The ‘unflattening’ folding paper game was created by Julia Velkova and myself as part of the Megabytes versus Megawatts project.* We performed it together at the CLAIMS Infrastructural Play workshop…
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Stormpunk Islands
‘Stormpunk islands’ is a speculative climate fabulation. It’s published online in The Climate Almanac by the Centre for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University, as an Open Access book.…
Megabytes vs Megawatts
Based at Department for Thematic Studies–Technology and Social Change (TEMA-T), Linköping University, the Megabtes vs Megwatts project is about how ideas of sustainability are produced at the intersection between data…
Poem in Reclaiming Technology
‘Edge’ is a poem published in Reclaiming Technology: A Poetic-Scientific Vocabulary, edited by James Maguire and Brit Ross Winthereik, my wonderful former colleagues at Technologies in Practice (TiP), IT University…
EVs at the End of the World Video
AudiTV came to Orkney to talk to me and others about Electric Vehicles, island innovation, and how we produce over 120% of our electricity from renewables. We talked about stone…
Open Access Sci-fi Story
‘The Cuddle Stop‘ short story has been published online as part of the new SF Caledonia online magazine. SF Caledonia is a showcase for short stories written by Scottish SF…
Environment Variables Podcast
Dawn Nafus (Intel Labs) and myself have a fantastic time in conversation with Chris Adams on the Environment Variables podcast, part of the Green Software Foundation. “We’ve moved from a…
Unionized Data Governance
How to do personal energy data governance? With the move to Energy as a Service (EaaS), flexible energy services, where home generators and storage assets are being managed, how can…
Poetry and Writing
Part manifesto, part compilation, this chapter explains how and why the words we choose make a difference to the futures we make. Drawing on philosophy and histories of science, as…
Energy Worlds in Experiment
With 20 different authors, a card game, five theses, a graphic novel, an interview, pages to cut out, and much more, Energy Worlds in Experiment is just that. And it’s…
Graphic novel published
Unda: A Graphic Novel of Energy Encounters has finally hit the shelves and screens! Over a year in the making, this graphic chapter is a massive collaboration with the fabulous…
Postcards from Three Edges
Endre Dányi, Lucy Suchman, and myself returned to our Relocating Innovation project to reflect on the postcards method we developed in our project. To find unexpected connections between our three…