ABSTRACT
"Each one teach one" is a requisite component of the social capital developed and deployed in the contemporary university. In its egalitarian acknowledgement that we all give to and gain from each other, the aphorism embodies empathy, tolerance, and striving for self-improvement. In exploring how to assemble the expertise and experience required in order to prevail in designbuild education, this chapter relies on a trio of authors who examine the role of team building, community, and social capital in the United States; further, it argues that designbuild is a unique instance of associationalism (the tendency to construct community around shared, even urgent, need). The chapter looks at the ways housing smaller communities within larger ones, rather like nested Russian matryoshka dolls of confederacy and alliance. Moreover, these nested associations help guide the tectonic direction and development of a project.
