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…
Artwork
Sci-Fi Short Story
Performed and published as part of International Women’s Day in Shoreline of Infinity 22/23, the award-winning Scottish sci-fi magazine. ‘The Cuddle Stop’ is a short story about a culture of…
Liveable Data
As part of a book in honour of the late, great John Urry, I wrote a low-carbon science fiction around the concept of ‘Liveable Data’ – those who know Urry’s…
Pelamis Wave Energy Machine – a museum exhibit
This visual poem has just been published in the journal of Cultural Anthropology, as part of their special collection ‘Our Lives with Electric Things’. View the published poem. “Why was…
The Newton Machine
In June 2017, myself as part of the ‘Reconstrained Design Group‘ (which includes James Auger and Julian Hanna at Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute M-ITI), Eday Renewable Energy Ltd. and Community…
Dreaming on Lake Orcadie
“It was in Orkney, those Scottish islands closer to the Arctic and to Norway, than to London, where I lay down on the sandstone beach, closed my eyes and dreamed.…
Seedbox Artefacts
A single handmade book with interventions and poems was created as part of my one month residency at Seedbox, Environmental Humanities Collaboratory. This included the ‘Seedbox by Starlight‘ poem sequence…
Seeds for a Seed Box University
As part of my residency at Seed Box, Environmental Humanities Collaboratory, for one month during Autumn 2016, I created a series of interventions and poetic writing. The first is a…
Seedbox: Future Makers Compass
As part of my residency at Seedbox, Environmental Humanities Collaboratory, for one month during Autumn 2016, I created a series of interventions and poetic writing. The first is a poetry…
Seedbox by Starlight
As part of my residency at Seedbox, Environmental Humanities Collaboratory, for one month during Autumn 2016, I created a series of interventions and poetic writing. The first is a collection,…
Catastrophes and Promises
Catastrophes and Promises is a book of fragments. It was made from brief words heard during the plenary panel at 4S-EASST 2016 in Barcelona, and written down on torn-out notebook…
Doggerland Citizen
Doggerland looks out and upwards, across the sea and towards the stars. Doggerland is a land that has no borders, that cannot be contained, its surface flows, sinks, and rises.…