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CyberONE A Sustainable and Catalyst Solution for Higher Education Today June 2011 Marcela Oliva, LACCD Sustainable

Building Program/LATTC Architecture Professor and NASA KM Team Group Need Why do we need to rethink our environments? Obstacles What is blocking this transformation? CyberONE How would a new parallel system look? Program and Typology What are the parts of this new system? Examples Can we do it? Author What was the promise? olivam@lattc.edu

The CyberONE is a proposal to respond to The Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge is designed to help regions achieve the demonstrated benefits of collaborative, cluster-based regional development. This initiative represents the implementation of Administration policy priorities to accelerate bottom-up innovation in urban, rural and blended geographies, as opposed to imposing one size fits all solutions. The Jobs Accelerator also meets Administration goals for smarter use of existing government resources through reduction of siloed Federal programs and promotion of more coordinated Federal funding opportunities that offer more efficient access to Federal resources. The objectives of the Jobs Accelerator are to: Accelerate the formation of new high-growth businesses and growth of existing businesses; Accelerate the creation of high-wage jobs; Advance the commercialization of research, including Federally-funded research; Support the deployment of new processes, new technologies, and new products to grow sales and create jobs; Enhance the capacity of small businesses in the cluster, including small and disadvantaged businesses; Increase exports and business interaction with international buyers and suppliers; Develop the skilled workforce needed to support growing clusters; and Ensure diverse workforce participation in clusters through outreach, training and the creation of career pathways The CyberONE facilitates the integration of Presidential Climate Action Plan. Great changes of important magnitude are necessary to create an effective response to global warming call for more than incremental adjustments in policy. They will represent a transformation of our economy and our infrastructure in creative and positive ways that will fuel economic growth, protect our communities and the quality of life we cherish, and allow our civilization to flourish. Many of the technologies and tools for achieving climate neutrality already exist or are in development. Now, all of us at Americas higher educational institutions need to put these pieces together in a way that creates a new foundation for growth, prosperity and peace. We must tap the research, education and public service missions and harness all of the scientific, technological and pedagogical resources at the disposal of our institutions. By creating and implementing coordinated plans to neutralize our campuses global warming impact within a generation, we can drive the scientific innovation and public education necessary to catalyze rapid change

Need Why do we need to rethink our environments? It is time for our nation to have a smart system to manage the built environment, provide agile educational solutions for all, use our natural resources efficiently, use business enterprise solutions, and consider all these variables at the same time. Our neighborhoods can be empowered to document, design, build, and maintain their own places. We need to rethink our educational environments, as pointed out by Dian Senechal in The Most Daring Education Reform of All, by Nora S. Newcombe in Improving Spatial Thinking, and by Diane Ravitch in In Need of a RenaissanceA Real Reform Will Renew, Not Abandon Our Neighborhood, all of which appeared in the AFT (American Federation of Teachers) American Educator Magazine in summer 2010. The open door is closed to many students in our communities. It is difficult to fund a class, a project, or an initiative when so many complex variables need to be taken into consideration, such as the population background, socio-economic forces, and new technologies. In addition to this complexity and budget crisis, current needs demand that educational facilities utilize the most efficient systems for energy, water, and land. It is important to understand that ensuring that buildings, campuses, and cities to save energy, use recycled materials, operate renewable products, and harvest rainwater is only one step toward a sustainable living environment. STAR Community Index (a pioneering strategic planning and performance

management corporation) has pointed out that sustainable solutions address interconnected economic, environmental, and social concerns. Challenges of great magnitude encumber change in our communities and impair the ability to address issues in unified ways. Current solutions do not focus on multiple variables, do not transform, do not selforganize, and do not sustain. Duplication of information and fragmentation of services create cumbersome responses and solutions. For instance, zip codes with the largest number of faith organizations and nonprofit organizations do not necessarily transform the life of our communities.

