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…
Tag: energy futures
ASLE (Literature & Environment) keynote in Orkney
Thrilled to be giving a keynote at the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (UK and Ireland) conference this year, which is being held in Orkney! The conference is…
Smart Energy Summit, Brussels
Along with representatives from data and energy industries, from Tesla and Microsoft, through to Delta and the EU Commission, I’ve been invited to give an industry talk on Smart Society.…
Newton Machine Exhibition @CCCB
We were delighted to win the Cultural Innovation International Prize 2017, awarded by CCCB Art Gallery in Barcelona, for our project, The Newton Machine. The Newton Machine is a design…
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…
Petrocultures 2018 keynote in Glasgow
There’s a fantastic line up for Petrocultures 2018 in Glasgow, including my energetic colleagues and collaborators from Cultures of Energy, Rice University, Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe. Call for papers…
Electric Nemesis on Smart Power
In March, the UK National Infrastructure Commission released a report on how the electricity grid needs to change in order to keep the lights on, and meet the 2050 targets…
Invisible Work in Marine Energy
Free to download. A collection of seven cards demonstrating the invisible work ongoing at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), in the Orkney islands, Scotland – the world’s first grid-connected…
Design Mailboat
This book chapter began as a performance keynote at 4S/EASST 2012 annual conference in Copenhagen. Lucy Suchman, Pelle Ehn, and myself were asked to consider the conference theme ‘Design and…
The Work of a Poetic Ethnographer
In September 2014 I gave a paper-performance on my poetic research methods at the Department for Thematic Studies, Social and Technical Change (TEMA-T), Linköping University. In the discussion we talked…