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Dealing with the devil? Sponsorship ethics for LivingCampus

September 16, 2008

Our colleague Brian has a jacket for a favourite race-car team. It has fascinated me since he got it. What sort of negotiation went on that sees a smoking company and a quit-smoking company jostling for position on the same arm? Brian’s jacket has been on my mind the last couple of days following […]

Seeing the slightly dulled light in Opoho

September 2, 2008

When I was at school those who didn’t feel inclined to be at school could sneak off through the bush, slog up the hill and half an hour later turn up in Opoho. Logan Park is in a hollow and Opoho is renowned in Dunedin for its sunshine. Stuck in the gloom of Mr Tobin’s […]

Streaming Kaikorai plans

November 19, 2007

Dr Simon McMillian is a science teacher at Kaikorai College in Dunedin. We have worked with him previously when he had a Royal Society Fellowship to work on community-based environmental management around the Kaikorai Stream. One of my project groups helped him establish teaching resources based around the installation of a real-time monitoring station in […]

Understanding past to plan for future – update

September 3, 2007

Update on the Romantic City. I’m just back from presenting the project to the Dunedin City Council Planning and Environment committee. Their response: wow (mine? …phew). Flis Butcher introduced us to the committee, along with perhaps 20 Council officials and members of the public. We talked about the importance of having an understanding of where […]

Romantic City project moving fast

August 16, 2007

Yesterday I wrote of plans to develop a 3D interactive timeline/map of our city. It’s moving fast and there’s nothing like a good idea to get people excited and engaged. Interest in your surroundings is perhaps the first and most important step in sustainability so it is great to find a computing based project that […]