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Title: Software Imaginations
Proposer: Charles Tolman
Type: Presentation + Discussion
Duration: 90 mins
Description:
Following on from my talk at ACCU last year on Phenomenology and
Software Development, I shall give an initial 30-45 minute talk
exploring some existing philosophical ideas about imagination,
followed by a “goldfish bowl” style discussion format for participants
to share how this relates to their inner experiences of designing and
debugging software systems.
The talk will not be a presentation by someone with all the answers -
it is there to foster a co-exploration of the role that imagination
has to play in software development.
The idea for this session has been based upon my observation that in
the workplace there has been an unprecedented transition from physical
work to internal, knowledge-based, work and in the case of
programmers, dealing with non-physical constructs.
Yet just how aware are we of this fact? How do we see the development
of the skills in dealing with this inner world's dynamic?
I am hoping that this session will give pointers to how we can improve
the way we communicate about our inner processes in a way that makes
sense for the outer work we produce.
In the talk I will gather insights from the likes of Kant, Goethe,
Henri Bortoft and Christopher Alexander. I welcome those who have the
courage to literally take their hearts into their hands and dive into
this inner world from a practitioner's viewpoint.
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