Month / May 2016

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  • Embodied?

    Trying out a thing. I am (and have been in a large part of this MA) led by ideas surrounding embodied learning, and learning through the senses. Donna Harraway argues that science and technology should have an “embodied nature of all vision, and so reclaim the sensory system that has been used to signify a…

  • Machine Wilderness

    Machine Wilderness project by FO.AM is a series of workshops and research that question the relationship between new technologies and ecological systems -studying how technology can relate to biological systems. “This program starts from the viewpoint of an organism as an expression of it’s habitat and works within a longterm view of interacting populations surfing…

  • Human Breadboards

    Last year I participated in an etextiles symposium. I collaborated with a group of educators to explore learning + etextiles and wrote about what we made. I’ve just been re-visiting this in the process of making steps towards defining “squishyness”. I (think) I may be converging on some kind of meaning, and I think that…

  • A squish by any other name

    What is it to be squishy? The first part of my research project is to make steps towards answering this question in the context of learning computing. I’d like to start with exploring some very squishy things. Have you ever delicately plonked your hand in a puddle of frog eggs? This spring (i.e. a few…

  • Manifesto making

    Today we participated in a manifesto making workshop. The process was: 1. Split into groups of 5 with people from other programs (i.e. not from Design Education) 2. come up with a “design” manifesto 3. present this to the rest of the group 4. go back to the manifesto, make it less general, and make slogans…