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Computerised critters tell their story
At the National Geographic museum in Washington DC a Crittercam exhibition is showing how computing technology is helping to give greater insight into the world as seen by animals. In this field (actually mostly sea) the link between computing and sustainability is most appealing . I always try to be careful not to get carried […]
Interactive sustainability at National Maritime
October 24, 2007
Down the hill from the clocks at Greenwich is the National Maritime Museum. Underneath the ship driving simulator (you must try it) and the “all hands” interactive gallery is a small but effective gallery devoted to sustainability – primarily of the sea. Amongst the usual messages (pollution, energy, fish stocks) a few things worth noting: […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, museum
Seeding ideas in the power bill?
October 22, 2007
One of the goals of the DoTT07 Festival is to: re-frame food systems as design opportunities, and to consider what design steps we might take to make it easier for city-dwellers to grow their own fruit and vegetables. I’ve written before about the Rethinking School Lunch initiative. This American project aims to make food production an […]
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. […]
Computing for Sustainability 
October 24, 2007
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