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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 […]

Participatory storytelling to recapture countryside

October 21, 2007

I had two main reasons for my visit to the UK; sustainability education; and to talk about our development of models of participatory interactive storytelling. Totally unexpectedly (well perhaps not to me!), these two came together when I had a long talk with Beth Davidson from the Mapping the Necklace project at the DoTT07 Festival. […]

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 […]

DoTT marks the TREE

October 20, 2007

At the DoTT07 Festival I found some student work that is quite inspiring . As part of Dott07, design students were challenged to design a “stuff-0-meter”to help us understand more about the”hidden rucksack of everyday products”, cradle to grave, and make informed choices. The award was won by David Foster Smith. His winning entry “TREE”: Total Recyclability […]

Less stuff more living – and exactly how much stuff?

October 19, 2007

I’ve written before about ecolabels in computing: sticky labels on products giving it a green tick (or not). This is from the DoTT07 book: The amount of waste matter generated in the production a single laptop computer is close to 4,000 times its weight on your lap (gulp, and what if you’re writing on that […]