SWISP Lab was hosted by Jantina Tammes School of Digital Society, Technology and AI (Joelle Swart RUG) for this hack, which took place at the aptly named ‘House of Connections’, Groningen, Netherlands on 5 & 6th September, 2024. The Jantina Tammes School is the University of Groningen’s interdisciplinary centre dedicated to digital society, technology and […]
A SWISP Lab WIL Project By: Isabella Lombardo Being largely inspired by SWISP Lab’s Hak.io gameplay, their allusion to virtual game worlds as a place for speculation on their Unimelb site, and the immortal pop cultural behemoth that is the Pokémon franchise—I decided to build my own themed narrative “mod” of SWISP’s gameplay mechanics aimed […]
A SWISP Lab WIL Project By: Cormac Wood Imagine a device that doesn’t just teach students the facts of history, but actively challenges the very foundations of how our historical narratives are taught in schools. A device that allows students to travel and weave throughout the timelines of the past and be an active participant […]
A SWISP Lab WIL Project By: Keith Aloysious Soertsz My first steps into the inner workings of SWISP Lab were fraught with anxious uncertainty. Speculative wonderings were a new concept for me as I see myself as a pragmatist built on logic and realism. It was only after an illuminating discussion with Dr. Sarah Healy, […]
Deeply inspired by the transformative power of SWISP Lab hackathons as a chance to work on big complex problems and by the potential of personal storytelling as a way for us to be present to each other (Adams et al, 2014, p.5), Peiyi and Yi embarked on a mini-hack adventure at the University of Melbourne. […]
More Than Just Sustainability – let’s hack the Anthropocene to find the #climate stories between #art and #science! SWISP Lab is facilitating 2 #hackathons for young people (aged 14-28 years old) in partnership with Science Gallery Melbourne in National Science Week. Hack #1 is on August 10 and hack #2 is on August 17. Are you aged 14-28 years old? Register for […]
Over the last two weeks SWISP Lab have had three excellent teacher candidates from the Faculty of Education in radical residency for their WIL Capstone projects. What is WIL you ask? Work Integrated Learning (WIL) is an umbrella term used to describe a variety of learning experiences which integrate academic theory with authentic real-world work experiences. […]
A few months ago SWISP lab facilitated Mediator Hacks in partnership with Science Gallery Mediators in Melbourne and Atlanta making it number three (Bengaluru, Atlanta, Melbourne) across the Science Gallery International network. See Hacking the Anthropocene: cross-network research and pedagogy for climate action for more information. Science Gallery Atlanta Mediator Hack co-design workshop, 2024 So […]
“In a world of uncertainty where school was so bland, where subjects were so bleak, where students were so bored” (FoL co-designer, 2023), we introduce the Futures of Learning Research Exhibition and launch the Futures of Learning Speculative Co-Design Toolkit, created by young people and teachers for young people and teachers in partnership with SWISP […]
SWISP Lab and Science Gallery Bengaluru (SGB) in partnership with the University of Melbourne facilitated two workshops at Infosys Science Foundation to hack living in Anthropocene. We invited young people aged 15-28 years old to join us at the intersection of creative and scientific inquiry and explore the ways that we become scicurious together in […]
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