XQ Super School Touring Experience
Crowdsourcing the future of high school from the students who live it.
Overview
When Laurene Powell Jobs launched a national challenge to rethink high school, she knew the answer wouldn't come from a boardroom. It had to come from the classroom. We partnered with the Emerson Collective to design a mobile "think tank" that traveled across the country to ask a single, radical question: What should high school look like? By creating a space for honest feedback, we turned students into the architects of their own education.
Partners
Showman Fabricators, MAL / FORGOOD
Services
Exhibit Design, Media Design, Media & Software Development
“The hunger for change is real, and we’re offering up the tools to communities to make it happen.”
The Details
We bypassed the typical survey format in favor of a high-fidelity recording studio on wheels. Using a custom iPad interface with open-ended prompts, we guided participants past simple complaints and into deep structural critiques. From the Bronx to Oakland, we collected thousands of hours of testimony—creating a living archive of ideas that is now directly informing the design of the next generation of American schools.
