Game Controllers
We built a bunch of game controllers and interactive displays.
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We share about some of the projects we work on, and relevant things that we find interesting:
Interactive Animations
We presented a playable explanation of games as interactive animations.
Homo Ludens
“From the moment we enter this world, we instinctively invent ways to have fun, and share our inventions…”
Terminator
A life-size T800 terminator skull that tracks the faces of people walking past.
Zoetropes
We built a number of zoetropes to give people a tangible experience of animation.
Remote Control Hack
Infrared remote signal hacking with a BBC micro:bit.
WeCode24
An after-school coding programme that cultivates hacker-culture among South African youth.
Colour
An animated short: In a busy life, Copi is a father who tries to teach the right way to his son, Paste.
The Pretence of Knowledge
“If man is not to do more harm than good ... he must learn to cultivate environments like a gardener.”
Computational Sustainability
Game-like systems with which to play, and learn, and design.
Spatial Design Literacy
We evidently lack a ‘language’ with which to reason about, ‘read’ and ‘write’ wholesome urban form.
The Nature of Learning
“…marvelous child they could have: "With your brains and my looks..." He retorted, "But what if the child had my looks and your brains?"”
Beauty Of Mathematics
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere…”
Diamond Ring
Design, 3D modelling and rendering of an engagement ring.
Watch
A quick 3D modelling and rendering exercise.
Earnest Frolic
“A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.”
Viking Game Characters
Design and modelling of staunch Viking characters for a low-poly game prototype.
The Music is not in the Piano
Alan Kay explains why the computing revolution hasn't happened yet.
Knowledge Machines
“…in the future, it will adapt media to serve the needs and tastes of each individual mind.”
The Ecstasy of Curiosity
“to create media, to create content, to create spaces that allow us to stay curious, to stay alive, to awaken…”
The Whole
“It seems like you've considered everything, Atrus. You've tried to see the Whole.” “The Whole?”
Interdependence
Balance, a stop-motion animated film, directed and produced by twin brothers Wolfgang and Christoph Lauenstein.
Thinking like a Mountain
“A deep chesty bawl echoes from rimrock to rimrock, rolls down the mountain, and fades into the far blackness of the night.”
How Wolves change Rivers
When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone after being absent nearly 70 years, the most remarkable trophic cascade occurred.
The Quality Without A Name
“There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in man, a town, a building, or a wilderness...”
Permaculture Design
A permaculture design for the development of a property in the town of East London, South Africa.
Thinking the Unthinkable
“…likewise, thinking tools adapt unthinkable thoughts to our human minds.”
Inventing on Principle
“Social activists typically fight by organizing but you can fight by inventing.”
