First Landing Prototype
A proposed six-week place-based learning journey exploring how water shapes land, life, history, and the future of Virginia Beach.
View projectFrom questions to prototypes.
OWLL develops learning journeys, mentor systems, field tools, and infrastructure through research, design, testing, and release. Not every project is at the same stage of maturity.
Current focus
The clearest public expressions of work underway now.
LOCUS
An emerging learning system connecting real-world experience, Field Notes, guided inquiry, mentorship, practice, creation, reflection, and cumulative growth.
View projectExploratory and origin work
Earlier concepts and origin studies that inform the lab but are not equally mature.
Open World Saturdays
A future mentor-supported Saturday learning experience designed to rebuild motivation, self-awareness, confidence, and a love of learning through the real world.
View projectOpen World Tahoe
The Tahoe thought experiment that began the lab: what might education become if the lake, mountain, trail, and community formed an interconnected learning environment?
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