CyberONE is a catalyst for current educational environments and transformations for our neighborhoods. It is a new place for learning, making, innovating, and manufacturing to meet local needs. CyberONE trains the local talent and virtually connects them to NASA scientists, experts throughout the nation, and experts from around the world. Using the CyberONE integrated curriculum, innovative spaces for learning, nature templates, and universal principles, the community can design and digitally fabricate urgently needed storefronts, greenhouses, energy strategies, eco-centers, recyclable objects, fences, food gardens, pocket parks, mobile health clinics, business incubators, food gardens, mobile health clinics, and other spaces. CyberONE solutions are individualized and customized, like a snowflake shaped and formed by local needs. Todays mechanical reductive approach to life inhibits the growth and well-being of our nation. There is an urgency to implement a new type of holistic environment, one that self-organizes through a loop and acts as a unit. Current sustainable environment movements have tendencies that are specialized, and as a result social equity is frequently ignored or not understood. Social equity is a human right. All people should be able to create and invent through education, move through transportation, be protected through shelter, live healthily through medical resources and life standards, transform space through architecture, and become civilized through policy and legal systems. All present and future humans can be healthy, have their basic needs met, have fair and equitable access to the Earths resources, have a decent quality of life, and preserve the biologically diverse ecosystems on which we all depend. This is a system based on abundance and creation instead of scarcity and consumption. An article titled The Need for a New Human Perspective by Dr. Anthony D. Cortese, president of Second Nature, states that The degradation of natural systems is likely to accelerate with the addition of 78 million people to the planet each year unless strategies to meet human needs are made more sustainable and just. Currently, 83 percent of the worlds resources are being consumed by 20 percent of the worlds population. The worlds poorest 20 percent earn 1.4 percent of the worlds income. According to the UN Development Program, the income ratio of the richest 20 percent to the poorest 20 percent was 30:1 in 1960 and 61:1 in 1994. For 30 percent of the worlds population, poor sanitation, malnutrition, and air pollution are still the major causes of illness and death. The rural poor continue to migrate and become transformed into an urban poor, thereby exacerbating environmental health and social problems. By the year 2005, for the first time in history, more people will live in urban than in rural areas. By human or not human intervention the drastic climate changes in the planet earth is a fact and the social indicators present a crisis in our civilization; health, population, poverty, starvation, financial and others. We can basically conclude we are out of balance.

Obstacles What is blocking this transformation?

Some of the practices that inhibit an integrated approach are a failure to tap local talent due to false filters; a failure to utilize geospatial information when spatial decisions are made; solutions that use only one sphere of knowledge; forgetting that math, music, astronomy, and geometry are only tools to understand the Earth; not acting as a network; and not understanding the power of space and design. -Sphere of Knowledge For the last 100 years, knowledge has been kept hermetically sealed within one sphere. The solution requires that all of these spheres become interdependent. The solution requires an integrated approach, but due to the mechanical age mentality, society has become accustomed to segmented and reductionist thinking, leading to isolated and short-term solutions with endless unrelated boundaries. It is easy to conclude that a new comprehensive solution using all the spheres of knowledge is required. It is in the relationship among all the spheres of knowledge where the balance can be found. These spheres include natural systems, the built environment, economic forces, social drivers, and innovative education. To contribute to humankinds true well-being, integration and interdependence among various spheres of knowledge with space are necessary. This is the natural evolution for educationan integrated approach via physical and immersive environments that connects local talent to national resources to solve local needs and compete globally.

-Disciplines Are Tools Math, geometry, astronomy, and music were disciplines studied by Plato; he called them the Quadrivium from the Pythagorean School and mentioned them repeatedly in his book The Republic. Together, they awaken the mind to a universal order, freeing the mind from its bondage of mere shadows on the cave wall, as Plato would say. By studying the links and intersections among these disciplines, one learns to recognize relationships and patterns in nature. Disciplines are tools to help us understand natural systems. We invented music to understand cycles and patterns, geometry to see shapes and forms from nature, astronomy to measure forces and movements, and mathematics to imitate and integrate it all into all human endeavors. Disciplines are, in essence, tools to help us be part of the Earth and follow its beauty. But even with 13,000 satellites, we are not part of it. We became so specialized that we forgot what we were studying. The etymology for these words facilitates the essence and understanding of these words; math is to know, to care, and to learn it all. This integrative approach has demonstrated great success at the LATTC Architecture Program.

-The Power of Space Space and form are the canvases for an architect, and for the last hundred years architecture schools have focused largely on personal symbolic abstraction, language paradoxes, and formal gymnastics rather than integrating the embodied energy of all resources, cognitive experiences, and new materials during the creation of space and form. A task force from the AIA (American Institute of Architecture) recently wrote a document titled The Redesign of the Architecture Studio, which emphasizes the value of including stronger social concerns and the need to react to location and space. The first act of human intention is to create, augment, and connect with the environment. The creation and transformation of the built environment is a human right, and the disconnection between user and space creates unsustainable places destined for failure and decay. Architecture needs to design systems of participation, and the process and maintenance need to embrace all stakeholders. A foremost authority on education, the Carnegie Foundation, concluded in a report titled Boyer: Building that never in history have the talents, skills, broad vision, and ideals of the architecture profession been more urgently needed. The lack of understanding can be identified as: The professions failure to understand and respond to the core concerns of American families, businesses, schools, communities, and society The tendency of architecture schools to focus on credentials at the expense of preparing architects for their larger public service role The general failure of American schools and colleges to make knowledge of architecture and design an essential part of a liberal education for all students The lack of using geometry to organize places, space, and objects. Using geometry creates order and balance.

