Problemshares and other #digitaltrans formations
I just got back from attending the fourth and final workshop on collaborative learning from the Community-powered Digital Transformation project run by David Gauntlett and colleagues at the University of…
Protest Camp’s Anna Feigenbaum takes on tear gas at #OccupyGezi and beyond Over the past five days Turkey’s government has unleashed thousands of canisters, cartridges and helicopter drums of tear…
In this climate, direct action is what it takes
Protest Camp’s Anna Feigenbaum discusses No Dash for Gas‘ West Burton power station protest camp in the broader context of direct action and Climate Justice. As Hurricane Sandy swept up the Eastern seaboard of…
Binders full of Baudrillard: Are internet memes today’s Disneyland?
In 1981, Baudrillard wrote that “Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.” Last week in my History of Consumer Society and…
Spontaneous Urban Design: An interview with 123 Occupy
“Someone mentioned to me recently the popular union slogan “8 hours for work, 8 hours for sleep, 8 hours for what we will”. I’ve been thinking over the course of my work with the occupy movement that people…
Place-based Protest: A Theory-Slam on Occupy Wall St
This protest is place-based yet does not seek to claim place as property. It enacts a ‘reclamation of space’ yet not in the form of confrontation or taking back. It…
This post is updated and adapted from an answer I gave to the question ‘Are we in the beginning, middle, or end of the Occupy Movement?’ while a panellist at…
Collaborative Learning: Challenges and Best Practices
Yesterday’s Collaborative Learning workshop, sponsored by the HEA, brought together HE teachers from Winchester, Bournemouth, Birmingham, University College Falmouth and University of Huddersfield. Below are some of the shared challenges and…
Video Now Available: Media, Politics and Protest Camps in the Occupy Social Movement
You can now watch Protest Camp Collective’s Anna Feigenbaum and Patrick McCurdy discuss the impacts of the Occupy movement, followed by a keynote address from award-winning journalist Chris Hedges.