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Dom Pates

Getting The Next Ten Years Right

tldr: CogX gave me the cognitive dissonance of trying to balance retaining a critical mindset on AI and the now familiar feelings of…

12 min read2 days ago

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Sketched image contains seven panels representing individual sessions attended as well as a selection of scattered photographs, handwriting, and placements of CogX logos.

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Dom Pates

Building blocks for ‘City 2030’

A co-design climate workshop

12 min readFeb 18, 2024

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Two tables of women in discussion at a workshop. Both tables have three people at them. There is a display of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals on the wall behind the tables.

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Dom Pates

Bringing Climate to the Curriculum

A Rendezvous with Disaster

12 min readFeb 17, 2024

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View of New York skyscrapers from the vantage point of a viewing platform with an orange sky from the pollution particiles from Canadian wildfires.

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Dom Pates

Memories of a Home Retreat

As a kid, up until my 30s, I was a diarist. This meant that thoughts got captured for posterity in the private space of my journal rather…

21 min readFeb 17, 2024

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Timeline graphic showing the adoption of varying reflective writing tools over the period 1984–2024. Covers a paper diary from 1984–2013, Blogger (2006–2013), three different instances of the use of WordPress, Twitter (2009–2024), Medium (2016–2024), Mastodon (2022–2024) and Bluesky (2023–2024).

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Dom Pates

A Climate Copilot for Digital Education

So, Microsoft have made their new OpenAI-powered tool Copilot (‘Your everyday AI companion’) available to certain education clients. On…

14 min readDec 19, 2023

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A Climate Copilot for Digital Education

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Dom Pates

Breaking new ground with ALTc Radio

On farms and lockdowns

13 min readNov 1, 2023

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Photograph of programme for 1992 Glastonbury Festival. Includes an illustration of three people dancing in a field, being watched by a fox.

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Dom Pates

Mind The Gap

July 26th 2012, following a trial set the previous week, The Thursday Night Show launched with a full evening of internet radio.

1 min readJul 27, 2023

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Poster advertising an evening of radio shows to mark the 11th birthday of The Thursday Night Show. Each set is themed around a particular line on the London Underground, with each listing on the poster being depicted in a circular form inspired by the specific tube line.

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Dom Pates

Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire

Heading back into the room

13 min readJul 14, 2023

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Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire

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Dom Pates

A First Year in Podcasting

Radio as an audience medium in Britain really began a century ago with the formation of the BBC in 1922, (see this Ofcom timeline for more…

19 min readJan 3, 2023

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A First Year in Podcasting

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Dom Pates

AI, I Wish I Could Swim…

Back in the hazy heady days of just this summer, I made my first attempt at purposefully tinkering with generative AI when I turned up at a…

11 min readDec 18, 2022

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Image of David Bowie with a Ziggy Stardust-style haircut, up to his waist in flood waters, playing an old looking electric guitar (generated by Stable Diffusion).

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Dom Pates

Dom Pates

Global thinking, technology, education, learning spaces, music, Japan, writing, travel, peace... City, University of London Senior Educational Technologist...

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