Work
I am currently the Designer and Content Developer for www.thinkingsite.co.uk.
It's a site designed for teachers, community organisations,
artists, academics and anyone else interested in the following
themes:
- Creative Thinking
- Mapping Thinking
- Collective Thinking
My colleagues are based at Salford University and North
West Arts Board respectively; my responsibilities include:
- Site design and maintenance
- Information architecture/navigation
- Research and write content
- Host and administer the discussion section
- Identify and locate interested parties
In relation to this project, my personal research interests
are:
- Understanding creative process
- Clarifying the role of language in relation to understanding
- Defining the limits of thought, and recognising habitual
thinking
- Holistic/systems thinking
In relation to digital media, my interest here is:
- Web and multimedia development to assist creative practice
- Facilitating online communities
Play
I enjoy Recumbent Gaze as a place where I write what is
effectively a journalistic column, with occasional more
academic pieces. I am inspired by the Internet: what you
can do with it and where it will go in the future. This
is my personal site where you can find out about me, if
you look around.
Writing inspires me. Our understanding of ourselves, other
people and life itself is coloured by narrative perception.
That is, we experience, describe and remember things within
a literary framework: our thoughts, and how they are mediated
by language. Writing is thus a means of refining our perception;
practising it is a form of taking responsibility.
I find the combination of narrative and the Internet particularly
interesting, as a form of creativity that is deeper and
more sustaining than simple visual effect. I like the vision
of Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of HTML and thus, arguably,
of the Web itself: he wanted the Web to reflect the multifarious
interactions of humanity.
These are some of my thoughts underlying this project:
London
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