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  • Playable City Tokyo

    About a month ago I received an email from one of my favorite organizations (the Pervasive Media Studio), who were inviting me to apply to be part of a Playable City creative lab in Tokyo. I applied, thinking that they probably would not select me, and eagerly waited for a response. I contemplated wearing a…

  • Tentacumas

    This year’s Christmas card design was in celebration of reading a whole book by Donna Harraway. Watch a video version of the book >>> https://vimeo.com/97663518. I screen printed, enveloped, and sent these to folk I don’t get to see that much. Sending out tentacular love to people of the world x

  • Next steps

    It is hard to go into too much detail here how the learning process I went through on this programme has impacted the way I understand things around my, mainly because it has been so huge. But, now that the MA has finished (sob), I am starting to see how massively my way of approaching…

  • Mapping, methods and methodologies

    Cor blimey it’s all got quite map-py recently. We had a “Mapping our IRP” workshop with Lili. And we learned something of methods and methodologies, which I am making steps towards understanding. They go a little something like: Methodology Methodology is the study of how research is done, how we find out about things, and…

  • Affordancing

    I learned a new word this week: affordances. It is one of the favorite words used by Duncan on the Materialties program. “An affordance is a relationship between the properties of an object and the capabilities of the agent that determine just how the object could possibly be used.” Don Norman (2013). The Design of…

  • Hirschhorn Mapping

    Thomas Hirshorn mapping philosophers. I love these. They feel both like they are in motion and situated. They seem like they are still in progress. “There is a certain parallel to be drawn between the process of knowing and mapping. Both are environmentally situated activities, both are carried out along paths of travel, and both…

  • The reincarnation of wonder

    When I studied literary theory for my undergrad degree we started the course reading Barthes seminal essay. You know the one. The one about texts gaining meaning through the culture in which they exist, and more specifically through the reader that lives in that culture in which the text exists. That one that when I…

  • Tour Testing

    I made a guide book that takes you on a bit of an anstract tour of the library through the book. It was a bit of an experiment, and I don’t think my class mates loved it. But fun to make. It is part inspired by this rather wonderful snippet from Words by Jean-Paul Sartre:…

  • Seeing form somewhere

    I’ve been on a couple of visits to the British Library to research a tour guide. It may sound like an obvious thing -that you might see things from somewhere. But in some texts (i.e. maps and science papers) the idea that there is a perspective is not so obvious, and it seems like they…

  • Walking Tour

    For the first Spaces and Practices session we were asked to make an alternative walking tour of Goldsmiths, a tour that would encourage visors to look at the space from a different perspective. I’ve included this in the Kit of Processes.  I found the process of walking with intention (in this case making an alternative…

  • Movable Matter eBook

    eBook version of the Studio Technologies assignment –Movable Matter. Download the PDF here.

  • Movable Matter paperbook

    This book documents my reflections on Material Manipulation. It is bound using a Coptic stitch. The advantage of Coptic binding is that the pages of the book lay flat when open; it is also secure and the exposed stitches look lovely. The squashed blue milk bottle top cladding was formed by re-heating blue milk bottle…

  • Hacking for girls!

    I got home the other day and found this *wonderful* book on my doorstep. It is a Digital DIY book for girls, called Hack’s Selbst!, edited by Chris Köver It is full of projects that could inspire girls, most of the authors are women working in tech, and there is almost no pink (even though…

  • MA Design

    Hey peeps. It’s been quiet on the blog.beccarose.co.uk front for the past few months due to a wonderful journey I started this September. I got back to England and moved my things to London to start an MA in Design at Goldsmiths. I am in the Education group and we are studying modules like “Radical…

  • Solid – liquid – gas

    For the 4th Technical Studies class we formed thermoplastics using heat and pressure. Thermoplastics are a class of polymers that can be heated and re-formed. The ovens (heat ~200˚c) Heated to ~200˚C and the plastic (or part of the plastic) turns into liquid and can be formed using the pressure from hand, or an object.…

  • More behaviorism things

    We made a comic! It has some animals (and people) and quotes. You can download it here. And we also quizzed the class on behaviorism (in a kind of behaviorist style). Not sure how qualified we were to quiz people of the very basic understanding we had. But in true behaviorist fashion gold stars and…

  • Oh Behave!

    My tiny (or otherwise occupied with other things) brain had not pulled aside the “behave” part of the word in Behaviorism until now. We spent a day researching last week, and I started to understand the very basic principles of Behaviorist theory (i.e. using conditioning techniques on humans), but I wish it had occurred to…

  • Hertzian Something

    Last week I joined the MA Design program at Goldsmiths and this is a journal of the things that we* think over the next year whilst participating in the course. I hope we do good things. *we = (the writers + the tutors + the other students + the process of making) + me Design…

  • Moving to the UK

    The summer is nearly over, and I have finally planted my little feet back in Bristol. Dave and I moved ourselves via various European destinations back to sometimes sunny sometimes rainy England. I am sad to leave SF, but my summer has been so busy that I have been distracted* by what that actually feels…

  • Creative Coding MOOC

    This week I started the Future Learn Creative Coding MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). I had attempted to do the course last year, but gave up after the first week as it assumed a lot of knowledge, and I found it frustrating to learn on my own. This time I am participating with the support…