Posts tagged auckland
Oh, learning, why you so hard?

When you’re designing new technology, or new ways to use existing technology, I don’t know how many creative technologists’ relationships with friends and family start changing as they grow into more awareness. I wonder how many “agree to disagree” moments lie in my future. I find myself bracing for the way it may ultimately shift some of my closest relationships. And on some days I wish I’d stayed away from a thesis that had anything to do with cultural heritage.

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Frappé or Niu? Reconciling multicultural origins in Samoan Language Week

As we come to the end of 2015’s Samoan Language Week (O le Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa) in New Zealand, I have to acknowledge a shadow that’s been dogging me all week.

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