The Urban Social Design Association announces the launch of the project "Urban Social Design Experience": a series of on-line courses (or experiences) for students and professionals interested in exploring new tools, dynamics, and methodologies for participation, collective creation, networking, new technologies, urban culture and social innovation. It is an expanded education or educommunication project; a learning process that goes beyond the institutional boundaries, the traditional topics or methodologies; a process in which it is particularly important design thinking, the concept of laboratory as workspace, the process, the dissolution of boundaries between the professional and the amateur, innovation as an engine of knowledge and the commons as a research tool and interface. The courses are called Experiences, since education is not conceived as a simple knowledge transfer, but offer enrollees the opportunity to live an expanded educational experience. The teachers of each experience or "consultants" are professionals with experience and ability to innovate, and whose function is to coordinate and streamline the process of expanded education. The course experience is structured with weekly online group, individual sessions and constant monitoring of the consultant on the development and evolution of the personal project of participants over three months. Urban Social Design launches the first 3 courses starting on February 14 with a duration of 3 months. The registration period is open until 26 February. Course fee: 250 euros. The registration process is done through the web urbansocialdesign.org / usde Urban Social Design Association is an initiative promoted by ecosistema urbano and aims to: - Research and promote Urban Social Design, understood as the design of spaces and processes to improve social relations, creating the conditions for self-organization and interaction between people and their urban environment. - Create a digital space as a meeting place of different knowledge and disciplines: architecture, engineering, technology, urban planning, geography, politics, communication, sociology, participation, etc. .. - Promote networking, free culture, the use of new technologies and social innovation. -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens