Do you have any old Braun hair driers, Walkman or telephone (including old mobiles), lights or toys, stack hats that are just filling a box somewhere in your shed or attic. Sorry we have no financial offering for these goods but if you no longer need them email us with a photo to see if it can help with the collection.

Things they’re very interested in:
- 1980 swatches
- walkman and walkman 2
- 1960 consumer goods: mixmaster, braun products
- early mobile phones

Either post a comment here, hit me up on twitter, or get in touch with

Julian (dot) Pratt (at) rmit.edu.au

Cheers!

One thread of the presentation will discuss Etienne Wenger’s take on
ambiguity, as described in his book Communities of Practice. Rather
than talk about that now (and send you all away to the other talks
I wanted to muse on another big concept in Wenger’s theory:
reification.

Wenger says that “in reification we project ourselves into the world,
and not having to recognize ourselves in those projections, we
attribute to our meanings an independent existence” (p58)

This sounds like a good description of what happens when designers use
sketching to visualize the relationships between elements of a design.
Ive been looking for ways to frame this lately, and I think
reification would be a good start. Particularly as it compliments the
other half of Wenger’s duality (reification, participation)

Note to self: examine projects in the phd through this frame… What
artifacts emerge as critical?

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From these different opinions on knowledge, different theoretical perspectives are built, giving us different methodologies and eventually, tools to help us do our research. (we'll look more at this in weeks 3&4)

We then looked at some outcomes of research, books, projects, and reports.

I also presented the course outline, attached to this post

tasks for this week are to 

1. read the Course Notes for Module 1, including:

• Chapter 1 of Denzin and Lincoln’s (2003) text The Landscape of Qualitative Research http://digital.lib.rmit.edu.au/ereserve/notes06/grap2024/31259007734846.pdf where a deeper and broader explanation and discussion of qualitative research is written.

Maxwell (2005, p. 46 -55) discusses the development of a topic through ‘concept maps’. A digitised version of this section is available through the library (http://digital.lib.rmit.edu.au/ereserve/notes09/grap1174/31259009190724.pdf) 

Undertake the concept map for your research topic . After you have synthesised and clarified the topic, discuss your key research question and three sub-questions in class and on the discussion board . Once others have stated their questions, try asking them questions, providing feedback and helping one another in clarifying and focusing the question more . 

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Its great to see how other teachers introduce their projects.

Today I’m adding a 20 minute section to a subject introduction seminar (post about my bit here), and it’s great to be back in the theater. Kyla’s intro is awesome.. using tinderbox to situate her subject this semester in the context of previous subjects, and what kind of skills you’ll both need and develop during the semester. It’s really encouraging as an example of the pedagogical ideas that the Media program began renewing a few years ago coming to fruition.

This semester the subject is centered on the new roles of Social Media producer. Check out these three job descriptions

Even watching Kyla’s intro makes me think about upgrading my ancient copy of tinderbox.. but then again.. at this stage in my PhD, I need another writing environment like I need a hole in the head. (this is being written in scrivener)

There’s a thread in this issue about how the outcomes drive the tools – Scrivener looks easier to me to fit in the dissertation (ie linear) format. Tinderbox is great for the non-linear type of writing project. But come to think of it, when I’ve use TB in the past it has been to use my ability in the non-linear to create what was essentially a linear work. Rendering a reading of the thought networks flat.

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The article introduces our framework for Social Data Visualization, and gives a good intro to the idea of object centered social systems. Let us know what you think!

As you can see – Luca has really loved it.. (that’s the original house in the background)

lifesaver

On the PhD front, I visited with Prof. Terry Winograd and Bill Verplank at Stanford University, and spoke with them about their work educating for IxD and designing Stanford’s d.School.

While in the bay area I also visited Danny Stillion at IDEO Palo Alto, spoke with Dan Saffer about his new studio and upcoming book with O’Reilly Media, and led a lunchtime workshop on links between IxD academia and industry with Adaptive Path.

Later, in Vancouver, I worked on visions for the Interaction Design Association with the rest of the IxDA board of directors, and  pre-conference planning with the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at SFU, for Interaction09.

I am now very happy to be back in the land of real mobile bandwidth.