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Computing is ubiquitous, but experiences are design-led

July 1, 2010

Knuth described the “art of programming”, but the relationship between art and code is somewhat uneasy. For many years we have seen papers at conferences making excuses for computing students’ inabilities when it comes to design. Those of us who teach computing have all sat through assessments where students show us something functional but truly […]

Green IT: Challenge for designers

June 20, 2010

A few years back I wrote a paper about marketing computing programmes – promoting courses of study that is (rather than either selling programs or programs that sell things). In that paper I talked about how badly our prospectuses do at promoting the career of computing to potential students. Instead of careers with a focus […]

A world without sustainability?

May 31, 2010

“It’s pretty, but is it art?” asks the Devil in Rudyard Kipling’s The Conundrum of the Workshops. The Dunedin foreshore has recently had the addition of a set of giant carved molar teeth, funded by a public art grant from the Council. Much of the Dunedin public is up in arms – “they’re hideous” claim […]

Need your help looking for sustainability diagrams

May 17, 2010

Some more (for the full collection), and a request for help. I’m looking for diagrams for these sustainability related concepts: risk management applied to sustainability (eg bowtie diagrams) family ties and sustainability systems thinking (not examples or evidence of systems thinking, rather systems thinking itself) complexity scale risk and uncertainty threshold concepts biomimicry (not just […]

Some puzzles, triangles and circles, a golden snitch and a pocket knife

May 13, 2010

I’m filling holes on the framework so a slightly strange collection for the corpus. 219 Ecology, Equity, and Economy Triangle by McDonough and Michael Baungart From the book, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Baungart 220 Alden Dow’s A way of life cycle (“Alden B. Dow Midwestern […]