A collaborative online exploration of our modern world through the humanities, wrapped in a bite-sized weekend experience. LIVE 4-6 DEC 2020

<aside> 🗄️ This is an archived landing page for the CHIP Weekender, which took place between 4-6 December, 2020. Want to learn more about how it went? Contact us 💌

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The CHIP Weekender is a digital-native course for curious people interested in learning and growing as thoughtful inhabitants of our modern world, together.

Live, online, collaborative

Unlike most online courses, the Weekender doesn't revolve around pre-recorded lectures or live-but-passive webinars. Instead, the focus is on real-time interactive human learning — two-way listening, thoughtful conversation, and exploring meaty material with experienced and enthusiastic guides.

Exploration, liberal-arts-style

The Weekender is modeled after the essence of the liberal-arts college experience: engaging with broad-based perspectives and critical humanistic thinking on contemporary issues through interdisciplinary, discussion-based learning. Don't expect textbooks, tests, or job-focused skills.

A weekend trip for the mind

The Weekender is designed to be beginner-friendly and accessible. No need for degrees or academic backgrounds. Think of it as an excursion for your mind. Whether beginner or scholar, however, you'll want to come prepared — with solid content and rigorous approach (scalable to all levels), it's thinking caps required!

The Weekender Experience

Structured as a 48-hour 'learnathon', the Weekender will run from roughly 7pm Friday to 7pm Sunday (Dec 4-6), with:

• Live scheduled (required) sessions on Fri evening, Sat afternoon, Sun afternoon (~8 hours total).
• Self-paced learning segments over the nights + mornings (between 2-12 hours total as you like).

An overview of the Weekender experience

Solo + Social + Supported

The Weekender has been designed as a blend of both 'solo' and 'social' learning segments, with live support available all weekend.

• Solo — segments for individual reading, sense-making, and essaying (with online support).
• Social — sessions for active learning in smaller and larger groups with facilitators.
• Supported — live online personalized support offered all weekend. Our generous learner-guide ratio ensures support is available whenever anyone needs it.

Quests & Challenges: Choose Your Own

The Weekender's open-ended approach lets you mix and match your modules:

1. Quests — curated sets of study material organized around key questions, designed to help you explore and engage with the underlying ideas of social theory and humanistic inquiry.
2. Challenges — exercises and prompts relating to the quests to help you 'essay' (attempt) your way through new questions and ideas, developing your thinking along the way.

What We'll Explore

Our theme for the CHIP Weekender is Messy Modernities — below are some quests to look forward to 🤓

Sample Quests