Once you read about it, you can’t believe it’s taken this long, but you also can’t believe we had it any other way. Ian Cheng‘s works are essentially living art, or conversely, as he describes them, “computer games that play themselves”. Of course, there’s something inimitable about the joy of forming your opinion on a painting,…
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Our gadgets are getting smaller and increasingly require barely any human intervention. Taxis, food, music, and even the weekly shop appear as if by magic at a simple voice command. But as our computer-based solutions become invisible, are we actually less in control? Maker culture doesn’t only get in the middle and involve the user,…
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Is imagination only about creating images in your mind? We believe that everyone has the capacity to imagine, however their mind works, and it’s those differences we celebrate. This article from The Conversation looks at how some people don’t have the ability to visualise, and how they believe this affects the ability to imagine. Describers, doers…
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“Imagination is the source of all human achievement”. Sir Ken Robinson Teacher, writer, researcher, education specialist and iOi Patron Sir Ken Robinson is a pioneer of this philosophy. Whilst we focus on empathy on Imagination Matters, what better time than to revisit his talk as part of a series called ‘Educating The Heart And Mind‘, at the Dalai Lama Center…
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Interactivity has long been associated with engaging young people in learning, but this exciting new project goes one further and actually involves teenagers in the design. In this article from The Guardian, read about Melbourne’s famous Scienceworks museum and how their new exhibition is doing more to promote STEM subjects to young adults. The principle “science…
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