The environment has a great influence on how we communicate, behave, think, create, and produce. The relationship between the natural and human-made environment has a profound influence on our cognition and mental models. The motion, cycles, patterns, harmony, proportion, rhythm, and balance between space and form resonate at a cellular level and affect the senses, creativity, health, and performance. The Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture supports this growing understanding of human responses to the built environment. Notable studies about patterns by Christopher Alexander, emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley, address how sequences promise to be tools of wider scope than buildings, just as his theory of space goes beyond architecture.

-The Power of Design The LATTC Architecture Program has demonstrated that through a system of participation, holistic understanding, and nature pattern templates, students can generate unprecedented design solutions accessible to all. Current efforts demonstrate the importance of design for future generations. The RSA (Royal Society of the Arts) argues that design and society will be fundamental to closing the gap between behavior and aspiration because of the particular resourcefulness that designers represent. The RSAs central mission is to foster good citizenship by closing the gap between our everyday behavior and the future to which we aspire. To close this gap, contemporary society needs to be more resourceful: its citizens more engaged, self-reliant, and collective in their striving. A combination of professionalization, bureaucracy, and consumerism has reduced our resources of common competence, and as citizens we often appear to be less resourceful than ever. At the same time, our consumption has diminished the Earths resources, and we now have fewer resources of energy and natural material at our disposal. Ready to improvise and prototype, brave in the face of disorder and complexity, holistic and people-centered in their approach to defining problems, designers have a vital role to play today in making society itself more resourceful. Empathic sociability prepares the groundwork for empathic civilization. For over 250 years, the RSA has been a cradle of enlightenment thinking and a force for social progress. Its approach is multidisciplinary and politically independent, and it combines cutting-edge research and policy development with practical action.

-Untapped Talent Howard Gardner, Ph.D., is the founding father of the Multiple Intelligences Theory and a former senior co-director of Harvard Universitys Project Zero. The primary intelligences identified by Gardner include linguistic, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and nature intelligence. Linguistic and logical mathematical intelligences are the most studied in current educational environments and the ones considered when students apply to universities. Unfortunately, many students with very high spatial intelligence are declined acceptance to universities. This situation explains the crises in education and science in our country and the world. Science can be abstracted through logical mathematical intelligences or visual spatial intelligence; new 3-D modeling programs require mostly the second abstraction. The new knowledge worker, modern science, and modeling computer tools require spatial intelligence to move around multiple environments and to connect data to visual information. Our communities are full of great visual thinkers with the capability to think in images and orient themselves spatially.

- Network Moving from centralized, decentralized to network strategies is essential for any organization that wants to grow green and smart. To grow green means to use all natural and human resources in the most efficient way, and to grow smart is to use all the new tools to connect through networks. The United Nations Public Administration Network and RedLich International (a leading company in network solutions and mind-mapping services) estimate that 85 percent of success for any organization is based on the efficiency of its networks. Some of the outcomes from a network are knowledge management, agile information transfer, embedded skill and training services, and feedback loops for improvements. It is only through the use of networks that an organization can separate relevant from irrelevant information and develop real-time information for improvement. Knowledge consists of concepts available to process information and guide action. Knowledge now refers to the smart use of know-how. In a knowledge economy, more and more tasks involve thinking process, seeing cycles, getting feedback, and transforming.

CyberONE How would a new parallel system look? CyberONE is a multifaceted effort to engage all challenges facing our communities today. This revolutionary partnership will leverage natural resources, technologies, and investments to change our neighborhoods and support the national infrastructure. This new, integrated information will enable informed decision making at all levels of society. It is a low cost investment and a very powerful change. It will help to mitigate issues pertaining to finance, natural disasters, climate changes, security, health, science, dilapidated neighborhoods, high school dropouts, and poverty. A.CyberONE functions under the parameters specified by the objectives below. Attaining these objectives will ensure ACTION a new kind of living, one that is completely connected and sustainable: 1. Environment Grow smart through synergetic and cybernetic spaces 2. Ecology Grow green by using renewables and aligning to the Earths systems 3. Economy Transform locally by using digital fabrication and manufacturing to local needs 4. Entrepreneurship Compete globally by using innovation and incubators 5. Education Transfer knowledge through innovation 6. Empower Access to creation through nature templates , digital computation and fabrication 7. Enterprise Use standards, high-end tools, social media, and human potential

