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Nice scenarios to follow NICE decade

April 27, 2009

Forum for the Future has done it again with an extremely interesting Acting now for a positive 2018, preparing for radical change (report pdf). They present four scenarios of what the world might look like in ten years’ time. ICT gets a special consideration in each scenario. First though, they recap the last ten […]

Occupational theme and sustainability worldview?

April 24, 2009

I’m wondering today if there is a link between occupational preferences and sustainability? I was prompted there by an interesting report in the latest Communications of the ACM. LeeAnne Coder and her colleagues report on a study of 500 graduates in Kansas. They were interested in exploring the extent to which “the dearth of […]

Over the fence: sustainable practitioners in planning?

April 23, 2009

The Egan Review was commissioned by the UK government in 2004. It aimed to undertake a skills review of the skills required to deliver sustainable communities. Despite a wide ranging definition: Sustainable communities meet the diverse needs of existing and future residents, their children and other users, contribute to a high quality of life and provide opportunity and choice. […]

Art of Computers:Computers of Art

April 21, 2009

I’m presenting the Art of Computers timeline at the Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Art Educators Conference. Here’s the artefact (pdf 14MB). Any suggestions greatly appreciated. The time-line is in two sections – a history of computers from Sumerian tablets and Stonehenge, and concurrent artistic representations. The time-line considers fusions and fault lines between these two […]

NZCS certification submission

April 19, 2009

In the interests of transparency, here’s my submission to the New Zealand Computer Society professionalisation initiative: Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the draft Professional Certification Framework. I believe this is the most important action the Society has ever taken, it is well overdue. This belatedness, however, is not a cause for undue haste, […]