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+ | ==== complexity, metaphors and tools ==== | ||
- | # -*- mode: org; coding: utf-8; -*- | + | preludes & summaries |
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+ | * complexity often more easily understood in reverse | ||
+ | * importance of metaphor, problems with binary ' | ||
+ | * using ' | ||
+ | * technology is Promethian | ||
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+ | summary | ||
+ | * computers are performance machines built out of metaphor | ||
+ | * metaphors direct our creative practice, (eg. git tree, file system, copy/paste, pipes) | ||
+ | * document or application centric views may be problematic. suggestions; more metaphors, assemblages, | ||
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+ | * complexity emerges out of interaction and assumptions | ||
+ | * importance of looking backward as well as forward | ||
+ | * from mute systems -> conversational systems | ||
+ | * find ways to make context more apparent. material, ephemera and objects. | ||
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+ | 3 stage exercise | ||
+ | - image selection. "what tool is this?" and "how can this tool work with other tools?" | ||
+ | - groups ~5. explain each tool in circle, explain how they can work together, single shared metaphor | ||
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+ | introduction | ||
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+ | questions? | ||
- | * notes from chat w. femke | ||
misc. | misc. | ||
- | | + | * embodied tools |
- | - tools as mechanisms for thought > process | + | |
- | - tools as collaborator rather than instrument | + | |
- | - reflexive use of tools | + | |
- | - requirement / necesity for ' | + | |
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- | - position statement -> sketching in afternoon | + | |
context | context | ||
- | | + | * design as problems of collision (rather than problem solving or ' |
- | - collision of source materials -> versioning & conflict resolution | + | |
- | - collisoin " | + | |
- | - heterogeneous systems -> unix pipes metaphor | + | |
- | - role of metaphor adoption from print -> computing, computing -> computing, etc | + | |
- | - ' | + | |
- | - repreasenation | + | * representation |
- | - ideology vs. pragmatism -> FLOSS positioning/ | + | |
questions / problems | questions / problems | ||
- | + | * context -> how to make more apparent/ | |
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- | - metaphors in use - print/ | + | |
- | - what new mataphors? ' | + | |
- | - tangible systems -> (qfwfq/ | + | |
- | - connecting incompatible or partially compatible parts -> friction | + | |
- | - toola as collaborators -> conversational interaction models | + | |
- | - how to ' | + | |
- | - document formats -> programmes -> VB Macro virus in Word -> ' | + | |
frictions | frictions | ||
- | | + | * e.g. pipes -> API -> ORB |
- | - historic examples / other paths -> e.g. symbolics concordia, metafont, etc | + | |
refs and misdirdections | refs and misdirdections | ||
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- | - dream machines ("a minority report" | + | |
- | - agrippa -> book | + | |
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- | * preludes & summaries | + | |
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- | - a discussion of preludes and summaries | + | |
- | - complexity best understood in reverse | + | |
- | - importance of metaphor, problems with binary ' | + | |
- | + | ||
- | - technology is Promethian -> Epimetheus, brother of prometheus (hindsight, afterthought, | + | |
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- | + | ||
- | - summary | + | |
- | - computers are performance machines built out of metaphor | + | |
- | - metaphors direct our creative practice, (eg. git tree, file system, copy/paste, pipes) | + | |
- | - document or application centric views may be problematic. suggestions; | + | |
- | - we can see the tools we use as extensions of ourselves (literally) as collaborators, | + | |
- | - complexity emerges out of interaction and assumptions | + | |
- | - importance of looking backward as well as forward | + | |
- | - from mute systems -> conversational systems | + | |
- | - find ways to make context more apparent. material, ephemera and objects. | + | |
- | + | ||
- | + | ||
- | - 3 stage exercize | + | |
- | - 1. image selection. "what tool is this?" and "how can this tool work with other tools?" | + | |
- | - 2. groups ~5. explain each tool in circle, explain how they can work together, single shared metaphor | + | |
- | - 3. group of representatives of each group. repeat with shared metaphors. | + | |
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- | - introduction | + | |
- | - questions? | + | |