RalphBorland.net
PhD
 

My thesis open at a diagram describing the 'local' and 'removed' workings of the PlayPump

This year I completed my PhD (2006 - 2011) at Trinity College, Dublin, with my thesis 'Radical Plumbers and PlayPumps - Objects in development'. I'm building a site at the moment to present my (continuing) research - in the meantime, you can download a copy of my thesis: objectsindevelopment.pdf.

Thanks to the National Research Foundation of South Africa (NRF) and the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust for funding my research, and to my supervisor Linda Doyle for all her help.

You can also read a script or watch the video of a presentation I did last year around some of the ideas in my PhD, for the conference PSi16 - Performing Publics, titled 'The PlayPump - Mechanics of a Static Technology'.