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901…1000 Sustainable Images from Summer Reading

January 27, 2024

I’ve reached the end of my summer reading pile (yes, still got a PhD to assess, and reviewing and …). As I read, I tag papers and sources that have candidate diagrams for this collection. On revisiting, only about half of those get included. I have changed the criteria a bit, I used to be strict – diagrams […]

900…791 Diagrams of Sustainability Sat on the Wall

October 27, 2023

I hereby declare that it is impossible to read the volume of sustainability-related literature being published. At least I can’t do it. So I choose to read papers only that contain a diagram. I think they convey the essence – and often the detail – in a way that I find way more engaging than […]

A woodpecker, a genie and a snake

September 1, 2023

I’m giving a keynote at CompEd in India in December. My working title is “searching for computing’s soul”. I’m using the examples of ethics, sustainability and decolonising in the context of computing education. Very aware of being the white “expert” talking about these things in a colonised country with rich and varied understandings, I went […]

A virus, a pyramid, and a butterfly walked into a sustainable bar…

July 19, 2023

Adding to the collection of diagrams of sustainability. This time we add dimensions – so a triangle becomes a wedge and a pyramid And spirals and links become a pandemic. We finish with an ontological butterfly. 655. PlanetEarth Concept (if the planet is conceived as triangles) (Al-Thour 2016) 656. Washing machine (Mansell 2019) 657. SDGs […]

Six months in a freaky boat

June 13, 2023

Six months of Blowing Bubbles – summer, storms, travel and artificial intelligence. Featuring three conversations with Lucky Hawkins in the aftermath of the cyclone, recovery and renewed leadership. Adding to the archive here: 452. Undividing Digital Bubbles – Keld Hunia in Wainui 453. Possibilities of Bubbles – Greg Hughson in Caversham 454. Wild Whenua Bubbles […]