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What is openwashing - and how can you avoid it?
Digital & Computing

What is openwashing - and how can you avoid it?

...architecture, distribution and integration where, "based on open source," "built on open source," and "supports open source" are common, and the challenges only grow for the uninitiated. The cruel reality is, the ultimate responsibility is on the end-users to review the software and accompanying license to ensure it meets your expectations. Adopter beware. Fortunately,...
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Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design
Science, Maths & Technology

Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design

...architecture,” “open-source university,” “open-source democracy” and so on. [A convention held in a stadium] You can elect a presidential candidate with a massive committee - why can't a smaller group design a user interface? The Challenges Scratching an itch By going open-source, coders are fulfilling a need to change software, to make it their own. They might...
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Design thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Design thinking

...architecture (what we can think of as design). A few painted lines on a piece of tarmac mean that we all park in a certain orientation, because the architecture 'tells' us to. Activity 6 Design and behaviour Taking the activity of driving in a car, provide an example for each of the four ways listed above that regulate our behaviour. Discussion Law: By law we have to...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...architecture. The final part, ‘Modernity to globalisation’, explores the period since 1850, showing how art has diversified into a wide range of forms and media. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A226 Exploring art and visual culture...Art and visual culture: Medieval to modern: Learning outcomes - After studying this course,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
A brief history of the ever-changing definition of culture
Health, Sports & Psychology

A brief history of the ever-changing definition of culture

...architecture, monuments or even the food within a culture as it reminds them of a shared history. Once again, recent reports of the anger around statues has shown how protective people are of their history and in wanting to remove reminders of the difficult and dark parts of that history. What is our next move? [colourful chess pieces] There has always been a tension...
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Article 15 mins
Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction

...challenges across the next 20 years. But also honest to the fact that actually climate change particularly is probably driving more innovation across more sectors (architecture, fashion, design, engineering) than any single thing in the last 60 years with perhaps the exception of the internet. So optimism, pessimism, I hold them probably pretty evenly in each hand....
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Life on the wall: Vindolanda
History & The Arts

Life on the wall: Vindolanda

...architecture of both military and civilian buildings emphasises the impact of the Roman army on the traditional native structures, and the evidence for the extensive mining of iron, lead and coal reminds us that the local area experienced an industrial revolution when the army took control. All this evidence has put flesh on the bare bones of that 300 and more years of...
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Article 10 mins
Solving the perplexing mathematicians' problem of the spectre
Science, Maths & Technology

Solving the perplexing mathematicians' problem of the spectre

...architecture, including the floor of the department of mathematics at Oxford University and at San Francisco’s transit centre. Aperiodic tiles are also used in the study of material with naturally aperiodic structure, known as quasicrystals. Quasicrystals have unique material properties and applications are being investigated. But since the discovery of Penrose’s two...
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