Some things are hard to learn from a page. How hard you swing to pack a tire with earth. Where the low winter sun lands on a floor, and where it doesn't in June. How rain moves from a roof to a cistern to a tap and on into a planter. So the Pangea Academy curriculum now has videos inside the lessons, placed at the point where each one teaches.
As of this week there are 21 videos across 20 lessons in 10 of our 15 courses, and the goal is a video in every lesson. Each course page now shows how many it has, and which lessons, before you sign up.
Three kinds of video
Real builds, from our own film archive. Tires being pounded on site, a whole tire-wall build in time-lapse, Trombe walls and thermosiphons explained, a home near Taos walked through in the middle of winter, and builds in very different climates, from New York and British Columbia to Florida, Scotland and Australia. Watching the same idea adapt to a different climate is one of the fastest ways to understand it.
Pencil animations, drawn for the curriculum. Some ideas are clearer as a drawing than as footage. Our animations show the noon sun moving through a year at Taos, 36.4° N, so you can watch an overhang do its job, and follow one building through the seasons as its six systems work together.
A short animated series, "A day in Pangea". Each episode follows one living system through a day: the indoor garden that the same south glass warms, or rain on its way from the roof to the tap. These are AI-generated animations, and every one is labelled that way in the lesson. They set the scene; the lesson text is where the technical detail lives.
Where to find them
Every video sits inside the lesson it explains, so you meet it at the right moment rather than in a separate pile. If you would rather browse, the Videos page lists them all by course, with links to the lessons they belong to.
The place to start is the foundation course, Regenerative Design Philosophy. It is free, its first four lessons read with no account at all, and it already carries 13 of the videos, including the climate set and both animations.
More on the way
New videos are being cut from our archive and added lesson by lesson: setting out the first course of a wall, roof catchment and silt catches, the cooling tube at work, earthen plaster by hand. Each course page keeps its own count, so you can see the curriculum grow.
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