Despite the evocative tagline, the sweat shop The Wiz (1978) villain Evillene runs below the streets of New York City seems more conventional than not. It seems that the laborers are working on *some* sort of apparel apparatus, but the sewing machines melt along with their mistress.
It was my pleasure this month to visit the Portuguese island of Madeira and organize an intensive workshop for HCI, Design, and Computer Science MS and PhD students at M-ITI interested in exploring topics in—and developing interventions for—supply studies. Now that we’ve wrapped up, I thought I would put some of the summary information here for future reference. Partly to remind myself that I’d like to post a more detailed version of my notes and reading list at some point in the near future, and partly because I’d love to hear about similar efforts around syllabi that address logistics, supply chains, and globalization.
As we’ve already suggested, Jurassic World has the potential to truly revel in the kind of functioning park we were never really able to see in the original film. The recent release of marketing material for the forthcoming blockbuster spares no expense, offering exactly the kind of publicity we would expect for any world-class contemporary zoo.
