UID20 Virtual exhibition
My work is published in the digital exhibition of UID20. http://uid.umu.se/en/uid20/project-gallery/ixd/geert-roumen/
Experiments and explorations
During the project, I did experiments to imagine different ways we can think about what code is; how it looks like and how we relate to it. In this short video, I explain how programming is boxed into a tool for efficiency; which if we see programming as an art is limiting. Let’s compare programming …. Read More
Final presentation
This is the final presentation, in this presentation I explain the final concept; with argumentation on why and how this final concept took shape…
Midterm presentation
Last Wednesday I presented the midterm presentation to other students and mentors at Umeå Institute of Design.
Research presentation
During the last weeks, I’ve been talking to experts, teachers, students and observing different classrooms that use Arduino as part of their curriculum. I’ve been visiting an artist that uses dance to create websites. Besides that, I’ve been reading about programming curriculums, education models and different methods of understanding By visiting schools, I became much …. Read More
Thesis kickoff presentation
On Monday the 20th of January we shared our brief in the form of a presentation to the other students and staff in Umeå.
Thesis brief
In this project, I will explore how learning in open-source communities can be improved. For this I will do user-research (ethnography) within the context of schools (focussed on 12-16-year-old students), FabLabs (fabrication libraries) and online communities, to see how practices are today; this research will lead to an overview of the current practices with highlighted …. Read More