Pluriverse A Post-Development Dictionary Edited by Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria, and Alberto Acosta Tulika Books Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary contains over one hundred essays on transformative initiatives and alternatives to the currently dominant processes of globalized development, including its structural roots in modernity, capitalism, state domination, and masculinist values. It offers critical… Continue reading Pluriverse
Category: Unit 4
Bell Hooks – Engaged Pedagogy
Bell Hooks is known for her feminist thought and interesting work on pedagogy as an art. Here is a passage from her well known work where she shares with her readers her passion for the field of education and why she cannot remain a distant and aloof teacher. In this book, the author shares her… Continue reading Bell Hooks – Engaged Pedagogy
Theatre of the Oppressed
“The purpose of Theatre of the Oppressed is to rehumanize humanity.” — Augusto Boal Theatre of the Oppressed What is Theatre of the Oppressed? As created by Brazilian theatre visionary and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Augusto Boal (1931-2009), Theatre of the Oppressed (T.O.) is a form of popular community-based education that uses theater as a tool… Continue reading Theatre of the Oppressed
Verbatim Theatre
Theatre that incorporates the words of real people Verbatim theatre, as Will Hammond and Dan Steward point out in their excellent book on the subject, is not a form but a technique: a way of incorporating the words of real people, as spoken in private interview or public record, into drama. more here: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2012/may/08/michael-billington-verbatim-theatre
Carey Young – institutional critique – performance artist
http://www.careyyoung.com/ Carey Young (born 1970, lives and works in London) has developed her artistic practice from a cross-fertilization of disciplines including business, law, politics, science and communication. The tools and language of these different fields act as material for her installations, performances, text works and photographs, as well as for videos in which absurd relationships… Continue reading Carey Young – institutional critique – performance artist
Speacedeck – browser based collaborative ideation tool
https://spacedeck.com/ https://github.com/spacedeck This is the free and open-source version of Spacedeck, a web-based, real-time, collaborative whiteboard application with rich media support. Spacedeck was developed in 6 major releases during Autumn 2011 until the end of 2016 and was originally a commercial SaaS. The developers were Lukas F. Hartmann (mntmn) and Martin Güther (magegu). The… Continue reading Speacedeck – browser based collaborative ideation tool
THE XANADU® PARALLEL UNIVERSE — Visibly Connected Pages and Documents for a New Kind of Writing
https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/ IT WAS THE most radical computer dream of the hacker era. Ted Nelson’s Xanadu project was supposed to be the universal, democratic hypertext library that would help human life evolve into an entirely new form. Instead, it sucked Nelson and his intrepid band of true believers into what became the longest-running vaporware project in the… Continue reading THE XANADU® PARALLEL UNIVERSE — Visibly Connected Pages and Documents for a New Kind of Writing
Electronic Literature Collection
Electronic Literature Collection A Publication of the Electronic Literature Organization http://collection.eliterature.org/
Fictive Universities
The University of Bantshire Throbbing with knowledge since ’69 For literally months, @BantshireUni has been synonymous with balls-ups and faux pas in higher education marketing. We are a parody university. Obviously. Click on these images to see some of our favourite tweets. https://bantshire.github.io/ University Wankings
Accesible Wikis
Free We Built a Collaborative Documentation Site. Deploy Your Own With the Push of a Button. Library is searchable and renders content from Google Docs Northwestern University Knight Lab is a community of designers, developers, students, and educators working on experiments designed to push journalism into new spaces. The Lab provides an open, collaborative… Continue reading Accesible Wikis