#emergent tech

[emilyamf]

anthropologists have known for many years that people appropriate and improvise with technologies people shape their uses of tech socially and culturally to meet contingencies But dominant narratives continue to be led by the belief that tech solutions can solve societal problems

https://t.co/5BVKz6bfvd Sarah Pink, Why we need anthropologists see hypothes.is notes

[buildingstoryworlds]

Building Storyworlds: the art, craft & biz of storytelling returns next semester

Looking forward to next semester. I’ll be teaching Building Storyworlds at Columbia University again. This marks our fifth year and the course is expanding in some exciting ways. I recently received a grant to design and build a physical computing kit that we’ll use within the classroom to explore new forms of narrative, while also measuring learning retention and transference. The kit is intended to help students from the School of the Arts without a computer background to learn conditional statements.

The course fills up quick and is open to students across the university. I also allow room for folks to audit the class too. In the past that’s been people from other programs, schools and/or working professionals. If you’re interested in auditing please contact me.

This tumblr will ramp up in the coming months and will be a place to catch my prep for the course and also an archive of elements from the class once we start.

In the meantime

Last week I launched a curated site and weekly newsletter for those interested emerging tech and its impact on storytelling, play, design, education, health and humanity. With over 1,000 links and growing, Culture Hacker is part of a research/writing experiment for a new book that I’m writing which will be published in 2018. For more info visit www.culturehacker.com