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An available service for sustainability is called Open Sustainability, an open-source framework. The complexity of the situation comes from the scale of the problem, the inter-dependencies between different areas of sustainable development and their crossing of international boundaries. A number of initiatives to reduce carbon emissions, for example, will have a negative impact on poverty in the developing world. Other inter-dependencies will be more difficult to predict. For some issues we simply do not have solutions yet and innovation is required, but this is hampered by a lack of common performance goals, the fear of failing on big bets, and the risk of causing greater damage. This means we need technological innovationadvanced informatics for measurement and solution delivery techniques that simulate a prototyping-based technology approach, enabling ideas to be brought to market quickly in a way that still limits risk. CyberONE produces environments with a feedback loop. Cyber refers to a mechanism that consists of a belt and the gears that move it. The gears are the mind, the virtual world, model computation, natural systems, and human-made environments. The belt is the interdependence among the forces that make it move toward a new existenceONE. CyberONE requires environments to be synergetic and cybernetic. Synergetic environments provide a platform for the integration of all variables and a synthesis of complex information at the same time, where the whole is larger than the sum of the individual parts. Buckminster Fuller, a winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and one of the greatest inventors of the 20th century, created the word synergetic to explain that the world solution is to design a system based on synergy. Each environment needs to be organized and standardized so that it can be quantified and qualified and eventually aligned in synchronicity. All these environments working together augment human existence. Such organization is not an easy task since the environment, the machine, and nature have in the past been considered distinctly unrelated. Synergetic and cybernetic environments reunite these estranged areas and provide a problem-solving approach that looks at any situation from multiple perspectives.

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George Bugliarello, president emeritus, university professor, and former chancellor of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, explains this phenomenon as a paradigm for environmental engineering: the biosoma paradigmwhich considers the interaction of the natural inanimate inorganic environment with the Earths biological systemshumans and other speciestheir social entities, and their machines (i.e., their artifacts). Matrices that systematize these interactions can help the design process in environmental engineering to take advantage of the intrinsic differences in predictability, performance, and other characteristics of each component of the paradigm. This can lead to a broader view of environmental engineering design and education, and of disaster prevention and mitigation.. CyberONE is the type of template and matrix to which Dr. Bugliarello is referring. CyberONE looks at nature, socioeconomic forces, and the built environment in a new way. For nature systems, it rewards energy savings, facilitates material efficiency, discourages waste and inefficiencies, and transforms consumption-oriented economies into creative-local manufacturing economies. For economic forces, it aligns procedures and technology, ensures that natural resources are used wisely, improves business performance, facilitates core services, and guarantees efficiency. For social purposes, such as for youth and nontraditional students, it presents new, immense visual computation capabilities to record, document, and analyze their neighborhoods. For the life cycle, it uses enterprise strategies, national intelligence, and high-level standards to assess, design, produce, and display innovative solutions.

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Program and Typology CyberONE is a new type of environmenta new typology. A typology identifies different types of places, such as library, house, mission, city hall, etc. CyberONE is an analog location and virtual place with five interconnected areas: a simulation model room, geospatial laboratories, immersive digital environments, a brain room, digital fabrication, and innovative learning. CyberONE has knowledge management and multiple tools such as smart systems, geospatial systems, social networks, digital fabrication, and others. These spaces can be as small as a classroom or as big as a school.

-Simulation Model Room The simulation model room makes it possible to quantify and qualify all human interaction with the built and the natural environments. It illuminates dependencies, identifies relationships, and helps us see patterns and relationships we could not see before. The simulation models are frameworks to understand the tension between creativity and productivity, convergence, and divergence, as well as the forces of compression such as the devices that bridge individual differences and identity. A simulation room is a virtual and analog space, a geometric illustration and visual model of the current reality and potential situations. It collects all existing information and identifies urgent needs, difficult challenges, and unique opportunities. By creating 3-D visual models of all the variables in space, it enables the user to quickly and efficiently identify problem areas and easy solutions.

