ThisIsColossal shared this beautiful game by Oskar Stålberg which immediately reminded me of my urban metabolism game (I mention it here).
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Outlining the steps to work towards an Eden Project in the Western Cape.
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IN DRAFT
This talk was given at the South African Geography Teachers Conference (SAGTA) in Pretoria on 21 June 2019. The talk was well received and I found useful resources related to GIS. I hope to pilot a version of the game, or at least the data gathering and interpretation in a school project which would help update the geography curriculum too.
The presentation is in html and can be found here (link to follow) or downloaded in pdf here (link to follow).
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As soon as my talk appointments solidified I froze up with writer’s block, and the, to me, massive challenge of learning all the stuff just to tell the story of what I want to do, nevermind doing it! For a start, I would like to give the talk in Javascript to make it interactive and allow better transfer between platforms (I think … html and all that??), which is enough of a challenge already. So, to help myself unclog, a dump of the rough notes I’ve been accumulating. This post will probably change often, but stay messy, and each talk will get its own dedicated post as the focus will be unique for each.
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The Fortnite, Water and the Metaverse post was barely cold when a friend sent me this article about Magic Leap, under the leadership of Rony Abovitz, and their Magicverse.
From the Magic Leap blog: “The Magicverse is an Emergent System of Systems bridging the physical with the digital, in a large scale, persistent manner within a community of people. “
“Essentially, Magic Leap envisions a future in which any location — ranging from a room to a whole country — has not only a physical presence, but also a digital one that takes the form of various layers. One layer might focus on health and wellness, for example, and another on entertainment, and still another on mobility.”
Water and the Metaverse
Or maybe, ‘the Metaverse and all that shit.’ Anyways, this post is about my plans for 2019:
- Augmented reality game, think Fortnite (actually more ‘Metaverse’) meets water research (Actually, waste management). Or, visualising big data for everyday people.
- Faecal fungi
- Dream Zandvlei
Workshop: Distributed business models for the bioeconomy
Focus: dealing with biomass that may be or have potential to become hazardous
Case study: 1) container based sanitation (CBS) and 2) urine beneficiation, catering to the sanitation service delivery to higher LSM markets in South Africa.
Continue reading “Workshop: Distributed business models for the bioeconomy”Bio-economy, Green Economy and the Circular Economy – same same?
It’s confusing, isn’t it? They are mostly political terms, so the exact definitions are probably non-existent, but let’s settle for vague. I do think they’re different and important to distinguish, so here’s my stab at explaining what the differences are between bio-, green and the circular economy, and then I throw in water sensitive design as a bonus. Oh, and distributed. That’s what all of these have in common. This is just my opinion, of course.
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Stockholm World Water Week 26 – 31 August 2018
Notes and highlights from the Stockholm World Water Week (#WWWeek on Twitter) – in draft
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Future for sanitation in cities? Presentation at Dry toilet conference, Finland
My presentation at the Dry Toilet conference in Tampere, Finland on 24 August 2018. Other notes on the conference are collected on the huussi post.
Toilets in #dayZero: The surge in popularity of dry toilets in Cape Town’s water crisis
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