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Alan Dix

Alan Dix

Director of the Computational Foundry at Swansea University – digital thinker, coast walker, professor, creativity teacher, and researcher in all aspects of the way humans interact with technology and how technology impacts society.

I was born in Cardiff, lived for ten years in Tiree, outermost of the Inner Hebrides, and now live on the West Wales coast.

In 2013 I walked the entire perimeter of Wales, one of only around a dozen people who have done this. Over one thousand miles of mountain and bog, city and village, cliff and beach through some of the wealthiest and poorest parts of the country, whole days hardly meeting a soul and yet never far from the traces of past human activity from the bronze age to the industrial revolution and beyond.
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slare

To saunter, to be slovenly (The Dialect of Cumberland – Robert Ferguson, 1873). Rarely used in Cumbria now but has a meaning of to walk slowly, to amble, to walk with no particular purpose. Used for example in the ballad Billy Watson’s Lonnin written by Alexander Craig Gibson of Harrington, Cumbria in 1872 “Yan likes to trail ow’r t’ Sealand-fields an’ watch for t’ commin’ tide, Or slare whoar t’Green hes t’ Ropery an’ t’ Shore of ayder side “(Translation: One likes to trail over to Sealand Fields and watch for the coming tide, Or slare over to where the Green has the ropery and the Shore on the other side) Billy Watson’s Lonning (lonning – dialect for lane) still exists and can be found at Harrington, Cumbria.

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