Author Archives: Andy Polaine

In 1995, I co-founded the award-winning new-media agency antirom in London. I also spent a spell as a senior producer at Razorfish in London.

Tired of the London life, I visited Australia in 1999 to travel, lecture and get a tan. Charmed by the lifestyle, I moved to Sydney and started the interactive department of visual effects company, Animal Logic.

Since 2001 I have been a Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media at UNSW’s College of Fine Arts as well as working as a freelance designer and writer. I write a regular column called Foreign Policy for Desktop magazine and occasionally for other publications and my own blog, Playpen. I also lecture, speak and have performed in various countries around the world. I am also working on my PhD at UTS with the title “Developing a language of interactivity through the theory of play” as well as writing a novel.

As if all that wasn’t enough work, I just finished a Guest Professorship here in Germany at the Bauhaus University in Weimar.

Social Learning Masterclass

A couple of weeks ago I was one of two people conducting a Social Learning Masterclass at Northumbria University thanks to an invite from Stephen Farrier from the e-Learning Innovations Enhancement Group.

I presented a large part of what we do at Omnium and also COFA Online taking a look at several projects, particularly Creative Waves […]

Published by Andy Polaine on the 18th of December, 2007 in Learning & Teaching, Presentations 2 Comments

The Changing Nature of Information

Just on the way back from the Icograda conference in Cuba - we’ll post a PDF and paper of our presentation soon. There were several questions from the audience about the changing nature of culture and “how can we define it/fit it into our curricula?”. This seems to me to be the wrong way of […]

Published by Andy Polaine on the 24th of October, 2007 in Uncategorised 0 Comments

Upcoming Presentations in Havana and Northumbria

Rick and I will be presenting at the the Icograda World Design Congress in Havana, Cuba on the 21st October. If anyone is going to be there, drop us a line as it would be nice to see some familiar faces (or e-mail addresses).

Then on November 16th I’ll be giving a Social Learning Masterclass at […]

Published by Andy Polaine on the 10th of October, 2007 in Presentations 0 Comments

Everything is Miscellaneous

Good post over at Creative Generalist reviewing David Weinberger’s new book Everything is Miscellaneous. The main thrust appears to be about how the internet and computers have radically changed the way we seek, use and organise information and how most of existing monolithic structures (read: education) are bound by the fact that most paper-based information […]

Published by Andy Polaine on the 2nd of October, 2007 in Uncategorised 0 Comments

An eBay of eLearning?

I just noticed TalkBean on the Museum of Modern Betas. It’s basically a marketplace for tutors and students - the idea being that the two match up and the student pays for some online tutoring.It’s a shame that it’s webcam and headset as a set-up, because that really limits the type and style of tutoring […]

Published by Andy Polaine on the 6th of September, 2007 in Learning & Teaching 0 Comments