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This is a new area put aside for free-flow writing. I would like to try and develop a kind of tagging interface for it - but for the moment it will just be a place to keep notes about how to evolve the qualitative research further from the second draft of the dissertation developing at http://herwork.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Herwork- and will develop some areas that were outlined and discussed with MikePunt. This area will also be used to develop a cost benefit analysis of the theirwork project, which will be published later this year in the shape of a Project Audit PDF and will link to the paper I gave at the ExploitingPotential symposium. See abstract below - This presentation will explore how using the free/open source model enables producers to work towards sustainable approaches to software development. Explorations will draw on research being gathered for a project that is building a collaborative online web tool. The web tool is re-coding an existing Wikki engine to meet the needs of a community group who want to understand how they can look after their community place sustainably. Audit framework so far Introduction A software and hardware used
B virtual and real time travel
C office and workshop equipment
Recommendations Inspiration from Emmet to help structure/form Check out this 'Personal Annual Report': http://feltron.com/05report_index.html Interesting from the point of view of people assessing the cumulative effect of their own annual activities, reminded me of your idea of assessing your own environmental footprint. Maybe also related in this way is a project by an ex-Plymouth student that assesses your political activity: http://pindices.org/ Free-flow writing 1. Thinking about wetlands Two of the people I have been walking with have made me think about an aspect of Loe Pool that I had not before - its wetland. A sustainable designer pointed me to this essay 'Reading the Wetlands by William Howarth in Adams, C. Hoelscher, S. & Till, K. (eds.) (2001) Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies Minneapolis: University of Minnesota This book in general affected my dissertation but this Chapter has been brought to my attention in the last month.
Excerpt p55 Scholars have long used spatial metaphors to fence the pastures of intellect: one occupies a domain, province or field of knowledge, depending on rank and ambition. Today mapping covers a vast range of academic turf, staked with many claims about canon, period, and authorship. this "imagined territory" is ostensibly beyond natural limits because its basis is procedure. Yet procedure is spatial, since it's a series of steps, a way of performing, to move in a desired direction...
In the view of Canadian novelist Robertson Davies, imagination is "a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probabilty. Only those who know little of nature think imagination can surpass it.
I need to write a paragraph about how this essay has helped me to see how wetland can make us think about our imagination, our history and our changing attitude towards landscape. Also, perhaps I should start group co-participants photographs and comparing them, as well as their words. This co-participant always clings close to the river. Another, clings by the sea. |
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