Pippa Buchanan - Photo by Mark Niehus

“Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” -Helen Keller

Hi, I'm Pippa, an Australian living in Berlin, Germany.
I'm passionate about learning, particularly lifelong and self-organised learning styles. I currently work as an educator and developer of learning related technologies.
I make things such as clothes and at least one small boat and cook, eat and read. I like stories. I also like maps, hot cups of tea with milk, Arnott's Western Australian gingernut biscuits, well written songs and plants.

About Me

In 2008 I officially lived in Adelaide, Australia; Helsinki, Finland and Sheffield, UK. As of November, 2008 I’ve lived in Berlin, Germany.  Oh, in 2008 I also travelled in Hong Kong, China and Vietnam.  Needless to say I am now exhausted of both funds, mind and body.

I’ve been keeping a blog since October 2000.

I love meeting people and hearing their stories. I’m fascinated by the edges of friendship – how do we make and break friendships? How does distance and technology influence the ways in which we interact?

I’ve started studying a DIYMasters program on friendship which I’m coordinating myself, rather than studying at a formal institution. I have nothing against formal learning, but I want to see what I can achieve as a student outside of the establishment.

When I grow up I’d like to have a garden, a baby and sing in a choir. I’m not sure when I’ll officially be grown up but I’ve already done the gardening and choir thing and would like to do them again as babies seem like an awful lot of work. So are gardens, but they don’t wake you up in the middle of the night.

I drink an awful lot of tea. In between cups of tea and bathroom breaks I’ve worked as a games programmer and as a web developer (both freelance and for e-learning service providers).  I’ve also honed my interpersonal skills whilst bartending and working in my favourite shop.

I use an Apple Powerbook G4 as my primary computer, but I try to maintain battlecat.net using open source and free software where possible. I choose to use the Wordpress CMS for small scale websites and I run The Gimp and Inkscape within X11.

I’m currently looking for work based in Berlin, Germany.  You can check out my

I’m also looking forward to making new friends in Berlin – feel free to get in touch.

You can also find traces of me on:  , delicious, , , dopplr, , last.fm, School of Everything and 43Things