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-Geospatial Laboratories Geospatial data and environmental information should be maintained locally and closest to source, and then shared with the nation through online services. Unique and custom solutions need to be recorded and analyzed, taking advantage of unique assets, materials, solutions, and possible contributions from the small to the large. All participants will be able to design, plan, visualize, model, and simulate green project solutions. As the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) has pointed out, a properly designed and effectively implemented space will provide enormous downstream economic growth as the backbone for a new spatially enabled information economy capable of supporting our national physical infrastructure investments. The CyberONE geospatial studio is a distributed data and information technology asset under distributed ownership and management of the NSDI, which is a foundation for next-generation industries and technologies. The NSDI 2.0 is based on two established public information networksthe NSDI and the National Environmental Information Exchange Network (NEIEN). The existing NSDI is an information network intended solely to share geospatial information. As defined by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), the United States NSDI includes the technology, policies, criteria, standards, and people to promote geospatial information sharing throughout all levels of government and the private and nonprofit sectors. The Academia Information Technology & Innovation Foundation indicates that for every $1 billion in funds spent on such infrastructure, over 30,000 jobs are created. ITIF studies also indicate that investments in infrastructure at an early stage of development, such as a national spatial data infrastructure, will create even more jobs, because new jobs are generated by upstream investments in industries that create new and innovative applications and services to take advantage of the more robust IT network. CyberONE is aware of the importance of the built environment and its place in society. A revolution in architecture and environmental design has taken place. New toolsGIS, CAD, Rapid Prototype, BIM, and 3-D Modelinghave facilitated an unprecedented analytical and comprehensive means of looking at human-made ecosystems. With these new lenses, we are able to see patterns and relationships that we could not see before. These new tools hold the promise to help us sustain ourselves on the planet. While some of these tools have been used successfully in design and construction for many years, they now support a broad range of additional applications, such as First Response, National Intelligence, Operations Planning, Emergency Management, and the Americans with Disabilities Act, safety, space utilization, and neighborhood planning. The LACCD e7 Architecture Studio Internship program has developed the largest and most accurate spatial data system to serve communication through visualization. The program has standardized information and supports access to data for facilities and operation.

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-Immersive Digital Environments Immersive digital environments (such as Second Life or interactive video games) work as a network and take advantage of the economy of scale. Great supporters for this effort include the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Learning Technologies Project Office (LTPO), and Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN). They can conduct research and provide evaluations on the design and usage of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) and Persistent Immersive Synthetic Environments (virtual worlds) for NASA Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education and Training. Using digital models of buildings and campuses, the student can create avatar, and teleport to another college while sitting at a local college or home. The sense of location is not lost; the student can connect to the right class and the right outcome that he or she is looking for.

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-Innovative Learning Environments CyberONE is based on the premise that each person has a mission and purpose in life with an ever-evolving web of experiences, goals, and interactions. He or she discovers these through connection with the community, the natural world, and an active participation with the built environment. This integrated experience stimulates the sensory system, affecting the intellect and inspiring a desire to create and participate. Students who graduate from synergetic environments are great assets; they support the state and local government agencies that maintain the high-quality spatial data for our agencies, businesses, and services, which include streets, streams, parcels, addresses, tax mapping, aerial photography, critical infrastructure, elevation data, environmental interests, permitted facility locations, public transit, economic incentive areas, safety and security, and other important spatial datasets. CyberONE sees architecture as a social mechanism that stimulates the sensory system and the desire to create by means of spatial languages and computer technologies. The integrated curriculum of CyberONE uses nature templates to facilitate the design of objects and places. For more information, see Exhibits C and D. The CyberONE environments provide agile and customized solutions for each student; it provides the right proportion and relationship between the task and skill that need to be mastered and the students background and knowledge

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-Brain Room The brain room works with two prime concepts: Federal Enterprise Architecture and life cycles. In February 2002, the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) initiated the development of a Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) to identify opportunities for improving the delivery, development, and management of federal government functions. The strategic outcome of FEA is a government-wide transformation to a more citizen-centric, customer-focused enterprise that leverages technology investments to achieve optimal mission outcomes. When fully implemented, FEA will provide a holistic model for improving federal government performance through investments in information technology (IT). As environmental awareness increases, industries and businesses are assessing how their activities affect the environment. The five executable are performance (metrics and measurements), procedures (methodologies like green standards), IT (interoperability), resources (natural and human), mission (the main goal of the organization), and business (management of efficiency). Life cycle stages include assess, plan and program, design, build, operate, and go back to assess. Society has become concerned about the issues of natural resource depletion and environmental degradation. Many businesses have responded to this awareness by providing greener products and using greener processes. The environmental performance of products and processes has become a key issue, which is why some companies are investigating ways to minimize their effects on the environment. Many companies have found it advantageous to explore ways of moving beyond compliance using pollution-prevention strategies and environmental management systems to improve their environmental performance. One such tool is LCA. This concept considers the entire life cycle of a product (Curran 1996). CyberONE uses the Federal Enterprise Architecture and life cycle calculators, and it collaborates with United States Green Building Council Standards Metrics. Environments that are synergetic and cybernetic provide a solution for the Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). It is a model for leadership under Challenge: Information Technology R&D in a Competitive World, and it complies with the NSFs Directorates for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and Engineering (ENG). Environments that are synergetic and cybernetic facilitate compliance with NIST cybersecurity. In addition, these environments will facilitate the presidents American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI). This new platform will facilitate various NSF initiatives across the U.S. educational system ranging from secondary school to graduate-level instruction. Due to its integrated approach, CyberONE creates a platform for collaboration to facilitate preparation of Rapid Response Research (RAPID), Climate Change Education (CCE), Climate Change Education Partnership (CCEP), and Fostering Interdisciplinary Research on Education (FIRE). It will contribute toward the American Graduation Initiative: Stronger American Skills through Community College. The bio model below is an integration of the Federal Enterprise Architecture with the life cycle of the built environment. The Federal Enterprise is considered at each stage of the Life Cycle of a Building, City or Country.

