• Practice
    • Failing to compute
    • Making with potatoes
    • Potato computer research lab
    • Oddkin computing pedagogies
  • Becoming research
  • POT-ART
  • Practice
    • Failing to compute
    • Making with potatoes
    • Potato computer research lab
    • Oddkin computing pedagogies
  • Becoming research
  • POT-ART
Potato Computer Club
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More potatoes in the classroom

Another session with potato printing patterns

Making Christmas cards with high school students, first making potatoes potato prints on paper, and then producing these prints with code.

Session plan:

INTRO
what we are going to do
background
how i got into using code
what kinds of projects you can do

PROCESSING
what is it?
why I like it + what I’ve made with it
what you can do with it (examples)

WEB EDITOR
how it works

brief tour of web editor
– log in
– change background
– add shape
– change colour of shape

ACTIVITY 1 hour

holiday cards inspiration
potato printing design (can add more colours in processing)
pair programming – what is this?
more shapes / text
how to share

END by looking at everyone’s work

Potatoes in the classroom
You Make the Rules

Potato Computer Club centres failure and playfulness, exploring feminist computing pedagogical practice. The work started as research into how to add texture to how we relate to computers. As pedagogical apparatus, potatoes bring many modes of being and thinking into spaces of computing through their stupidity, questioning of computing mastery, the activation of collective storytelling, and forgetting of traditional ways of doing computing. The qualities that the materiality of potato bring reframes how we feel about computing. Potatoes butt up against computation in such a way as to embed it with other values in a way that offers stories, creativity and imaginative responses. Almost everyone has a potato story and spuds have a wondering way of connecting people, and making the seemingly complex or hardness of talking about computation disappear.

Please email hello@beccarose.co.uk for more info

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