XQ Super School Touring Experience
Overview
Crowdsourcing the future of high school from the students who live it.
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
“The hunger for change is real, and we’re offering up the tools to communities to make it happen.”
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.
