Many farms and their cybernetically-enhanced owners now float freely in geodesic spheres and self-replicating robots, some dangerous to humans, roam the countryside.
Living quarters are geodesic domes, super-insulated with straw-bale and covered in earth-plaster, that were built on-site by previous course participants.
The canonical one-form restricted to this sphere forms a contact structure; the contact structure may be used to generate the geodesic flow for this metric.