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Three days of digital culture and heritage

October 25, 2007

We’re at ICHIM07 the international cultural heritage informatics meeting. The theme is Digital Culture and Heritage – Khlya and I are presenting our Simpa work this afternoon: Worlds colliding: Participatory storytelling and indigenous culture in building interactive games.The opening session is a tribute to someone I didn’t know, but has obviously had a big impact […]

Computerised critters tell their story

October 24, 2007

At the National Geographic museum in Washington DC a Crittercam exhibition is showing how computing technology is helping to give greater insight into the world as seen by animals. In this field (actually mostly sea) the link between computing and sustainability is most appealing . I always try to be careful not to get carried […]

Interactive sustainability at National Maritime

October 24, 2007

Down the hill from the clocks at Greenwich is the National Maritime Museum. Underneath the ship driving simulator (you must try it) and the “all hands” interactive gallery is a small but effective gallery devoted to sustainability – primarily of the sea. Amongst the usual messages (pollution, energy, fish stocks) a few things worth noting: […]

Seeding ideas in the power bill?

October 22, 2007

One of the goals of the DoTT07 Festival is to: re-frame food systems as design opportunities, and to consider what design steps we might take to make it easier for city-dwellers to grow their own fruit and vegetables. I’ve written before about the Rethinking School Lunch initiative. This American project aims to make food production an […]

Wouldn’t it be great if…

October 22, 2007

I think that the two biggest dangers of the sustainability message (worse perhaps than it being ignored entirely) is that it be boring and and it be preachy. Both of these are guaranteed to defeat the message. The organisers of the DoTT07 Festivalwere able to showcase several initiatives that were the very opposite of boring […]