{"id":15462,"date":"2019-08-29T16:01:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T20:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=15462"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:19","slug":"reclaiming-indigenous-forms-of-knowledge-through-ethno-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/29\/reclaiming-indigenous-forms-of-knowledge-through-ethno-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"Reclaiming indigenous forms of knowledge through &#8220;ethno-computing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"467\" height=\"311\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/29a83a35-5607-4cac-9e30-fcb71d0c4d0c.jpg\" alt=\"Ron Eglash in his office, alongside examples of fractals he's studied.\" class=\"wp-image-15465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/29a83a35-5607-4cac-9e30-fcb71d0c4d0c.jpg 467w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/29a83a35-5607-4cac-9e30-fcb71d0c4d0c-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/29a83a35-5607-4cac-9e30-fcb71d0c4d0c-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><figcaption>Ron Eglash in his office, alongside examples of fractals he&#8217;s studied. (Jenny Friedland\/WBEZ\/Culturally Situated Design Tools)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ron Eglash<\/strong>, professor of information and of art and design, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.umich.edu\/news\/ron-eglash-discusses-ethnocomputing-chicago%E2%80%99s-wbez\">was recently featured in a wide-ranging interview<\/a> on NPR affiliate WBEZ\u2019s program Worldview. Eglash discusses his passion for bringing the sophisticated math and computing ideas at the center of cultural traditions to classroom settings to inspire underrepresented students to pursue studies in STEM fields.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Eglash, indigenous cultures often employ complex algorithms for practical, artistic, or spiritual purposes that mirror modern computing. The field Eglash invented to study this phenomenon is called \u201cethno-computing.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eglash has worked with educators to teach modern processes using indigenous knowledge systems. Students use a website called\u00a0\u201cCulturally Situated Design Tools\u201d\u00a0to re-create cultural staples like African braids, Navajo rugs, and Latin beats as the algorithms they really are.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Eglash, professor of information and of art and design, was recently featured in a wide-ranging interview on NPR affiliate WBEZ\u2019s program Worldview. Eglash discusses his passion for bringing the sophisticated math and computing ideas at the center of cultural traditions to classroom settings to inspire underrepresented students to pursue studies in STEM fields.\u00a0 According to Eglash, indigenous\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/29\/reclaiming-indigenous-forms-of-knowledge-through-ethno-computing\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[217,188,362,588],"class_list":["post-15462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-culture","tag-people","tag-stem","tag-teaching"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/29a83a35-5607-4cac-9e30-fcb71d0c4d0c.jpg",467,311,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/29a83a35-5607-4cac-9e30-fcb71d0c4d0c-200x133.jpg",200,133,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/29a83a35-5607-4cac-9e30-fcb71d0c4d0c-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/29a83a35-5607-4cac-9e30-fcb71d0c4d0c.jpg",467,311,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/29a83a35-5607-4cac-9e30-fcb71d0c4d0c.jpg",467,311,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/29a83a35-5607-4cac-9e30-fcb71d0c4d0c.jpg",467,311,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/29a83a35-5607-4cac-9e30-fcb71d0c4d0c.jpg",467,311,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/29a83a35-5607-4cac-9e30-fcb71d0c4d0c-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/29a83a35-5607-4cac-9e30-fcb71d0c4d0c-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/29a83a35-5607-4cac-9e30-fcb71d0c4d0c-467x300.jpg",467,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/29a83a35-5607-4cac-9e30-fcb71d0c4d0c.jpg",467,311,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/29a83a35-5607-4cac-9e30-fcb71d0c4d0c.jpg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Ron Eglash, professor of information and of art and design, was recently featured in a wide-ranging interview on NPR affiliate WBEZ\u2019s program Worldview. 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