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August 2024
The wind has been a lot this week.
I enjoyed ‘Praiseworthy’ and when I first got the audio, I wasn’t sure I would get through the length. It was worth it. I listen when I go to bed so I listened to this book twice, feeling like I had missed bits. I intend to reread.
“We have no problem recognising the benefits of physical exercise, Wright observed. Isn’t mental exercise just as important? We are an affluent country with a good education system; there is no reason why readers shouldn’t be able to come to grips with a work of literature written, as she put it, “at scale”.”
James Ley Deputy Books + Ideas Editor
(from The Conversation, Books + Ideas Newsletter)
I love this blog. The two blogs Euan Semple referred to, sent me into hours of reading. This post is relatable to me.
This thought-provoking article has me wondering about how to make a change in the way I see the lives of young people. I have had a real shift in my ideas about using technology at school.
“His focus on smartphones has been widely reported. But his equally important emphasis on the cultural preoccupation with protecting us from harm has received less attention.”
Making space
Since I’ve come back from my summer break, I’ve been working with Youth Space Latrobe who are on an important mission to co-design a new space for young people in Latrobe Valley. If you know a young person who has great ideas and would like to participate – please share this with them. It’s a huge opportunity and responsibility.
I had the opportunity to share our process of making The VRI space with them.
It was satisfying to remember and talk about the important background work we did with Rosalea Monacella, Craig Douglas, the amazing team from ReActivate Latrobe Valley and our community. I speak to Rose very often since they’ve moved overseas, but still miss having her around. We did so much together- winter and spring festivals, #getsunflowered, 50 Mile Farmers market and especially for me The VRI. We met with countless community groups, businesses and stakeholders.
It’s good to reflect. I’m so busy moving on to the next project or program that I don’t look back on all that’s been done.
I showed the clip that was produced after our consultation.
I found our initial design concept presentation for The VRI which we were calling LV Community Shed or VRI Hall at the time, before we got our branding from The View From Here. It’s tattered from sharing (as shown in photo). So many conversations and meetings around that big pile of paper.
Further reading:
http://blog.outr.org/2013/11/reactivate-latrobe-valley-workshop.html
http://blog.outr.org/2014/04/the-vri-creative-community-space.html
http://blog.outr.org/2014/07/vri-hall-lidar-and-photogrammetry.html
http://blog.outr.org/2014/07/vri-hall-vr-exterior-photogrammetry.html
http://blog.outr.org/2014/07/vri-hallvr-interior-photogrammetry-model.html
http://blog.outr.org/2014/07/vri-hall-vr-lidar-model.html
http://blog.outr.org/2014/09/reactivate-latrobe-valley-vri-working.html
*A lot of this info was on my old blog that disappeared during a server crash where I was hosting it. It’s still on the Internet archives but I don’t know how to get it back. If you know please tell me.
– http://web.archive.org/web/20150228071420/https://johblogs.com/