Bianca Aguilar
@biancamikaila
designer, educator, writer, learner
bianca.digitalBianca Aguilar
Networking Peripheries: Technological Futures and the Myth of Digital Universalism
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anthropology and
“There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is too heavy. And sometimes the mountain top is difficult to reach with all our resources, factual and confessional, so we are just there, collectively grasping, feeling the limitations of knowledge, longing together,... See more
bell hooks • Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Fr…
Significant Misconceptions #1 Africans were illiterate before colonization #2 Africa lacked civilization before European contact
Henri Lotin • Big Picture: The State of Web Design in Africa
The Cute Factor
Ahhhhh, the “cute” factor. Japan is a gentle, nonviolent country and that core cultural thread is sewn throughout eCommerce and mobile communication.
Rich Mirocco • Big in Japan: Web Design in the Land of the Rising Sun
There needs to be a mindful approach in treating languages. In addition to translating word by word, there is a need to understand the local nuance of the words in a specific context.
Project Lima • Inclusive design in Southeast Asia
We should be chefs when it comes to career-path-carving (a.k.a. reason from first principles). This is because of the following: (1) it takes up a significant chunk of our lives, (2) it plays a big role in determining the quality of our lives, (3) it serves as our primary mode of impact-making, and (4) it also serves as our primary identity.
A chef... See more
A chef... See more
Tim Urban • How to Pick a Career
PODCAST | ML198: Creativity, Genius and The Gift & Market Economies
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