Omnipotence without Omniscience: The Ethics of Design

July bears down heavily in Southern Louisiana. The twin oppressors of heat and humidity render a dullness to the air that 2 o’clock thunderstorms do little to abate. In his 1851 memoir “The Manhattaner in New Orleans”, A. Oakey Hall described the plight of the “can’t...

Seamless, Social, and Supervised?

As the field of mobile learning has matured, educational researchers like Looi et al. (2010) and Kearney, Shuck, Burden, & Aubusson (2012) have moved from an initial focus on software and device design to instead place at the nucleus of inquiry the kinds of...
Qu’est-ce que le design?

Qu’est-ce que le design?

Legs worn out from a Sunday afternoon spent pacing the gallery halls, we found reprieve in the cool darkness of the Walker Art Center’s Mediatheque. An aimless scroll through the touchscreen remote controlling the cinema collection landed on a charmingly blunt...