When pinning down our research, we’re encouraged to think of our project in terms of what problem or opportunity we’re responding to. I’m working to realise an opportunity. In my feeling place, I’m pursuing this research to help lift up my Samoan people. But on a day-to-day basis, it’s spite that fuels me and it’s the problems that grease the gears.
Read MoreWherein we kick off the new year with an entirely serious study of then-and-now attitudes to academia -- using vegetables.
Read MoreWhen you’re designing new technology, or new ways to use existing technology, I don’t know how many creative technologists’ relationships with friends and family start changing as they grow into more awareness. I wonder how many “agree to disagree” moments lie in my future. I find myself bracing for the way it may ultimately shift some of my closest relationships. And on some days I wish I’d stayed away from a thesis that had anything to do with cultural heritage.
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