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.

Omnium at the World Design Congress

Rick Bennett and I will be presenting the Creative Waves 2007 VIP project at Icograda’s World Design Congress Education Network Conference in Havana, Cuba on the 20th October.

I’m not sure how many readers of this blog are going to be able to make it there, but if you are going there get in touch and […]

Published by Andy Polaine on the 5th of September, 2007 in Presentations 0 Comments

Creative Collaboration and Educational Futures

I posted a more detailed note of my seminar on Creative Collaboration and The Future of Education at Urban Learning Space over at Playpen. But I felt should make of a note of it here as I was talking all about the work that we’ve been doing at Omnium and the Creative Waves 2007 project.

The […]

Published by Andy Polaine on the 1st of September, 2007 in Learning & Teaching, Presentations 0 Comments

Collaboration and Educational Futures at Urban Learning Space

I just posted this on my personal blog too, but it’s worth repeating here:

I’m going to be giving a seminar called Creative Collaboration and the Future of Education at Urban Learning Space in Glasgow on 30 August 2007, 10am – 12.30pm.

I’ll be presenting the Creative Waves 2007 - Visualising Issues in Pharmacy project in detail, […]

Published by Andy Polaine on the 1st of August, 2007 in Presentations 0 Comments

A search engine for academics

I just a post over at Putting people first about Microsoft’s Live Search for Acadmics. Similar to Google Scholar except that it trawls journal databases instead of the open web for content.

It’s pretty well-designed - simple, basically - and shows why all those university library search engines that use metalib are so useless. The common […]

Published by Andy Polaine on the 26th of July, 2007 in Learning & Teaching 0 Comments

The Silent Revolution and Education

Published by Andy Polaine on the 12th of July, 2007 in Learning & Teaching, Presentations, Readings 0 Comments