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Hopeful tourism computing?
A couple of weeks a ago I interviewed Tess Brosnan, a film maker who wanted to talk about links between citizen science and hopeful tourism. This led me to read Annette Pritchard, Nigel Morgan and...
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Why have you chosen computing?
As part of the development of the Excellence in Communications project, we’re planning an NZ-wide survey of students and industry to get a deeper understanding of IT student and industry values and...
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Am I an activist?
Ben Shneiderman declared at CHI last year that “HCI is an activist discipline”. We’re trying to work out the implications of this – what would it mean for computing to be an activist discipline?...
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The role of activism in ICT for Sustainability: Learning from practitioners
Here’s the draft of the paper we just finished. It is based on our conversations published as podcasts on SustainableLens. Samuel Mann, Shane Gallagher, Nell Smith Abstract— This paper describes an...
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Impressed with Interactions
This month’s edition of Interactions is pretty much a must read, cover to cover. Seriously great job Ron Wakkary and Erik Stolterman. Here are some of the highlights for me: (other papers that are...
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Top three readings for Sustainable HCI
At the sustainable HCI workshop at CHI this month we each agreed to contribute our top three “must reads” for Sustainable HCI (spoiler, none of these papers even mention Sustainable HCI). Of course,...
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Ethics and sustainability
A student asks a great question: Why does the Polytechnic focus on a sustainable viewpoint in everything it does, rather than an ethical one? We spend a few weeks discussing ethics in Software...
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2025 fictional abstracts – role of computing in sustainable development
This is such an interesting challenge. Ten years is within research horizons, close enough not to get distracted by hoverboards but far enough away to think outside the box. I’m going for a positive...
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#Gaik 2025 (first go at 2025 abstract)
Prompted by this request, here’s my first go at an abstract for a 2025 critical computing conference. (the editors rightly say that it is too long and not scientific enough so another one on the way)....
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#Gaik 2025 (another go at 2025 abstract)
Prompted by this request, here’s a second go at an abstract for a 2025 critical computing conference (shorter than this one). Precursors and implications of #Gaiak’s holistic Ecological Computing...
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Little things that multiply to create positive system change for sustainability
Here’s my lecture from late last year to Dunedin U3A’s lecture series on Climate Change, organised by SCAN, the Senior Climate Action Network. Here is the whole playlist.
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Interviewed…
I was interviewed by Bill Tomlinson for the University of California online course, “ICS 5: Global Disruption and Information Technology”, here it is:
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What gives me hope for computing education for sustainability?
Here’s a little thing I wrote for a special topic in Interactions: Computing Education for Sustainability – What gives me hope? Here is a page view version, or via its doi....
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Transformation Mindset – update
Here’s a new graphic for the Transformation Mindset. And a paper that describes the application in Community Development. (p59).
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So excited about this. We’re sketching an alternative conference proceedings for ICT4S…Visual ICT4S. Join us and learn to sketchnote in the process. Can’t draw? Doesn’t matter – Miriam Sturdee will...
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10th anniversary update – visualising sustainability
It’s been 10 years since I started collecting diagrams of sustainability. Here’s some more. 283. Circles of sustainability (McCarthy and James wiki) The Circles of Sustainability approach is...
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Sustainability diagrams 327 through 361
Adding more diagrams of sustainability. 327. 23 Honey bee practices (Avery and Bergensteiner 2007) 328. Regenerative system sketch (from Mang and Haggard 2106). 329. System of mind (Bill Reed 2007)...
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The Diagrams of Sustainability: 362 through 400
Adding more diagrams of sustainability. 362. Distributive justice as basis for intergenerational sustainability (Vasconcellos Oliveira 2018) Each of the targets was benchmarked against the principles...
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A walk on the wild side: Diagrams of Sustainability 401 through 435
More for the list. 401. Metamap (Ray Maher, Samuel Mann et al. 2018) MetaMAP is an interactive graphical tool which supports collaborative investigation and design for achieving SDGs. It helps diverse...
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A bird, a turtle, lots of circles and a dress. 40 more diagrams of...
Adding to the collection. 436. Sustainable well-being as two coupled goals (Glasser 2018) 437. Transformative learning for a sustainable future (Laininen 2018) 438. Mmm…Cake. (van Kerkhoff 2013)...
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