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 Open Access and free to download as well. This beautifully illustrated (by Neil Ford) edited book is published by Mattering Press and was created as…
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 disparate sites of innovation – the Hungarian Parliament, Silicon Valley, and the Orkney islands – we wrote and sent postcards to each other online from…
Book News Awarded the prestigious Rachel Carson Prize 2021 for its distinctive social and political relevance and contribution to public debate and social change. Awarded by Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). Read more about the prize. “In Energy at the End of the World infrastructures become visible, palpable, personal and energy becomes something…
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 and AHRC Heritage Futures project. How to inhabit a future and explore a time and a place where heritage can end with sustainability, dignity, and…
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 of Orkney Cloud incubated projects and inspirations; a weaving together of people and possibilities that could become an Orkney Cloud. And it is not comprehensive.…
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, and distributed data processing? In a community forum on Orkney, we are imagining and creating community-led managed cloud services at the edge, where the internet…
A new book has just been published, authored by members of the International network for Social Studies of Marine Energy (ISSMER). The book is titled ‘Ocean Energy: Governance Challenges for Wave and Tidal Stream Technologies‘ and provides a series of in-depth chapters on the legal, economic, and social concerns around wave and tidal energy technologies.…
‘The Draukie’s Tale: Origin Myth for Wave Energy’ poem (first published in the edited collection, Ebban an’ Flowan) has been published for a new audience in Energy Humanities: an Anthology, edited by Imre Szeman and Dominic Boyer (published by John Hopkins University Press). It’s a behemoth 300 page book with almost 50 articles, ranging from…
“Beside a sun-glazed canal in Copenhagen we met for the first time, and realised we shared a similar secret. We were both professional academics and profes- sional artists, but had found that our arts practice was not always visible to our colleagues in Science Studies.” –extract from ‘Letters from Wanna Wonder and the Electric Nemesis’.…
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 with a fold-out constellation map and transparent overlay to show the stars over planet Seedbox. As part of my performance of poems at Seedbox, I…