Location: Casa Latina
Time: 5-630
Date: 3/4/2015
Casa Latina was very quiet today. Two older girls and two infants. Stephanie
helped me with the kids. Since we had to leave early we didn’t bring any
crafts, only the ipads which were almost dead. I have been a little hectic this
quarter, and did not plan very well ahead. Again, planning. How many times do I
need to learn this? Since I have very
little experience with children, it’s important, because I don’t have a “bag of
tricks” to fall back on yet. Still, kids are very good at entertaining
themselves and they found amusement in the bag of jelly beans that Ivette
brought- doing blind tastings, trying to trick each other into not being able
to guess the flavors in various combinations.
Ivette, Stephanie and I left early to be able to attend a
lecture by Anne Balsamo on campus, one of the founders of FemTechNet.
FemTechNet’s manifesto is at the core of our mission as Ivette laid it
out(rewrite this sentence). The lecture was quite interesting, but not what I
had thought it would be. The title of her newest book, “Designing Culture” to
me, as an anthropology student seemed as if this would be theoretical and
broader- a discussion on social construction through the ways we design
informational technology perhaps. And I haven’t read the book, so maybe it is
about that. But the lecture was about a project to digitally archive the AIDS
memorial quilt- which is interesting in itself.
There is the idea of resisting the silencing of historical
narratives, queer history and the still active creation of the quilt.
She talked about technological obsolence and the quickly
shifting paradigms- how long will our informational technologies be useful as
holders of history, artifacts, words, ideas and knowledge?
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