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From the forested mountains to the low lands of the Netherlands, I’m creating and nurturing new ideas about how technologies shape your life and mine.
I want to work more on responsible technology design, help people to grasp data in a new way and remind people that the technologies around them help actively shape their world in novel ways.
Slowly developing as a researcher through new communities, thoughtful conversations and trudging through difficult topics one day at a time.
Working Projects
Technology Articles
For me, human-technology relations are some of the most interesting relationships to investigate.
My research and writing always tries to capture a wider range readers, pursuing accessible, relatable philosophical content.
I post to Medium.com and archive the articles on this site.
Stepping Into Research Traditions
A discussion and summary of how Laudan’s approach identifies barefoot research as a pragmatic theory, as well as a discussion on the choice researchers make with barefoot walking research.
Adventurous Collaborations: EdTech models from experimentation to application
Image: Various Educational Technologies at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp, 2021 A new report has been published in the Versnellingsplan developed through case studies and interviews by yours truly. Find it here in English and Dutch. Here in the Netherlands, there is a lot of energy being put into educational technologies. Procurement, creation, budgeting and of course, innovating the…
Your Screen Time Matters
Sedentary behavior, screens and their negative impacts are increasingly ignored. The remedies to these habits won’t come easily. Sedentary Behavior & Your Device When I used to work for an after-school daycare, I would watch television on my laptop with the kids to help stall some of the screaming and crying that was so trendy…
JFW
I came to The Netherlands chasing a dream to do more with philosophy. Specifically, I wanted to explore more of the Philosophy of Technology; a small, niche branch in philosophy that inspired me earlier in my bachelors and was quite possibly the only reason I stayed in college. Philosophy of technology is arguably one of the most impactful branches of philosophy, but has a long way to go to be recognized for it.
One cannot plan on moving to a new country during a global pandemic. Faced with the option to head back to the states or stay in The Netherlands and continue my academic (and possibly future) career, I chose the latter.
After graduating from my masters at the University of Twente in a Philosophy of Technology masters program, I have since moved in and out of various research work. Much of it is ‘applied’ work in reporting what is already there or adding content to the conversation that is already being had.
I want to do more. I want to build new ideas, work with what is there, but reframe both issue and output. Looking forward, I plan on launching a much more serious and experimental way of researching technologies. It will, of course, take seriously the role of whatever technology in whatever practice or community the context holds.
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John Ford Walker 