Tag Archive: Flickr


In week 3 of the E-Learning & Digital Cultures MOOC . students have been invited to create an image that represents any one of the themes encountered in the course so far.

This is another photo of street art from my Flickr back pages that I have chosen.

It was taken in San Francisco and it makes me think of time travellers returning to the Garden of Eden (wherever that is!). The fact that the couple has not been coloured in adds to the sense of their disconnection from the natural surroundings.

It makes me think how technology separates human beings from our surroundings so that we feel we are aliens trying to come to terms with where we are and how we are supposed to interact with the world around us.

EDCMOOC WEEK 3 IMAGE ACTIVITY

In week 3 of the E-Learning & Digital Cultures MOOC .  students have been invited to create an image that represents any one of the themes encountered in the course so far.

I’m not entirely sure if cropping my Flickr photos counts as being sufficiently creative but I’ve been going through my past shots of graffiti and street art looking picture that fit this category.

My favourite is this one I took in a side street in Ravenna, Italy which I think serves to counter balance the dystopian notion that machines are taking over our world.

if robots are invested with human characteristics, perhaps they can feel lonely too.

This yellow bot certainly looks isolated and in need of love.

Perhaps the true fear we should address is not  that machines are becoming too powerful but that human beings are too distrustful of the idea that technology can be a force for good.