User:Bricolab

The person

Lives in Tokyo and online, collects useless qualifications and advertising tissues and has worked as a toilet cleaner, university lecturer, bookseller, teacher, gardener and a host of other wonder professions.

I am interested in, far from exclusively, and in no particularly order:

• media audience research who/we/see/do
• web studies click'click
• constructionist learning Do/think
• The DIY ethic Bodge it, bash it out, pass it on
• Participatory culture The audience is dead. Long live the participator.
• open source information wants to be FREE
• Psychogeography meandering through ambience storms in the megopolis
• situationism Under the paving stones, the beach
• apple computers for people who don't like spyware
• identity who/me?
• applied linguistics vigorously applied, as in sun tan lotion
• Japaneseおはわおばかです
• stop motion click and move
• Umezu Children. Scissors. Ouch.
• Suehiro Maruo Deco monstrosities
• Aya Takano Pop girls in bubble space
• Shunga Naughty comics from ancient Japan
• Ukiyo-e The floating world
• collage cut, paste, comment
• mobile technologies Connect, transform
• Foucault The Kojak of philosophy
• Deleuze Plato, watch yer back
• Brickmation Lego+Stop motion= Brickmation
• Children's culture and what adults do with it
• ludology play theory
• antiessentialism dissolving borders

The project

Bricolab is an amalgamated word. It is even more compacted than the foodstuffs in Elvis's colon. If we explode it, in the manner of a naughty terrorist, or a UN smart bomb, we find the following words come running for cover:

• Bricolage - Grab, slap together, marvel at the new combination.
• Brick - Click, clunk, the lego revolution.
• Collaboration - Open source being. Forging connections. Wikiworld.
• Laboratory - Experimentation in the playground of identity.

As a staunch constructionist I leave the rest to your imagination. For now.

Bricolab is coming to a website near you. Soon.

Contributions to date

Pretty lame at present:

• Constructionist learning
• Seymour Papert
• Advertising tissues