For many in educational technology, blogging has been framed as open digital writing within networked systems. Yet it has become entangled with platform logics—metrics, visibility, and virality—that distance it from lived experience and local community. This session reframes blogging as an open, situated, place-based practice.
Drawing on bava.studio—a physical storefront in Trento, Italy—this talk explores what happens when a blog is grounded in a material location. Posts become installations, archives become objects, and digital reflections move into public space. The blog shifts from a content stream to a site of encounter, curiosity, and conversation.
Through this experiment, I ask: What might edtech look like if accountable to place? How might blogging, freed from platform imperatives, support local culture, reflection, and meaningful community connection?
Attendees of this session will be able to:- What if blogging were understood not merely as an online publishing tool, but as a place on Earth?
- In educational technology, blogging is often framed as digital writing within networked systems. Yet it has become entangled with platform logics—metrics, visibility, and virality—that distance it from lived experience and local community. This session reframes blogging as a situated, embodied, place-based practice grounded in openness as an approach: participation, sharing, and permeability between people and environments.
- Drawing on bava.studio—a physical storefront in Trento, Italy—this talk explores what happens when a blog is grounded in a material location. Posts become installations, archives become objects, and the blog becomes a site of encounter rather than a stream of content.
- This provocation asks: What might edtech look like if accountable to place? How might open, place-based blogging foster meaningful connection, reflection, and community in the real world?
