Besel & Mo

Earlier this summer, I built a chair and a table in Inge Qunhua’s class. Inge is a first-class, award-winning Danish designer of learning objects and virtual environments who also helps us with getting the virtual HWR off the ground. And here is what I’d like to do: I’d like to write regularly about what happens to me in Second Life®. And you know, if nothing much happens, then that’s worth reflecting on, too.

This is my “solution” for Tobias Würtz’ challenge: let whatever happens, happen, but not just. In our institutions of higher learning, in our offices and in our living rooms, we put way too much emphasis on control. Let’s put more emphasis on seeing and listening instead. That’s what I’ve built my chair (a so-called “sculpted prim”) for: to sit back, observe more closely and pay more attention without acting too soon too fast.

(The TV is not part of the solution. It’s part of the problem.)

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