Latest in: Online Autumn '23

In Their Own Words (Connections Lab Final Project)

Note: this is a collab with classmate, homie and general legend Mishka. Being both design-oriented, we split tasks rather than roles, both doing a bit of design and a bit of coding. For Mishka's …
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By nuff
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December 28, 2023
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Project 02: Quiz Game

For Project 02, our brief is to “create a web application that allows a user to send and receive data” using NodeJS, Express and either a database library for storage, Socket.io for real-time multi-person data exchange …
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By nuff
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November 11, 2023

Week Two: GMO Foods, Puppets etc.

Systems Thinking and GMO Foods This week, we're reading Steve Easterbrook's article Systems Thinking and Genetically Modified Food. (As an aside, he appears to be a prof at U of T, so shout out …
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By nuff
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October 7, 2023

Week Four: Metaphors

This week, we're reading Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. The central thesis seems to be that metaphors are more than linguistic or rhetorical tools. Rather, they suggest metaphors are …
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October 5, 2023

Week Three: Transgression

This week, we're reading Chapter 1 of *Unruly Speech* by Saskia Witteborn. Witteborn frames transgression as a way of defining the boundaries of acceptable behaviour. Beyond that, she argues (through those she references) that it is necessary for …
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By nuff
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October 3, 2023

Week One: Emergent Strategy & Research

Our summer intensive is over and a new semester begins. Whereas this summer we had five weeks in-person to do and make everything, we’ll be spending 15 weeks on Zoom, going deep. Here in …
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By nuff
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September 13, 2023