Device Detox

the poet's soup kitchen | die digter se sopkombuis

With creative approaches to research, we illuminate emotional experience behind data. In my PhD research I ask, “What is the nature of lecturers’ encounters with technological teaching tools?” I use poetic inquiry as methodology. In the sound poem you are about to hear, Device Detox, data in the form of sound snippets reveal what it is like for an academic to take a break from the screen. I recorded these snippets during a writing retreat at the Buddhist Retreat Centre in Ixopo, writing in silence alongside others, under the guidance of Dr Dorian Haarhoff.