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-Digital Fabrication Digital Fabrication is a new paradigm in manufacturing; it is a low cost computer workshop to basically do anything a human wants; an idea of empowering individuals to create objects and places that are adapted to specific needs. This is a new environment that emphasizes freedom of design and innovation. The ability to directly fabricate functional custom objects will transform the way we design, make, deliver and consume products. The most critical transformation will be redefinition of a designer and the act of creation through making. The CyberONE Digital fabrication templates from nature patterns will eliminate the many of the barriers of resource and skill that currently prevent ordinary people to realizing their own ideas. The CyberONE will open the door to new independent designers, a marketplace, and a new economy of custom products. Just like Google, Amazon and Facebook changed the world, digital fabrication intersection is expected to transform it exponentially even more. It is a parallel grassroots economics developing through communities and connections. MIT under the direction of N. Gershenfeld developed a digital fabrication called FAB LAB which included a laser cutter, a miniature milling machine and jigsaw cutting machine. The FABLAB shared and taught these new resources to ordinary people and they produced unprecedented innovations and solutions in the computer world. The CyberONE digital fabrication augments to the solution with design templates found in nature and the universe which guarantee success. These templates organize geometry for architecture, urban planning, interior design, furniture making, object making, visual computation and others. CyberONE supports business innovation and ecological thinking with inexpensive, simple, safe and intuitive multiple environments to operate and experiment. CyberONE templates driven from Leonardo Da Vinci hold the universal order for design, computation and organized systems. They are based on the geometry, cycles and movements from nature. On the right image below is Leonardo Da Vincis investigation drawings, every single invention he made was derived from these drawings. On the left are CAD/BIM/GIS/CNC templates from the CyberONE.

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Conclusion Now is the time for our country to build new environments for creation, knowledge exchange, production, and consumption. Our human evolution has arrived at a point where they can all merge. Individually, each of the environments has developed capacities, robustness, matrices, repositories, standards, and spatial qualitative/quantitative measurements. Using the economy of scale via immersive environments, CyberONE connects talents, services, and partnerships for exponential innovation and implementation throughout the nation and the world. CyberONE draws together disparate literatures, as they synthesize knowledge from diverse fields to articulate a common visual framework. The world has moved from one size fits all to personalized solutions that can hold multiple perspectives and many layers of information connected to location and space. This change increases our nations capacity for innovation, security, participation, health, jobs, and creation of engaged civilians. CyberONE outcomes create emerging innovative devices. The solutions are tailored to either local or personal needs in new ways that were not practical or economical using mass production. New personal fabrication, prototype manufacturing, digital infrastructure, environmental care, will materialize naturally and exponentially. CyberONE provides a unification of order, balance, and structure among all fields with an unprecedented transformation for the new knowledge economy. CyberONE is a dynamic solution that can utilize both past and present technological innovations. It is a high-reward solution that can support the transformation of homes, schools, neighborhoods, agencies, and industries for the 21st-century infrastructure. This approach breaks down the barriers among previously divided fields, uniting mathematics, computer science, liberal arts, humanities, science, music, engineering, architecture, and nature. This new type of environment uses spatial tools and information management to connect all the spheres of knowledge.

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Examples CYBER NEIGHBORHOOD Imagine that you are walking through your neighborhood and see dilapidated storefronts, rundown parks, and an overall impression of disheartening disempowerment. You want to clean up your community, but you dont even know how to start. Now, imagine yourself in an immersive, innovative educational space, with all the tools and training and a virtual world that allows you to redesign stores, parks, and spaces in a way that enriches and beautifies your neighborhood. Imagine that you have access to experts who can train you in design principles and digital fabrication, provide you feedback, aid in funding and the permit process, and support you as your virtual designs become real construction efforts in your community. You are in the realm of CyberONE; as you add paint, fix streets, demolish buildings, add landscapes, etc., the software is calculating a list of materials, local resources, human potential, training opportunities, and costs to do the work. For example, lets say you have $100,000 to spend, 30 volunteers from a local high school student club, two business experts, and 10 donated recyclable materials 10 miles away. You can run multiple scenarios and schematic models and simulate which one allows you to do the most with the budget available, utilizes a smaller carbon footprint, uses the best natural resources, allocates the most efficient time, follows the contextual guidelines, affects the greatest number of stakeholders, and provides a real-time calculator for the cost of urban improvement. The outcome of your creation, invention, and production will become your digital portfolio and part of the hyper resume. The learning outcome populates a hyper resume and gets updated in real time. This proposal will be part science fair, part community service, and part mentoring, as it adds units to your certificate. In CyberONE, students can dream, choose, design, and create real changes in their neighborhoods. Creating and connecting social networking activities with virtual environments through an interactive booth demonstrates the knowledge of science, art, design, nature, and practical applications for sustainable cities, buildings, products, and living. As the users become engaged, they can continue experiencing the fair or join a college course. This nurturing environment of learning, creating, and interacting will trigger community empowerment as the industry partners participate in student-driven innovation. The reach of the program will be national, in partnership with JPL/NASA programs. Through an interactive map, the student will be able to see what his/her social network is doing in the fair; he or she might want to join a conversation about a leaf bench that a friend just created or chat with an industry partner who might want to mass produce the bench. The project staff will use their social networks and capabilities to build a new social network that is shared among the community for easing access to industry, academic, government, and local experts who can make these dreams reality. The reach of the program will be national in scope as students advance through the curriculum in collaboration with JPLs programs at NASA. These advanced courses and projects will reach into NASAs Knowledge Management and Synergetic Environments activities to provide a broad reach and impact of advanced design concepts.

