Putting out podcasts can be a time-consuming and occasionally anxiety-generating business. And yet, here I am again, now with the 3rd Edition of my podcast series Media, Technology & Culture, hosted at my podcast channel Publicly Sited. This podcast has become a key (but not the only) medium through which I annually think through, revise … Continue Reading
Probably against my better judgment, I am putting out a new podcast series. I’m three episodes in, and only now have I found the time to write something announcing it properly. But here I am. So my new podcast series is titled Media, Technology & Culture, which is hosted at my (new) podcast channel Publicly … Continue Reading
Workshop 5 was the concluding workshop of the CHASE City Maps series, and was led by Ben Fraser (University of Arizona). It had two aims. On the one hand, it offered reflections on the emerging field of Urban Cultural Studies and its interdisciplinary approach, bridging the Arts and Humanities and the Social Sciences. On the … Continue Reading
In Workshop 4 of the CHASE City Maps series, Shannon Mattern (The New School) and Rebecca Ross (Central Saint Martins) examined methods for exploring, excavating, observing, testing, and notating urban media infrastructures, broadly defined. Participants developed a shared infrastructural question and cartographic strategy, before heading out to Bloomsbury’s Russell Square and environs to make observations. … Continue Reading
In Workshop 3 of the CHASE City Maps series, Clancy Wilmott from the University of Manchester (now at University of California Berkeley) began with an outline of her own work on mobile mapping, and the emerging relationships between space, cartography and digital technologies. These themes were connected with the research projects of workshop participants, who … Continue Reading
In Workshop 1 of the CHASE City Maps series, Iain Borden from University College London focused on ‘experience’ as a transdisciplinary urban concept. As depicted in the film from the workshop, his introduction to the concept of experience was both via his own work – on topics ranging from skateboarding to automobile driving – as … Continue Reading
The website for last year’s ‘City Maps’ workshop – which I co-convened with Mari Paz Balibrea and Lawrence Webb – is now live. This series was funded by the CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership, and included workshops led by Johan Andersson, Iain Borden, Ben Fraser, Shannon Mattern, Rebecca Ross and Clancy Wilmott. I’d be remiss to … Continue Reading
Okay, so this really will be my final blog post in a while that begins with the words ‘places available’. With apologies to those not in London / the Southeast of England, some places are available on the next City Maps doctoral training workshop, funded by CHASE, which will take place on Friday 28 June … Continue Reading
With apologies to those not in London / the Southeast of England, some places are available on the next City Maps doctoral training workshop, funded by CHASE, which will take place on Thursday 28 March 2019 at Birkbeck’s University Square Stratford campus. This workshop is part of a series I am co-organising with my Birkbeck … Continue Reading
An edited video is now available for the ‘Ordinary Digital Humanities’ symposium that I organised during Birkbeck Arts Week in mid-May 2017. The event asked what might it mean to think about the digital humanities as ordinary, and focused on the implications of digitisation at the level of everyday academic life – beyond, or perhaps … Continue Reading