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The Link to Spotify here (tbc) The following quotes are from the Thesis Whisperer. “The discussion section is where authors place their ideas about their research findings and consolidate, generalize, and interpret their research outcomes for the benefit of those in their field or for other communities” Swales starts by assuming that texts are social things: every reader has been ‘trained’ on…

(TRANSCRIPT. to be edited carefull soon – tbc) It’s been a few years now. When I caught a flight to Sydney. I stayed. In this lovely little hotel. The bit touristy in the middle of the city? Gorgeous restaurants! We’re going to walk to the Sydney Opera House. Um, parks around. And, it was close to the university there that has invited me to be an examiner for a PhD. So, this is a…

An homage to Antonin Artaud by Jacques Derrida: LINK A conference on Antonin Artaud by Jacques Derrida, 23 January 1997 Seminar “In homage to Antonin Artaud” organised in New Delhi by the National School of Drama, Delhi University and the French Embassy For Artaud the works are intended as weapons, not commodities, but they become commodified in any event. How then to restore, to protect, their…

I wrote and submitted a book chapter. On Consulting aka Transactional Development John Maeda’s Tech Report: https://designintech.report/Capgemini: https://www.capgemini.com/au-en/careers/career-paths/students-and-graduates/D&I: https://www.design-industry.com.au/Frog Design: https://www.frog.co/Jony Ive Salary: Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jony_Ive“In 2011, it was reported that Ive…

People come to chance processes. From many places. Through a lot of different Pathways. If “chance processes” is a room, it’s a room with lots of different kinds of doors. What I’m doing now is opening a door for you, to the room called chance processes. It is common. It is ubiquitous. Lots of people use them. But in the creative act in industrial design. Um, I haven’t found anybody else. So,…

The EJAtlas takes seriously the belief that the peasants, the polluted, the workers, the indigenous are not a minority, and are neither simply victims nor spectators but that they constitute the driving force behind the necessary sustainability transformation. Temper, L., Demaria, F., Scheidel, A. et al. The Global Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas): ecological distribution conflicts as forces…

In “My Seditious Heart,” Roy rides to battle against a host of troubles. Most frequently, she criticizes India’s fondness for big dams, and its cruelty to the people displaced by them. She lambasts the American imperium and its souped-up capitalism, multinational institutions like the World Bank, and corporate greed. She flays the Hindu supremacists in India, who have sparked pogroms, divided…

I got Jezz Bezos and Larry Smarr to have dinner

In my imaginary, I booked a table at a restaurant in Seattle. Canlis? Maybe. I invited Jeff and Larry to a meal. To talk about the coming together of the kinds of things they have been talking about.  I did this for an epistolary podcast. LINK I speak to a former student, nay I am badgering a former student (as you do) to collaborate with me. Are not all our students agents in an ecology of the…

When I look at the reply to the question – Hey google which are best design schools on the planet? – I am bemused. Take a look here – LINK. All the schools are in the US. One in Milan, 2 in London and one in Zurich. Really? Which gives us the segue – for you to listen to my ramble (LINK) or for you to indulge in the though experiments – below. Now let us look at the most noteworthy designs of…

How should we do “Education for the poor”?

SOURCE LINK James, This is a long winded thank you. For your words in the book and in the podcast. I have been reading your book and listening to the podcast episode (2014 EconTalk). I am not an education theorist, so I am listening for a background understanding. But also, for a better appreciation of the challenge of education when it is for the extreme poor. My interest is pedagogy. Plus, I…

Do you practice Strength based learning?

Okay, today’s story is about the fact that there are 92 million migrant children in India. The majority could be non-literate.The Supreme Court had a dummy spit about this. The Government of India had to act on it. The outcome? For one access to education. And for another, dedicated schools for converting non-literate children in the age group of 8 to 14 into literate children. High quality,…

How do you teach Manufacturing Processes?

The answer to the question is as usual, choose the path: Content ORMethod I have taught this course in the CONTENT way. Yes. Through case studies, through visits to factories, and as a program of activation about how things are made. But this is not about the CONTENT way. On this occasion we did something different. To know more click on the link and listen to the podcast. The 1929 Austin…

How do you design a course?

reate wonderful human beings?

In a recent podcast episode I mention this phrase. That I said this in 2003. When I landed in Australia. One meaning of this phrase takes you down the path that you should not treat poorly performing students any different from the way you treat the high achievers. Okay we leave that for now. That is the world we have. That is the world we have accepted. But I do not accept the world we have.…

This was not a job. This was a project. To update, upgrade and to make education align with the contemporary thinking in pedagogy, learning and education.

In my first four years in Australia I worked as the Program Director of an undergraduate Industrial Design Program. This was not a job. This was a project. To update, upgrade and to make education align with the contemporary thinking in pedagogy, learning and education. The project probably never ended. It is still to be seen. I am still doing this project. The names have changed. It has…

To go Back or to go Forward? That is the question

There was this storm last night. I get hay fever. And that is the end of the night. So ABC 774 all night and I was there before @SammyJ came in to work. Unsplash Link So, I have been thinking. Let us treat this as a thought experiment. The Covid Pivot – a full two years of education online means something. Historically – what it means is that I ought to return the grant money I received for…

The 8 Parts of the PhD