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NEXT.cc K-12 Initiative

NEXT.cc Eco Web is an educational non profit introducing what design is, what it does and why it is important to teachers, students and their families
Organization Name: 
NEXT.cc
Web Address: 
http://www.next.cc/
Contact Person Name: 
Linda Keane, AIA
Title: 
Professor of Architecture and Environmental Design, Director of NEXT.cc
Email: 
lkeane@saic.edu
Address 1: 
4200 North Lake Drive
City: 
Shorewood
State: 
WI
Zip Code: 
53211
Country: 
USA
Phone: 
312-629-6650
Organization Type: 
Arts/Cultural Non-Profit
Types of Programming Offered: 
Family Programs
High School Programs
K – 8 Programs
Teacher Training
Adult Education
Public Programs/Lectures
Classroom Visits/Career Day
Continuing Education
Conferences/Symposium
Organization Description: 

eco web

 

NEXT.cc is an eco web that develops ethical imagination and environmental stewardship. NEXT.cc introduces what design is, what design does, and why design is important. It offers activities across nine scales- nano, pattern, object, space, architecture, neighborhood, urban, region, and world. NEXT.cc’s 130+ journeys integrate over 1300 museums, institutions and contemporary practices. NEXT.cc plans to reach 45 million third grade through twelfth grade students, their teachers and their families with meaningful learning experiences that create positive influence on lives.

mission

 

PROMOTE stewardship of the environment

INSPIRE wonder of the built and natural world

CONNECT the classroom in an eco-web community

ENABLE teachers as collaborators empowering youth-led active project learning

CRITIQUE and impact consumption

PROPOSE humanitarian solutions to social problems

ADVOCATE conscientious alternative living strategies

 

history

NEXT.cc is a collaborative effort by principals, teachers, architects, artists and students. Founded as an educational non-profit in 2007(after 2002 and 2004 pilots) NEXT.cc researches and creates transdisciplinary journeys that engage local ideas with global practices. Participants move from the computer into the community and learn about themselves, their neighbors, and their friends as they engage history and culture of place and explore design possibilities.

 

partners

NEXT.cc is partnered with Earth Day Network, US Green Charter Schools, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum and the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. NEXT.cc staff reached over 2000 teachers and 10,000 students since the inception of the eco web in 2007.

 

awards

USGBC Excellence in Green Building Education Award                        2009

SAIC Presidential Urban Engagement Award                                        2009

American Architectural Foundation Merit Award                                    2009

National Endowment for the Arts Design Education Award                   2008

American Architectural Foundation Merit Award                                    2006

 

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