In class you need to talk to your ontograph. Five minutes maximum. Present it not to me but to/for each other. What is it about? What is it doing? What do you think it shows? What has your thing nowRead more…
Handing in the Ontograph
If your work is a physical object you need to hand it in to Adrian in class. If your work is digital/electronic then you need to upload it to a google folder. Please make sure your name appears in theRead more…
Strange Ontographs
Bogost’s carpenty meets strange ontography: I like Dominic Wilcox’s comment about quiet kids and what goes on in their heads). These are a form of ontography where you make machines that are lists because you bring together things in oddRead more…
Computers Do Die and Crash
Stranger things have happened. OK, grumpy post. Several ‘my computer died’ emails are arriving. I’ve explained several times how important it is that you you have a back up of key work that is not a copy on the sameRead more…
A Late Blooming
If you’re looking for another way to try to get a handle on where we’ve got to so far. Isabelle has a particularly elegant, compelling, and delightfully visual, explanation. Highly recommended (and well done).
Tom’s Three Prompts
We are building an ontograph from our readings. We are doing this by setting three reading prompts each week. I set the first ones, and now we are taking turns to do it. Tom’s turn this week. These are hisRead more…
Week 4-1
We heard where everyone’s work is up to, problems, developments, and new directions. Key points: we want density of things which means detail. There should be/can be a mix of human, not human, technical, social, animal, environmental. Some prompts: whatRead more…
Reading 04
This is an odd extract from the middle of Latour’s Reassembling the Social. The one book where he explicitly addresses just what he means by actor-network theory (ANT). This chapter is written as an imaginary dialogue between Latour and aRead more…
Week 3 Notes
From Michael: Discussing the environment of the classroom. The orientation of the classroom we are currently in is not ideal for the kind of work that we do in this studio. Everyone is scattered and facing a different way makingRead more…
Reflection 01
Monique takes her task of being the reflector in hand. Well done. Making is how to learn to do it and to see if it works. Yep. I’m always surprised at how well acculturated we have become to thinking aboutRead more…