About this community
Hampshire is closing at the end of 2026. The college is — and the people who made it Hampshire are not. We are still here, still in conversation, still asking the questions Hampshire trained us to ask.
This site is where that conversation lives in long form. It’s a workshop, not a chat room. We use it to think through the successor — what kind of pedagogy, what kind of land relationship, what kind of legal vehicle, what kind of culture. We use it to keep faculty methods alive, to publish the Div III archive, to find each other across the regions, to share jobs and housing and care.
The fast, social, real-time conversation lives on Discord. The persistent, citable, decision-grade conversation lives here.
What this site is
- A place to draft, debate, and decide — and have those drafts and debates findable months later
- A working memory for the working groups
- A library of what we built and what we’re building
- A bulletin board for the practical work of taking care of each other
What this site isn’t
- A replacement for the college’s own communications channels
- A place for breaking news (use Discord)
- A place to relitigate the closure (we’re past that — we’re building forward)
Who runs it
The site is community-stewarded. Moderation is a working group, not a single voice.
To engage
Introduce yourself in Welcome, then go where the work is. Working groups are open by default.
No margin, no mission
Whatever shape the successor takes, it has to pay for itself. Sustainability is a foundational design question, not an afterthought — there’s a dedicated Business Model category and working group for that work. If you have business / pricing / earned-revenue / cost-structure thinking to contribute, that’s where it goes.