Outputs (6)

The Lions’ Gate Permaculture Garden (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine
Egan, C. (2024). The Lions’ Gate Permaculture Garden

Callum Egan explains how his academic community transformed The Lions’ Gate at Napier University, Edinburgh, into a series of permaculture gardens to create a healthier, nature-focused form of educational workplace

Hasten Slowly: Developing an interactive sustainability storytelling chair (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Egan, C., O'dowd, A., & Fyffe, N. (2020, June). Hasten Slowly: Developing an interactive sustainability storytelling chair. Presented at 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT 4 S 2020 ), Bristol

Responding to the climate crisis and a considerable downturn in planetary well-being due to human consumption patterns, The Lions' Gate, on-campus, urban, permaculture-inspired, interactive community gardens project aims to affect changes in attitude... Read More about Hasten Slowly: Developing an interactive sustainability storytelling chair.

Permaculture as a foundation for sustainable interaction design and UX
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Egan, C., Benyon, D., & Thompson, R. (2017, July). Permaculture as a foundation for sustainable interaction design and UX. Presented at British HCI 2017

The main objective of this work is to gain an understanding of the relationships between UX and permaculture. This will deliver insights as to how digital media development can support the need for people to live and work in more ecologically conscio... Read More about Permaculture as a foundation for sustainable interaction design and UX.

Sustainable HCI: Blending permaculture and user-experience
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benyon, D., & Egan, C. (2017, June). Sustainable HCI: Blending permaculture and user-experience. Presented at DIS: Designing Interactive Systems, Edinburgh

For approximately 10 years the SIGCHI Sustainable HCI (sHCI) and Sustainable Interaction Design (SID) communities have debated the contribution that HCI can make to sustainability. However, there has been little real progress in the field with few, i... Read More about Sustainable HCI: Blending permaculture and user-experience.

The Lions' Gate: Towards a Permaculture-inspired Blended Space
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Egan, C., Thompson, R., & O'Dowd, A. (2019, June). The Lions' Gate: Towards a Permaculture-inspired Blended Space. Presented at Computing Within Limits - ICT4Sustainability, Lappeenranta, Finland

In light of the devastating ecological effects of climate breakdown and with human well-being under severe stress, this paper presents The Lions' Gate-an in-development, urban, interactive permaculture project on-campus in Edinburgh, Scotland. We arg... Read More about The Lions' Gate: Towards a Permaculture-inspired Blended Space.

Computing students' attitudes to environmental sustainability education
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, S., Egan, C., & Plum, K. (2021, June). Computing students' attitudes to environmental sustainability education. Paper presented at Horizons in STEM Higher Education, Online

Students have voiced concerns that their university courses do not equip them with sufficient information to understand the challenges of environmental sustainability. Although some universities (notably UWE and Keele, among others) have made signifi... Read More about Computing students' attitudes to environmental sustainability education.