Bubbling Through a Winter Wonderland
Blowing Bubbles for June through August 2022 as we have the first Matariki Public Holiday, overseas travel is back, the COVID wave finally finds NZ, activists activate, and folks gear up for local...
View ArticleSix months in a freaky boat
Six months of Blowing Bubbles – summer, storms, travel and artificial intelligence. Featuring three conversations with Lucky Hawkins in the aftermath of the cyclone, recovery and renewed leadership....
View ArticleA virus, a pyramid, and a butterfly walked into a sustainable bar…
Adding to the collection of diagrams of sustainability. This time we add dimensions – so a triangle becomes a wedge and a pyramid And spirals and links become a pandemic. We finish with an ontological...
View ArticleA woodpecker, a genie and a snake
I’m giving a keynote at CompEd in India in December. My working title is “searching for computing’s soul”. I’m using the examples of ethics, sustainability and decolonising in the context of computing...
View Article900…791 Diagrams of Sustainability Sat on the Wall
I hereby declare that it is impossible to read the volume of sustainability-related literature being published. At least I can’t do it. So I choose to read papers only that contain a diagram. I think...
View Article901…1000 Sustainable Images from Summer Reading
I’ve reached the end of my summer reading pile (yes, still got a PhD to assess, and reviewing and …). As I read, I tag papers and sources that have candidate diagrams for this collection. On...
View ArticleReIndigenise/ReGenerate Computing
I can’t get to ICT4S this year, but I’m there in spirit – where “spirit” means in comic form, courtesy of Aksel and Oliver’s Zine Liminal Excavations. This was a lot of fun to put together with...
View ArticleEchoes of wisdom – Regenerative practice as professional practice
Finn Boyle’s Masters of Professional Practice is now on OPRES/Research Bank (https://doi.org/10.34074/thes.6401). This was an absolute pleasure to mentor – the subject matter, the approach, the...
View ArticlePost of a thread of a conference presentation as a podcast on podcasts as...
That was a fun one – podcasting an #OPSITARA conference presentation about podcasts in professional practice research. With Tim Lynch and Lucky Hawkins (plus the words of Jules Tautz and Finn Boyle,...
View ArticleEnsuring technology remains our tool
The newspaper asked me to write a piece exploring the last 25 years from a technology perspective. Here it is in print (along with the other really interesting contributions). “Write a 400-word...
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