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CYBERCOLLEGE CyberONE aligns accreditation standards with STAR guidelines. CyberONE facilitates an easy understanding of multiple variables and taxonomies, the educational environment, economic forces, available human resources, and curriculum. Once all the variables are visualized and related, the stakeholders can make better decisions and allocate efforts and budgets to the following questions: Who lives in this community? What are the need in this community? What does the market profile model on a map look like? What are the skills required for the new jobs? What and where are the local, state, and national initiatives? Which teacher has been recently trained or is interested in x training? Where is our labor force? What is the chief assets of our local community? How many jobs will become available in the next two years near each college? What institutions have courses and programs that comply with certification? What jobs are in demand and what do they pay? How many workers are unemployed? Where is the funding? What natural resources are available? Where is there space? Where are there more qualified, suitable, and available teachers? Where the students and what are their backgrounds? What industries are expanding? What are the tasks necessary to achieve 100 percent success? What is the current energy use? How can we make energy use more efficient and sustainable? What courses do we have? What programs do we offer that are related to the training? Who is interested in participating? What industries should be called upon? What higher education institutions would like to partner with the community colleges? Where are students with specific skills being placed and for how long?

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Epilogue Mariana Aguilar, Magalie Chambert and Ryan Conover Mariana Aguilar USC Sciology Mayor and Minor in Business and Multimedia Literacy Candidate June 2012 The exposure and model making explorations I used from the CyberONE, later on supported my cognitive science exploration titled: The Sound and Space of Choice. My installation integrates diverse fields from cognitive science, to architecture, to digital media, mathematics, and philosophy.

All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible for errors to enter into geometrical reasoning, because it is well arranged and orderly. Thus, the mind that constantly applies itself to geometry is not likely to fall into error. In this convenient way, the person who knows geometry acquires intelligence -|Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406)

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Magalie Chambert, Graduated School of Architecture, Politenique Mexico City LATTC AA Architecture Technology candidate June 2012 I have dual citizenship and family issues moved me back to the United the States 5 years ago. I graduated with honors from a school of architecture and engineering and I worked with prestigious architecture firms in Mexico City. I wanted to expand my global participation and moved back to the United States. This new challenge appeared to be an impossible one. I had to overcome the language barriers and augment my CAD skills to the new geospatial tools. I enjoy quality and high standards. My award winning competitions support the type of outcomes I expect of myself. For the first few months I found myself very lost until I found the Community Colleges. LACCD/ELAC/LATTC facilitated my understanding to the American framework and accelerated my adaptation to a new window for Sustainability and High end tools. I believe personal experiences and the Built Environment have cycles and I realized that my appreciation to art, craft and detail modeling that I saw at a very young age influences my design today. Creating every image for the CyberONE was a very intuitive process; it was like opening a universal knowledge I had already inside of me.

