Research & education

Taking the pattern work into a classroom: indigenous design, algorithmic design and digital fabrication, for high-school students in São Paulo.

We collaborated with Colégio Magno in São Paulo to connect indigenous patterns, algorithmic design and digital fabrication for high-schoolers.

The project was presented at FabLearn Global 2020 as part of the educators’ panel “Making across cultures”, and again at FabLearn Asia 2020.

This is the part of the collaboration that follows the ethnocomputing argument all the way to where it is meant to land. A pedagogy built on the algorithmic properties of cultural patterns gives a student a way into programming that begins with something they already recognise, and it works in both directions, in a São Paulo classroom and in a village on the Envira.