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Wouldn’t it be great if…

October 22, 2007

I think that the two biggest dangers of the sustainability message (worse perhaps than it being ignored entirely) is that it be boring and and it be preachy. Both of these are guaranteed to defeat the message. The organisers of the DoTT07 Festivalwere able to showcase several initiatives that were the very opposite of boring […]

Mixing data with community knowledge

October 21, 2007

Much of computing is structured around the hierarchy of data:information:knowledge. Adding structure to data makes it information, using this information in context makes it knowledge. Atthe DoTT07 Festival , the Landscape/Portrait project adds further layers to this – experience, and the combined expression of this. Visitors to the Vital Signs area are asked to leave a […]

Sustainability Movement at DoTT07

October 20, 2007

A great computer-based interactive at the DoTT07 Festival is in the Movement area. A digital map of the roads of the North East shows little dots moving around the area. Colour coded for the type of vehicle and number of passengers, the map clearly shows areas of considerable congestion. A “road” protrudes from the front […]

Clever twist on “less stuff”

October 20, 2007

The strapline for the DoTT07 Festival is “Better lives with less stuff”. At a display focussing on improved energy management as a means to urban renewal there is an interesting twist on “less stuff”. As part of the process energy consveration measures are supplied in a “saverbox”. At the festival itself the organisers recognise that the “less […]

89 reasons not to teach sustainability

October 13, 2007

As you know, we’re on track to integrate sustainability across the curriculum by 2009. We’re trying to identify all the barriers to achieving that (so that we can work to reduce these hurdles). What other reasons have we missed? 1 Sustainability isn’t a real problem 2 Sustainability not a concern of my discipline 3 sustainability […]