Pure Data as a feminist tool for meaningful learning

I would like to re e t upon the ways Pure Data software an improve and reate ontexts for meaningful learning. Following the work of Paulo Freire, latin ameri an edu ator from the sixties, I will highlight the relevan e of reating edu ative environments that be ome embedded with the pra ti es that people develop and refuse o ial one ognitive style instru tional models. Paulo Freire (1974) indi ates how Latin Ameri a has a history of olonization and a history of applying foreign models to its own reality and indi ates the onditions that make knowledge an instan e for domination. In order to des ribe and understand the pro esses behind I will propose to onsider a yberneti view on omputer te hnology and software. The nature of pat hing together with the need to understand the pro esses that are involved in sound pro essing that is o ered by Pure Data is an example of a method where learning develops as a network of relations. It triggers dynami systems of understanding instead of stati ontents that you have to learn through o ial instru tional models like learning to use the interfa e of a software tool. These an 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 edu ating. I would like to propose that Pure Data is a tool for feminist edu ation sin e it propagates a re eptive model, one that is di erent from a paranoid model that relates to ontrolling a pie e of given software. I see appropriation, networks of relations, the power of integration as a feminine way -not meaning a woman waybut a re eptive, symbioti a tion that may empower learning environments for the oppressed.