Difference between revisions of "Michael's Projects"
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| − | + | Below is a brief description of some of the projects I've been working on - or would like to work on. | |
For more information on each project, click on the title of the corresponding section to go to a longer article. If the title is a [[red link]] this means that a separate individual article remains to be written. Some of the linked-to articles contain little more than what is indicated below, and will be expanded later when I find time. In other cases I should instead shorten the summary given below. | For more information on each project, click on the title of the corresponding section to go to a longer article. If the title is a [[red link]] this means that a separate individual article remains to be written. Some of the linked-to articles contain little more than what is indicated below, and will be expanded later when I find time. In other cases I should instead shorten the summary given below. | ||
==[[Convivial Tools]]== | ==[[Convivial Tools]]== | ||
| − | + | My [http://conviviality.ouvaton.org Convivial Tools] website promotes the ideas of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Illich Ivan Illich] about what he called [[Convivial Tools]]. The underlying theme of all of Illich's work is how to give back to the average citizen some part of the control over knowledge and technology which is typically exercized by specialized elites. | |
I originally wanted to apply Illich's ideas to the design of household appliances in order to tranform them into [[Reparable Tools]]. More broadly, I wanted to explore the extent to which idea systems and social systems can be considered "tools," and how they could be made more "convivial" in Illich's sense. However, my projects in the field of Convivial Tools got bogged down in the task of writing detailed content for the websites that I created on the subject. | I originally wanted to apply Illich's ideas to the design of household appliances in order to tranform them into [[Reparable Tools]]. More broadly, I wanted to explore the extent to which idea systems and social systems can be considered "tools," and how they could be made more "convivial" in Illich's sense. However, my projects in the field of Convivial Tools got bogged down in the task of writing detailed content for the websites that I created on the subject. | ||
