lwandile blog: the author

Home is where the trotters are

A seagull in Scotland has developed the habit of stealing chips from a neighborhood shop.

Yay, there are times when it seems things start to fit into place. Discovering digital artists working and living in and with the materiality of natural places is so refreshing. Specially, when some of them are your school friends.

Wray Village on Youtube may make David and i jealous of Keith and Mark (respected, HCI people at Lancaster, who helped in setting up and studying the Wifi) but only because it makes such an important contribution to ideas about community, rural places and natural disasters ....

Sharing my beach with my friends brings us mutual moments of belonging within an ever changing world; some functionality on social networking technologies can offer similar experiences.

In Mali i saw a wonderful example of how playful and social pursuits become etched into the land.

Understanding whose choice it is to adopt the new to preserve the ancient is not easy for a passing observer

i'm going to ground my thread on my recent African experiences by thinking about Africa as the dust-bin of the world and why the life-time of devices and environmental impacts should be something we consider in technology design. More generally, it has led me to think about two more fundamental things for design more generally

Humankind's infrastructures have knowingly or unknowingly touched every part of this planet yet within our culture we refer to places as natural. i've been wondering what this delusion is about.