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Cultures of Typographic Design
Timeline
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To Read: Future of Design Education website
Donald Norman called for contributors on the PhD in design website at the end of 2020 who would participate in a very large (re)evaluation of design pedagogy world wide. Thanks in no small part to Norman’s influence as an attractor, two hundred people offered their service. Norman et al have now launched a website and…
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To Read:: Designing Design Education: White Book on the Future of Design Education
This book is published in 2021 and is the result of a significant amount of work on the continent of Europe. There is another, similar effort to trouble and tease out the future(s) of design education that is being organized by Donald Norman and which is already drawing criticisms for the US-centricity of its foundational…
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To Read: Designing Constructionist Future – MIT Press
Seymour Papert studied with – and critiqued and extended – Piaget as part of Papert’s research into early models for Machine Learning. Papert defined constructionism such that we learn through/by constructing artifacts that are meaningful to us and through/by sharing them with audiences who are meaningful to us. I have seen a relationship between constructionism…
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The El Paso Shooting and Video Games as a Partisan Issue – The Atlantic
Ferguson insisted that the debate about video-game violence will live on as long as there are video games to play and researchers to study them. “But the evidence is very clear that there’s not a relationship between violent video games and violence in society. There’s not evidence of a correlation, let alone a causation,” he…
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Intergenerational Trauma Animation – YouTube
This video on Intergenerational Trauma was shared with me by a former student upon seeing my post on FB about feeling wrecked by the news of the mass shooting at El Paso Texas yesterday, 2019 08 03. It’s a lovely bit of story telling and it points a direction towards healing. My partner has noted…
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The Buddhist History of Moveable Type Before Gutenberg – Tricycle.org
Forget Johannes Gutenberg. The first person to ever make a book printed with moveable type was named Choe Yun-ui. — Read on tricycle.org/magazine/buddhist-history-moveable-type/ Here is an addendum to the western narrative that places Gutenberg and Germany at the center of the invention of moveable type and printing of books. I have been looking for a…
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A closer look at Microsoft’s new Kinect sensor – The Verge
developers will be able to use it with or without Azure — Read on www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18239860/microsoft-kinect-azure-dk-hands-on-mwc-2019 Microsoft has created a new Kinect sensor. During an invaluable conversation with artist Matthew Keff at the IEEE-GEM 2019 conference at Yale last week I learned about this re-introduction. The Kinect had been declared dead technology upon its notable absence…
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Ecozon@ Vol 8, No 2 (2017)
Journal of Literature, Culture and the Environment — Read on ecozona.eu/issue/view/124/showToc Bookmarking here so I can find it again later. This issue of the bilingual journal (Spanish and English) is dedicated to Ecocriticism and Computer- and Video- Games. It may be that “ecocriticism” is a particular critical lens. The idea of the greening of games…