Resilience often disguises retreat. In places where climate and inequality converge, educational design learns to yield. Buildings rise on stilts, materials seal against water, classrooms adapt. But these shifts are not born from care, they are born from absence. Infrastructure is not expanded, only adjusted. Students are taught within systems built to endure, not to grow. This world examines how adaptation becomes institutional strategy. Flexibility replaces commitment. Rubber floors suggest foresight, but conceal neglect. The pencil is waterproof, the boots protective, the raft ready. Nothing breaks, but nothing builds. Every design choice is a symptom of the conditions it cannot correct. The space functions, but without promise. Its success lies in survival. The architecture makes emergency permanent. It flattens crisis into routine. The system trains students to expect change, but not to question it. Learning becomes movement, adjustment, tolerance. Design becomes language, but one that avoids investment. Its vocabulary is soft, stretchable, resistant. Not by luxury, but necessity. The institution is praised for enduring, even as it absorbs the cost of systemic failure. This is a world where education is shaped by the expectation of collapse. Its resilience is the result of being left alone. Support is mistaken for self-sufficiency. Vulnerability is aestheticized as innovation. To persist is not to be protected. - Based on Arundhati Roy Capitalism A Ghost Story