Tech Futures – Sand14

‘From Flatlands to Livable Futures’

‘From Flatlands to Livable Futures’ is now out in the Journal of Big Data and Society, and is open access. Julia Velkova and I somehow managed to pack in our multitude of insights

Booklet cover of a grey moody forest in the mist with the title 'Northdark, a narrative role playing game of megabytes versus megawatts'.

Northdark Role-Playing Game

Northdark is a narrative role-playing game for 1-2 players set in a Nordic data center, when the lights have gone out.

Origami folded paper game that has been illustrated. Paper behind with a title reads 'Folding Paper Game'

Unflattening Folding Paper Game

Unflattening, the folding paper game, was created by Julia Velkova and myself as part of the Megabytes versus Megawatts project,

UN World Futures Day

In the Ségur Hall, at the UN Headquarters in Paris, I told the story of an island built to cremate data, to give digital artifacts a good death.

Graphic illustration in blue and green of abstract technical symbols, titled 'Environment Variables'

Environment Variables Podcast

Dawn Nafus from Intel and myself had a fantastic time in conversation with Chris Adams from the Green Software Foundation.

Handmade booklets, one opening showing some dark moody photos of a lamplight at night, the other closed with a triangular map graphic and titled 'Heritage End, a meeting on the islands of Doggerland'

‘Heritage End’ Workshop

Workshop for UNESCO, International Council on Monuments and Sites, University Forum, Amsterdam, June 2019. The workshop allowed the forum to

Photo of part of a book chapter titled 'Liveable data: a low-carbon science fiction with John Urry'

‘Liveable Data’ Chapter

I wrote a low-carbon science fiction short story around the concept of ‘Liveable Data’–those who know John Urry’s work will

Photo of a magazine 'Orkney Cloud' sitting on a pavement with autumn leaves.

‘Orkney Cloud’ Tech Magazine

Funded by a Mozilla Research Grant, the Orkney Cloud project aimed to imagine community-based cloud services. Orkney regularly generates over

Data Stories

Data Stories is a risograph-printed book written with Dawn Nafus, anthropologist from Intel, and designed by Rachel Barron and Nathan

Myths of the Mobile Telecoms Industry

As part of my PhD Thesis in 2007 I created a series of stories as interventions into the future of

Pandora’s Box: Fragments from the Future Archaeologist

As part of my ethnography of the UK mobile telecoms industry in 2007 I created a Pandora’s Box of futures,