Re: [Pharo-users] [GT] moldable tools for non-developers

[Sebastian Heidbrink via Pharo-users]

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Hi Offray!

that is kind of what I am looking for. Would you mind if I contacted you directly? I am in the process of formulizing a master thesis and would love to bring Pharo into the mix.

Is you phd thesis public?

I tried to explore software ecosystems in the context of methiation theory by Peter-Paul Verbeek, but I was not able to design an applied mater thesis based on such philosopical theory. This is why the modeling of ecosystems services is a new broad scope that I will have to narrow down during the next quater.

Sebastian

Am 27.10.2017 um 11:01 schrieb Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas:

Hi,


On 27/10/17 10:48, Sebastian Heidbrink via Pharo-users wrote:

While the ambitions behind GT seem to be developer centric, I wonder
if there is also research or development done to support non-developer
pharo users.

Yes. We're trying to bridge the gap between developers and
non-developers (like myself) using moldable environments like Pharo. Our
use case is data activism, visualization and storytelling. So our
intended users are people coming from any of such fields that don't
develop app, but try to tell factual stories supported by data and/or
visualizations. For that I have developed the Grafoscopio[1] tool and
the Data Week workshop+hackathon [2], were we approach the gap between
devs and other users from the point of critical data & software literacy
(pretty far away from the "Hello World" introduction to programming[3]).

[1] http://mutabit.com/grafoscopio/index.en.html
[2] http://mutabit.com/dataweek/
[3] http://mutabit.com/offray/blog/en/entry/dumb-hello-world

Pharo, agile visualization and moldable tools have allowed me to explore
my PhD question about "How we can change the digital tools that change
us?" from this critical approach to data/tech, tools and literacy
for/from activism.

Cheers,

Offray

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