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Bricolab

The person

I live in Tokyo and online, collect questionable qualifications and advertising tissues and have worked as a toilet cleaner, university lecturer, bookseller, teacher, gardener and in a host of other wonder professions.

Previous research has engaged with Matt Hills' and Henry Jenkins' work on participatory culture, fan culture and cult media in a study of the internet Anti-Fan and in the diverse and fascinating adult uses of children's culture.

Current work centres around the use of constructionist, media studies inflected methodologies in teaching english as a second language esl to Japanese students, with cultural and personal identity at the core of our efforts.

I am beginning preparation for a phD/Dphil proposal and hope to commence studies in 2007, upon return to dear old Blighty.

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 participant.
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 like pretty things but don't like spyware
identity Who/me?
applied linguistics Language vigorously applied, as in sun tan lotion
Japaneseおれはおばかです
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 Virtually here
Brickmation Lego+Stop motion= Brickmation
Children's culture and adults uses of 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. Wiki world.
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 - Learning the hands on way
Seymour Papert - MIT Arch-Constructionist (pretty, oversized pic is mine)
Advertising tissues - Tokyo's favourite meme spreader (Version 2- V1 ruthlessly deleted for less than sombre treatment of subject matter)
Brickmation - lego meets stop motion online
Minifigs - Lego's block headed, jaundiced chappies
Minor contributions to stop motion

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 ==The person==
-Lives in [[Tokyo]] and [[online]], collects [[film studies | questionable qualifications]] and [[advertising tissues]] and has worked as a toilet cleaner, university lecturer, bookseller, teacher, gardener and a host of other wonder professions.
+I live in [[Tokyo]] and [[online]], collect questionable qualifications and [[advertising tissues]] and have worked as a toilet cleaner, university lecturer, bookseller, teacher, gardener and in a host of other wonder professions.
+Previous research has engaged with [[Matt Hills]]' and [[Henry Jenkins]]' work on [[participatory culture]], [[fan culture]] and [[cult media]] in a study of the internet [[Anti-Fan]] and in the diverse and fascinating adult uses of [[children's culture]].
+Current work centres around the use of [[constructionist]], [[media studies]] inflected methodologies in teaching english as a second language [[esl]] to Japanese students, with cultural and personal [[identity]] at the core of our efforts.
+I am beginning preparation for a phD/Dphil proposal and hope to commence studies in 2007, upon return to dear old Blighty.
 I am interested in, far from exclusively, and in no particularly order:
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 *[[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.
+*[[Participatory culture]] The audience is dead. Long live the participant.
 *[[open source]] Information wants to be FREE
 *[[Psychogeography]] Meandering through ambience storms in the megopolis