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Audience map for eLivingCampus
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 […]
Towards an eLivingCampus
August 11, 2008
Our software engineering class is working to develop the “Living Campus Information Infrastructure” . What does that mean? Good question, and one the students have been asking both us and their client, Paula Petley from our CEO’s office. Having gone through nearly two years of doing assignments with specific instructions, the students arrive in software […]
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 […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability, museum
Computing for Sustainability 
August 14, 2008
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