Platform ecosystems and pedagogy
Posted on | August 10, 2009 | Comments Off
Andrew Gryf Paterson
This presentation will speak of experience learning about natural eco-system theory, and applying it as an investigative analysis and design tool for social and information spaces.
In January 2009, I spent a 2 week SCANZ residency (Solar Circuit Aoteroa New Zealand) at New Plymouth, making connections between a public park, the people involved in developing educational projects connected to it, and its online information representations (wiki, geo-data, kete websites). I noted the inward, internal and outgoing materials, organisms and data in the different systems involved.
Beyond that experience, I am currently working towards creating pedagogical methods to interpret ecologies and systems in project/ process design and management. One way to do this is to take and expanded understanding of the term ‘environmental awareness’, to include social, cultural, urban, natural and media/technological and informatic influences. Hence, ‘platform ecosystems’ maybe considered to be projects imagined by initiators to be sustainable, outgoing and ongoing developments, or to have a specific lifespan, inter- and co-dependent with other developments.
I will share a proposed schedule of studies for feedback, which aims to implement such ideas, as part of an experimental cross-disciplinary course within the new Aalto University.
http://agryfp.info/
Symposium for ART AND RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGIES
Posted on | August 5, 2009 | Comments Off
The symposium will take place August 13-16 in Aizpute (Latvia).
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