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Systems thinking in museums

August 10, 2008

A couple of weeks ago I criticised the Exploratorium for a lack of interactive exhibits addressing systems thinking. Since then I’ve been dredging the memory (biological and digital) for some examples. Being able to comprehend complexity, think across scales, and understand complex relationships is a vital part of sustainability education. Here’s some examples: Plant system […]

Software Engineering meets Living Campus

August 10, 2008

We’ve got two full streams of Software Engineering this year. We teach a brand of software engineering that attempts to integrate agile with structure: Agile development framework (link to emerging wikibook). As part of our drive to find opportunities to integrate sustainability into teaching, we’re giving the groups the challenge of developing an information infrastructure […]

Working for the earth 5 til 9

July 29, 2008

I swim regularly with a triathlete who is also a policeman. He works strange hours, some weeks he’s on days, others he calls in for swim on the way home in the early morning. These strange hours are because “crime never sleeps”. Something else that never sleeps is environmental and social degradation. The fight for […]

Slowly getting beyond green IT as new sex

July 23, 2008

It is with mixed emotion that I read Stephen Bell’s (Computerworld) report of a panel at Radar08 last week. Followers of this blog will recognise my theme: Computing and IT underpins every sector of society as a pervasive and influential discipline with global impact. As a result, computing influences the environment and society either positively […]

Beyond the lean to the heart of computing

May 2, 2008

I’m on the committee for an exciting new conference that takes computing “beyond sustainability” . Hearttech08 aims to go deeper than our current attempts at green IT which as Raskino points out usually are code for “lean IT”. Instead we hope to explore the heart of technology and technology education. Logan Muller is chair (remember […]