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SimPa connecting stories and landscape
One of the exciting things about the SimPa project is that we don’t really know where it is headed. We’re working with various Kai Tahu runaka to help them retell their stories in different media, primarily in a 3D game environment. We have no preconceptions about the stories or the forms they might take. As […]
SciCity finalist in TUANZ
November 7, 2007
We’ve had a long standing partnership with the Otago Museum, together we’ve done some really fun projects, mostly in the arena of bringing digital interactivity to science education. One of Otago Museum’s most exciting team members is Amos Mann (no relation). A couple of years ago we collaborated on the SciCards project. Now their SciCityproject is a […]
Yet another binder of stuff to cram in?
November 7, 2007
At Otago Polytechnic we’re committed to an “every graduate” approach to sustainability. We’re working towards the integration of education for sustainability in every programme by 2009. But are we going about it the right way? sometimes when you are so close to a project, it is hard to see past the gravel to the path […]
No, it is not marketing’s fault – beyond the paper recycling bin
November 3, 2007
What am I doing now that detracts from a more sustainable future? On Thursday I presented “Green IT” to Otago University’s IT Seminar, organised by Neil James. Not knowing who to expect I started with “curriculum; community and compost” and then tried to make the talk generic enough to engage people from any of those […]
Delicate bridges
October 31, 2007
In the last session of ICHIM07 David and Jennifer introduced a video of Makkuni Ranjit’s work Eternal Gandhi. Tactile computers become traditional interfaces – the acts are not of mice and screens but of turning a prayer wheel, chanting in groups and weaving quilts. There was a strong sustainability message. Ghandi organised villages into sustainable […]
Computing for Sustainability 
November 12, 2007
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