Robert O'TooleThis is the research blog of Robert O'Toole of the University of Warwick. It documents work on learning space, learning design, learning technology, e-learning, cognitive science, aesthetics, performance and pedagogy.https://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/inspireslearning/?atom=atomWarwick Blogs, University of Warwick(C) 2024 Robert O'Toole2024-03-28T10:00:54ZNew Warwick interdisciplinarity hub for students by Robert O'TooleRobert O'Toolehttps://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/inspireslearning/entry/new_warwick_interdisciplinarity/2019-06-26T09:48:37Z2019-06-26T09:48:37Z<p class="answer">Writing about web page <a href="https://warwick.ac.uk/students/opportunities/interdisciplinarity/" title="Related external link: https://warwick.ac.uk/students/opportunities/interdisciplinarity/">https://warwick.ac.uk/students/opportunities/interdisciplinarity/</a></p>
<p>We've got lots of interdisciplinarity opportunities for students at Warwick. This is so important for their ability to cope with and succeed in the modern world. Bo Kelestyn and the WIHEA Interdisciplinarity group have created a brilliant new web site that tells students every thing they need to know.</p>
<p><a href="https://warwick.ac.uk/students/opportunities/interdisciplinarity/">Warwick Interdisciplinarity Hub</a></p><p class="answer">Writing about web page <a href="https://warwick.ac.uk/students/opportunities/interdisciplinarity/" title="Related external link: https://warwick.ac.uk/students/opportunities/interdisciplinarity/">https://warwick.ac.uk/students/opportunities/interdisciplinarity/</a></p>
<p>We've got lots of interdisciplinarity opportunities for students at Warwick. This is so important for their ability to cope with and succeed in the modern world. Bo Kelestyn and the WIHEA Interdisciplinarity group have created a brilliant new web site that tells students every thing they need to know.</p>
<p><a href="https://warwick.ac.uk/students/opportunities/interdisciplinarity/">Warwick Interdisciplinarity Hub</a></p>0This blog has moved to http://www.inspireslearning.com by Robert O'TooleRobert O'Toolehttps://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/inspireslearning/entry/this_blog_has/2012-12-02T13:42:01Z2012-12-02T13:42:01Z<p>From December 2012 I will be writing about my PhD at <a href="http://www.inspireslearning.com">http://www.inspireslearning.com</a></p><p>From December 2012 I will be writing about my PhD at <a href="http://www.inspireslearning.com">http://www.inspireslearning.com</a></p>0Interview topic 1: manufacturing, art, design by Robert O'TooleRobert O'Toolehttps://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/inspireslearning/entry/interview_question_1/2012-08-22T13:17:38Z2012-08-21T09:36:49Z<p>The production of objects and events takes three forms (which may be more or less mixed up in reality): manufacturing, art, and design.</p>
<p>Manufacturing: sometimes we produce new instances of a familiar pattern or template - manufacturing, either on a craft-workshop basis or on an industrial scale, subject to incremental optimisation but essentially standardised.</p>
<p>Art: other times we produce something that is unique and that "breaks the mould" - artistic creativity being distinguished by some irreducible difference, by a challenge to conventional sense, non-standard and unique to the artwork.</p>
<p>Design: finally, we might produce a new pattern, breaking the mould and creating a new mould - design seeks the best of both worlds, offering something distinctive and new, but also feasible, scalable, durable, usable, accessible, valuable. Design is a compromise between the prevailing conditions and a new future, arrived at by observation, inspiration, experimentation and negotiation (between affordances, constraints, time, money, attention etc).</p>
<p>How do you relate to these three activities?</p><p>The production of objects and events takes three forms (which may be more or less mixed up in reality): manufacturing, art, and design.</p>
<p>Manufacturing: sometimes we produce new instances of a familiar pattern or template - manufacturing, either on a craft-workshop basis or on an industrial scale, subject to incremental optimisation but essentially standardised.</p>
<p>Art: other times we produce something that is unique and that "breaks the mould" - artistic creativity being distinguished by some irreducible difference, by a challenge to conventional sense, non-standard and unique to the artwork.</p>
<p>Design: finally, we might produce a new pattern, breaking the mould and creating a new mould - design seeks the best of both worlds, offering something distinctive and new, but also feasible, scalable, durable, usable, accessible, valuable. Design is a compromise between the prevailing conditions and a new future, arrived at by observation, inspiration, experimentation and negotiation (between affordances, constraints, time, money, attention etc).</p>
<p>How do you relate to these three activities?</p>0