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Creativity as Compulsion

This piece was originally written for a workplace creativity blog — republishing here for the record.

Dec 24, 2024

Creativity as Compulsion

Dec 24, 2024

Chairlift Through a Cloudscape

A surprise visit to a start-up studio in West London leads to the discovery of ‘embodied VR’ and a fantastic voyage.

Dec 22, 2024

Digitally created image of two robots on a chairlift journey through a cloudscape, on a chairlift held in place by lasers.

Dec 22, 2024

End of an Error

Wandering through a local Cardiff park with my parents at some point in 1979, I spotted the then Prime Minister on the campaign trail and…

Oct 31, 2024

Photograph of TV screen featuring image of Kier Starmer surrounded by group of young people and the BBC headline ‘Labour wins General Election’ at the bottom of the screen.

Oct 31, 2024

Where Learning Technology meets Internet Radio

You work with or are interested in learning technology. You love music. Yet somehow, you’ve never quite found a way to combine the two…

May 19, 2024

Promotional image for Association for Learning Technology’s annual conference, to be held in Manchester 3–5 September 2024. Image contains event text on abstract background of geometric shapes.

May 19, 2024

Getting The Next Ten Years Right

tldr: CogX gave me the cognitive dissonance of trying to balance retaining a critical mindset on AI and the now familiar feelings of…

Apr 15, 2024

Sketched image contains seven panels representing individual sessions attended as well as a selection of scattered photographs, handwriting, and placements of CogX logos.

Apr 15, 2024

Building blocks for ‘City 2030’

A co-design climate workshop

Feb 18, 2024

Two tables of women in discussion at a workshop. Both tables have three people at them. There is a display of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals on the wall behind the tables.

Feb 18, 2024

Bringing Climate to the Curriculum

A Rendezvous with Disaster

Feb 17, 2024

View of New York skyscrapers from the vantage point of a viewing platform with an orange sky from the pollution particiles from Canadian wildfires.

Feb 17, 2024

Memories of a Home Retreat

As a kid, up until my 30s, I was a diarist. This meant that thoughts got captured for posterity in the private space of my journal rather…

Feb 17, 2024

Timeline graphic showing the adoption of varying reflective writing tools over the period 1984–2024. Covers a paper diary from 1984–2013, Blogger (2006–2013), three different instances of the use of WordPress, Twitter (2009–2024), Medium (2016–2024), Mastodon (2022–2024) and Bluesky (2023–2024).

Feb 17, 2024

A Climate Copilot for Digital Education

So, Microsoft have made their new OpenAI-powered tool Copilot (‘Your everyday AI companion’) available to certain education clients. On…

Dec 19, 2023

A Climate Copilot for Digital Education

Dec 19, 2023

Breaking new ground with ALTc Radio

On farms and lockdowns

Nov 1, 2023

Photograph of programme for 1992 Glastonbury Festival. Includes an illustration of three people dancing in a field, being watched by a fox.

Nov 1, 2023

Dom Pates

Dom Pates

Global thinking, technology, education, learning spaces, music, Japan, writing, travel, peace... City, University of London Senior Educational Technologist...

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