Designed as part of an interdisciplinary studio with architecture and interior design students, Classmob finds its roots in the hacker/maker/DIY culture of San Francisco as well as current social and educational trends of decentralization and mobility.

 

Classmob is a subscription service consisting of specially designed vans (with furniture) and an online/app-based presence. It can be likened to a sort of Zipcar for education. Teach a class, or RSVP to one. Charge for classes, or keep it free. Classmob's infrastructure is kept minimal, but carefully designed to accomodate a range of uses. Each Classmob truck and its associated furniture expands into a variety of configurations, allowing for a range of pre-determined learning archetypes (solo learner, collaborative learner, builder/hacker, etc) as well as class sizes and scales (individual, small, and large). Workbenches accomodate builders. Small, individual pods and table areas on the outside of the truck accomodate solo learners. Lounge style seating accomodates collaborative/social learners.

 

The application/web side of Classmob positions itself as utility as well as service, allowing the user to not only find 'mobs' happening near them and communicate with the network/its other users, but also building a corpus of knowledge about the user based on their class attendance habits, over it to over time suggest classes and 'course structures' that may work for the user's individual learning style and trajectory.