Prehension
Transmission in Motion – Nathalie Sinclair, “Multiplication as Experience”
In this presentation, Nathalie Sinclair will introduce a new multi-touch app called TouchTimes, which aims to put multiplication in motion, primarily through gesture-based interactions. Instead of demanding that children memorise multiplication facts, or resorting to a sequential logic of repeated addition, TouchTimes mobilises simultaneity, hapticity and relationality. Using Whitehead’s concept of prehension, Sinclair shows how…
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