It’s time for Hyperlink’s monthly launch — or knowledge drop — with some great cohorts and events now open for enrollment!
creative websites ✨ at-home ecology ✨ restorative art ✨ digital alchemy ✨ conservation ✨ motion design ✨ art of memory ✨ comics making ✨ cryptoeconomics ✨ applied rationality
View all here: Courses | Clubs | Events
Click each to learn more and enroll. (“NEW” = starting their very first cohort!)
And a special series next week: Hyper Meta — a week of Hyperlink-hosted events, exploring courses, learning clubs & other experiments. Details below!
Courses
Websites for Creatives - NEW 🌱✨
Giving creatives/artists the tools and understanding to design and code their own site that’s centered around a creative endeavor. Handling website craft as an art, and a form of gardening.
Starts June 3, $360, 9 weeks
Fantastic Beasts for the Home and Garden - NEW 🌱✨
Cultivate animal familiars, plant companions, and fungal allies in this project-based course on intimacy, ecology, and what it means to be human in the post-anthropocene.
Starts June 13, $200, 4 weeks
Anti-Burnout Artists Spa
Restorative Drawing for Artists. Are you a visual artist who’s been feeling blah about it lately? We’ll rediscover the joy of it via playful drawing exercises and low-stakes sharing.
Starts June 13, $200, 5 weeks
Digital Alchemy
An experimental course on understanding low level representation of information. By exploring how to transmute data; and by playing around with boundaries of creation & representation.
Starts June 26, $150, 5 weeks
The Home Collection Game
Roleplay as secret agents and supervillains as you learn to apply museum knowledge on preventive conservation and create tailored preservation measures for your own home collections.
Starts June 26, $200, 5 weeks
Steal Like an Animator - NEW 🌱✨
This course is an introduction to animation using After Effects by emulating our favourite motion design artists. We’ll cover how to break down existing animations and create our own using AE.
Starts July 3, $150, 5 weeks
Art of Memory - NEW 🌱✨
We’ll rediscover, explore, and practice several ancient memory techniques to dramatically improve and expand our ability to memorize a vast array of knowledge.
Starts July 10, $225, 5 weeks
Clubs
Comics Making for the Rest of Us
A club for comics making aimed at building creative solidarity and exploring the medium. Weekly drawing + writing activities, discussion opportunities and a set of ongoing group projects <3
Starts June 15, $30, 6 weeks
Cryptoeconomics - NEW 🌱✨
Come learn about crypto and cryptoeconomics, and maybe develop a fun dapp along the way. More study group than hype. Although 🦄, 🚀 and 🏎 are nice 💎🙌!
Starts July 1, $60, 6 weeks
Introduction to Applied Rationality - NEW 🌱✨
Join fellow autodidacts to explore intriguing interdisciplinary questions together and to learn the secrets of leveraging the web for more professional autonomy and free-agency.
Starts July 17, $50, 6 weeks
Events
Chess Club Meet and Greet
Players of all skill levels — join for an online chess club experience. Play games and tournaments, explore strategies, maybe even try a simultaneous exhibition. Learn more about learning chess!
Thursday, June 3, FREE
Hyper Meta: a week of Hyperlink events
Hyper Meta is a series of Hyperlink-hosted events, exploring courses, learning clubs & other experiments.
We’re starting with a week of free events, from June 7–11.
Get to know the Hyperlink founding team, meet other creators, and workshop your ideas for courses and clubs.
Oh, and be among the first to test out Hyperspace, our new collaborative learning environment. A space for shared learning, digital gardening, and doing things together.
Please join any or all of the events; they’re free and open to the public. However, to help us prepare, please only RSVP if you’re sure you can make it!
Hyper Meta: Future of Peer Learning Clubs
Explore how you can start a learning club — emergent and collaborative p2p cohorts — and how we might experiment together with new forms for peer-driven learning.
Brendan and Adam will host, joined by several others who have hosted awesome clubs ranging from writing to language learning to comics creation.
Monday, June 7, FREE
Hyper Meta: Course Creator Canvas
Workshop your course idea together, in a condensed version of the first week of our Meta Course. We’ll start with a rough idea, plot goals and construct a concept map, and start to plan a potential course structure.
Hosted by Brendan and Celine. After, we can set you up with a draft course and talk further about launching a course on Hyperlink!
Tuesday, June 8, FREE
Hyper Meta: How To Book Club
Let’s talk about book clubs — how to start them, how to run them, and how we can experiment with future book club possibilities.
Brendan will be co-hosting along with Emily of Italic Type, to talk about the benefits of book clubs for learning, how to run an impactful group, and how we can experiment with new ways of engaging with books and each other.
Wednesday, June 9, FREE
Hyper Meta: Pedagogical Pattern Playground
Join Brendan and Jared of Hyperlink to experiment with building a “pattern language” for teaching and learning.
We’ll extend existing pedagogical patterns, play with new possibilities for shaping learning experiences — for facilitation, activities, discussion and more — particularly in collaborative contexts and emergent internet modes.
Thursday, June 10, FREE
Hyperlink NYC Meetup
A celebration of Hyperlink’s first year, and the soft/beta launch of Hyperspace — we’ll meet up in person, talk learning, and hang on Brendan’s roof deck :)
This is an offline event with limited capacity, not listed on the Hyperlink site. If you’re a friend of Hyperlink and interested in dropping by Friday afternoon in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, let us know and we’ll send details!
Friday, June 11, FREE
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—The Hyperlink Team