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Strong message without the preaching?
I’ve got a couple of public lectures coming up. Both are about our approach to “sustainable practitioners”. One is at the end of a series of lectures with a threaded story – we’ve got a problem, and here’s some suggestions to get out of this situation. So, I’m writing the titles and blurbs to go […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability
Little systems thinking in games either
August 17, 2008
I’m still on the hunt for systems thinking in museums. I still don’t know why museums tend to shy away from complexity in their interactive exhibits. Martin suggests that it is the complexity of making such games that dissuades museums – they don’t have the big budgets of the games industry. Good point. […]
Audience map for eLivingCampus
August 14, 2008
Audience mapping was used by student groups to identify stakeholders of the Living Campus project. Ethics is an important component of the Agile development framework (earlier post). We strongly believe that ethics should be integrated, and the best way of doing this is from the start. The Living Campus student groups have been identifying stakeholders […]
Computing award for sustainability “far beyond own footprint”
August 12, 2008
Last week the winners in the Computerworld Excellence Awards were announced. For the first time there was an award for Sustainable ICT. I thoroughly enjoyed being a judge for this award, along with Peter Noble of IRD and the govt3 programme and Claudia Vidal of Uniservices. Here’s the judges’ report from the paper version of […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability, NZ Computing
System metaphor for eLivingCampus
August 11, 2008
Our software engineering class is working to develop the “Living Campus Information Infrastructure” . We’re working towards a project proposal at the end of the first iteration, focussing at the moment on the business opportunity. While most groups moved quite quickly to an information system to support a garden (ie signs, irrigation systems), some are […]
August 18, 2008
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