Based at Department for Technology and Social Change (Tema), Linköping University, the Megabtes vs Megwatts project is about how ideas of sustainability are produced at the intersection between data infrastructure…
Data Futures
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…
Heritage End – A Workshop
Workshop for UNESCO, ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) University Forum, Amsterdam, June 2019. The workshop was part of an ongoing collaboration with the UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures…
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…
Orkney Cloud tech magazine
As part of our Mozilla Research Grant funded project, Orkney Cloud, I am really excited to announce the publication of our first Orkney Cloud magazine. The magazine is an anthology…
Orkney Cloud: a living laboratory
Orkney Cloud Forum is a living laboratory for cloud services at the network edge. Instead of distant, centralised data storage and processing, how might local cloud services support socialised, shared,…
Whitepaper on Data and Energy convergence
IT Communications and Energy convergence, or ‘ICE’ as I like to call it, seems to be here. The data industry is an energy industry: data centers are benchmarked and marketed…
Data Stories
This art book is my second collaboration with Orkney publisher and poet, Alistair Peebles. This time we have been working with the wonderful artist and designers, Rachel Barron and Nathan…
8 Key Components in a Future Infrastructure
How might we reconsider what infrastructure is, and how might we design it differently? For example, what kinds of connectivity infrastructure would reflect the kinds of futures that people in…