This was a conference session made into an arts and ethnography method. Five people from Orkney told their own personal story of one beach, where the European Marine Energy Centre…
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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…
Orkney Futures: a Handbook
Orkney Futures: A Handbook is a collaboration between myself and Alistair Peebles of Brae Editions, Orkney. It was inspired by our shared interest in the relationship between the Orkney landscape…
An Ethnographer’s Guide to Making a Train Journey
This interactive online book was developed in 2005 as part of the Travel Time Use in the Information Age research project. It reflects my experiences as an ethnographer travelling around…
A Future Archaeology of the Mobile Telecoms Industry
My PhD thesis on A Future Archaeology of the Mobile Telecoms Industry (completed 2007) is available to read online. This thesis weaves together two ethnographic stories, one in London and…
Orkney: Landscapes of Future Resistance
Videocast of my paper-performance Orkney: Landscapes of Futures Resistance at 4S/EASST 2008 conference at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. The piece explores how the landscapes of the Orkney islands, Scotland, have an agency…
Travel Remedy Kit
As a result of my ethnography of public transport in the UK, part of the Travel-Time Use research project, I created a ‘Travel Remedy Kit’ to validate the findings of…