited to the source · free ↗
FIELD TRIP · LIVE

Stand inside four communities in one period

A Clarksdale juke joint, a Parramore block, the Puebla market, the Berlin table — on a laptop, or hand a Quest around. Each story threads to the one it rhymes with somewhere else. That’s the lesson.

360° / VR · browser or headset · free ↗
STUDENT PROJECT · WALKTHROUGH

Have them build their own world

The unit that lands hardest: students make one. Start from a world we built, record voices from their own block on a phone, place them, hand in a link. It exports as a single file they own.

We open this one with you
DAILY WARM-UP · LIVE

A five-minute civics bell-ringer

A weather report for democracy, rewritten each morning off six public sources — the courts, the Federal Register, Congress, the streets. Eight languages, one written for a kid. Read the sentence; ask the room if they agree.

Daily · 8 languages · with Civic Designers ↗
MAKE SOMETHING · WALKTHROUGH

Turn a word into something alive

A word becomes 3D type that coils, ignites or storms. Open a room and the whole class edits it at once. Good for a warm-up, a poetry unit, or the ten minutes before the bell.

We open this one with you
GET THEM OUTSIDE · LIVE

Turn the block outside into a listening room

Headphones on, walk, and voices rise where they belong. Lay your students’ own recordings along a route past the school — oral history that only plays where the history happened.

GPS sound walk · builder included · free ↗

Want the discussion guide, the standards alignment, or a facilitator on the call the first time you run one? Ask us — that part is free too.

Four rooms, free to use

Four rooms, open now.

Each one is live at its own address, with a discussion guide, primary sources, and a way for students to add their own voice.

How it works · with you

We bring content,
curriculum, and
practice.

We bring the room, the questions, and the practice — or hand the whole thing over so you can run it without us. Most of the time it runs on a projector and a wall, or the screens already on your desks. No dome required.

START · A PILOT

One classroom, one piece

Pick a piece from the library. We provide the curriculum, the discussion guide, and a half-hour facilitator brief. Students engage in their browser. No equipment beyond what's in the room.

GROW · A RESIDENCY

A semester · a cohort

Multi-piece arc — a semester or term across grade levels. Includes a workshop on building 360° spaces. Co-led with Civic Designers; sliding scale available.

HOST · A SCREENING

A community evening · a dome event

Bring the piece to your community center, library, or local planetarium. We help match the venue, provide the file, and share a facilitation guide so the cohort can lead the conversation themselves.

Question 15 of 99 · asked in Berlin, 2006

“Does our education system
really enable a child to bloom?

One hundred and four people answered this one on camera. They do not agree. That disagreement is the lesson — every answer is transcribed, attributed and searchable, so a class can put four of them side by side and argue it out.

Andries Botha
The child doesn’t bloom because of that which it blooms at school.
Andries BothaSculptor · South Africa
Cornel West
It depends on which educational system we are talking about — and it depends on what we mean by bloom.
Cornel WestProfessor · USA
Anuradha Mittal
The way the education system is working today, it does not basically enable a child to bloom.
Anuradha MittalHuman rights · India / USA
Anuradha Koirala
Education is the first tool to mold you as the best human being.
Anuradha KoiralaFormer minister · Nepal
Four of 104 · question 15 of 99 · 10,583 answers in the archive All 10,583 answers
2026 · twenty years to the day

The table is being set again — and this time the question is yours.

Same table, 9 September 2026. Students add the question they carry, and see what other classes — in other countries — are carrying too.

The film · 2 min

“What question do you carry — for the world?”

Play with sound
FOR · CLASSROOMS

Voice the question

Each student adds the question they bring. The class sees what other students — across the country, across the world — are also carrying.

FOR · MUSEUMS & PLANETARIUMS

Host the circle

The piece runs as a fulldome show, a gallery installation, or an immersive multi-wall room. Visitors leave their voice. Each showing keeps growing.

FOR · COMMUNITY

Add your voice

From your phone or kitchen. Speak, type, or sign — in any language. Held with consent and citation.

A fifth grade in Providence · a physicist in Berlin

Nobody had to go anywhere.

A class put on headsets and sat down at a table that was set in 2006. They asked their own question into it. It is still there, with their name on it, for the next class that comes.

The archive · ask us for the password
One way in

Tell us what you’re sitting with.

A room, a class, a group, a question. Write it, say it, or film it — whichever is faster for you.

It goes straight to whoever would actually do the work — no queue, no account manager, no drip. Usually answered inside 48 hours, including “this isn’t for us” if that’s the honest answer.