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USC Architecture Degree Candidate June 2012


I am a product of CyberOnes prototypical manifestation. Before CyberOne was synthesized into an explicable typology, there still existed the essence of this novel transformation and facility. I was, and still am, directly affected by its power, and can say confidently that it can successfully identify the full potential that every individual has to offer..As a high school student, I studied in an environment that is common amongst most educational facilities. I was lucky in that the school I attended was considered one of the top high schools in the area. I was required to study math, science, English, and had the opportunity, limited as it was, to take some extracurricular classes. Each course was completely separate and disconnected from the others, and the commonalities that they so obviously shared were ignored by the faculty and administration. At the time, I did not realize why I had a difficult time with calculus or biology, but after meeting Prof. Oliva, my eyes were opened. She demonstrated with different computer programs how a conic section is not some arbitrary mathematical equation but part of a greater whole that can be visualized and understood in a much easier way. We discussed how math was informed by nature and how each subject related with each other. She provided examples in art, architecture, science and others to aid in my understanding. Most importantly, however, she taught me about space and how it can be formed and manipulated. All of these lessons that aided me tremendously in understanding the afore mentioned concepts were completely left out of my high schools curriculum. So many issues seemed to lie in the fact that there is no attempt to teach in a connective and comprehensive fashion. Rather than establishing an educational network, where seemingly unrelated courses feed off of each others teachings, there exists only disassociated dead ends that leave students wondering why they are even learning the content that has been forced upon them. I am an extremely right-brained individual, so naturally I struggled with math and science at times. Because of this, my GPA and SAT scores limited me when applying to colleges. However, after Prof. Oliva convinced me to compile and submit a portfolio of some artwork I had done over the years, I was accepted into USCs architecture program, and have since flourished, acquiring internships at major firms like Gensler and Arquitectonica. I believe that one of the main reasons for my acceptance was the work I did in Prof. Olivas class, which dealt with architectural technologies, sacred geometry, platonic solids, and the Power of One, which is the idea that our collective consciousness, the whole, is more powerful than its parts, our minds. I can honestly say that about 70% of my portfolio was compiled using work from LATTC. The point here is that I ran the risk of allowing false filters like the SAT and GPA to stifle my true potential. I was lucky to have succeeded, but so, so many do not, to no fault of their own. I believe, and am proof that, everyone has latent potential, but that does not necessarily mean they are meant to be a mathematician or biologist. If they are given a chance to succeed where they are most talented, they can accomplish amazing outcomes. We had the opportunity in Atlanta, Georgia to design sustainable container housing with students from MIT and Duke University for low income residents. Based on the student work they saw at the LATTC architecture studio, Georgia Tech provided full scholarships to 10 students that Prof. Oliva selected. In order to demonstrate the potential of our Los Angeles Community Colleges, Prof. Oliva sent students from ELAC, City, Harbor and Pierce. The LACCD students that I worked with were not from a university or top-tier college, but each individual, when presented this opportunity, contributed crucial knowledge which aided in the production of these highly synergetic buildings. I cannot stress enough how my colleagues flourished when given the chance to succeed with students from highly respectable educational establishments. The collective consciousness that was generated from this group, who deal with adversity and oppression every single day, was something I can honestly say amazed me. I wondered what would happen if, rather than living in a society that suppresses latent talent, we were able to tap everyones full potential. When we focus on what we can accomplish as a whole, and if we put just a small amount of faith into those who historically have been oppressed and ignored, we can accomplish amazing things. Also, keep in mind that my experiences with CyberOnes

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objectives were derived from a primitive version of this typology. I can only imagine the infinite potential that will manifest when we are able to synthesize and digitize information that is available to the entire community.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Professor Oliva is the Architecture and Environmental Design Leader for the LATTC Green Workforce Division, member of the Federal Knowledge Management Team and an active member for the LACCD Sustainable Building Program. She partners with NASA Knowledge Management, as a principal investigator for the Cyber-Physical Systems NSF Grant, and she is a recipient of the California Governors Award in Geospatial Technologies. Running a high tech studio, as an atelier the students learning outcomes and e-portfolio show 100% transfer and 100% job placements. With local students talent and as part of a high-tech team, she facilitated the LACCD e7 Architecture Studio to produce geospatial repository and scientific visualization tools that support decision making. She integrates social, natural, and built environments in creative and participatory learning laboratories, and she has partnered with the Los Angeles Unified School Districts high school iSEE (Im a Student Exploring Excellence) program to create the first and largest initiative program for students interested in architecture and engineering. Professor Oliva was a third time competitive presenter for the California Higher Education Sustainable Symposium. She has presented at various forums that encompass education, technology innovation, and global crises, and her audiences have included USC BIM executives, USC International AIA Technology Forum; Caixa Forum Barcelona; USC Focus the Nation; the Great Thinker Forum; Enterprise Architecture in Washington, D.C.; Innovative Education at Eureka International Mexico City and others. Professor Oliva advocates for a self-organizing system that unites the mind, the built environment, and the natural environment a method towards a CyberONE existence. Through this interdependence, Professor Oliva believes, we can find the right relationship and patterns to bring order, balance, and harmony to our planet earth. Professor Oliva holds a Bachelors Degree in Architecture from USC and a Masters Degree in Architecture and Building Science from Columbia University in the City of New York. She is the USC recipient Alpha Rho Chi Medal for promising leadership in the profession.

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