Abstract

I would like to reflect upon the ways Pure Data software can improve and create contexts for meaningful learning. Following the work of Paulo Freire, latin amerian educator from the sixties, I will highlight the relevance of reatizing educative environments that become embedded with the practices that people develop and refuse official one cognitive style instructional models. Paulo Freire (1974) indicates how Latin America has a history of colonization and a history of applying foreign models to its own reality and indicates the conditions that make knowledge an instance for domination. In order to describe and understand the processes behind I will propose to consider a cyberneti view on computer technology and software. The nature of patching together with the need to understand the processes that are involved in sound processing that is powered by Pure Data is an example of a method where learning develops as a network of relations. It triggers dynamic systems of understanding instead of static contents that you have to learn through official instructional models like learning to use the interface of a software tool. These can be said of other programming environments as well but I understand Pure Data as a software and as a ommunity of people sharing roles in learning and educating. I would like to propose that Pure Data is a tool for feminist education since it propagates a receptive model, one that is different from a paranoid model that relates to controlling a piece of given software. I see appropriation, networks of relations, the power of integration as a feminine way -not meaning a women way- but a receptive, symbiotic relation that may empower learning environments for the oppressed.