Concept · generalized principle · cards 1T1 to 1T3
AT6012 Living Commons
The record of student work from AT6012 Design Research: Technology Transformations. Eight groups worked across the 2025 to 2026 cohort.
412 files. The repository stays private. The work is shared with the next cohort, and the cohort decides the rest.
CCAE : UCC / MTU. Source kept private.
From a graded PDF
For years the work ended at a grade. A student handed in a PDF, it was marked, and it stopped there. The next cohort opened an empty folder and started from nothing.
This module moves the work somewhere else.
The problem this is built to solve.
How knowledge moves
- Create. The group produces research, data, and design work.
- Capture. It is committed to the repository with its history.
- Integrate. It links to the concepts already there.
- Apply. The next cohort builds the next question on it.
One continuous loop across cohorts.
Read the page as pairs. A card in the concept row sits on a spectrum with the card below it in the example row, the way the Citation TWiN holds a seminal source beside a current one. Every card has a code and a version stamp, so it can be cited like a glossary entry. Through the editor embedded in the page a comment becomes a contribution, then collaboration, then stewardship. That is the peer-learning continuum.
Example · special-case scenario · cards 1B1 to 1B3
Data to application
- Data. What the group gathered.
- Ontology. The concepts and relations it declared.
- Knowledge graph. Those concepts linked across the corpus.
- RAG. Retrieval over the graph answers a new question.
- Application. Design decisions, and the next inquiry.
The platform runs one spine end to end.
The ambition
Student research becomes cumulative. Work stays navigable across cohorts. Every group leaves a charter so the next person can find the edge of the work and move from there.
Why the commons exists.
The challenges
The work is identifiable student work, so sharing it needs consent. Roughly a gigabyte of media does not belong in a teaching repository. A grade still rewards a final artifact, and does not yet reward a contribution the next cohort can build on. Curation takes staff time.
Stated plainly, for the discussion.