The fourth talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @princeguma.bsky.social (@campolis.bsky.social) in collaboration with @infrastructuralgeo.bsky.social
Tuesday 10th March, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
📢 Now in Early View:
The Aesthetics of Urban Metabolism: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility
By Ben Platt & Zuhri James
👉 www.ijurr.org/article/the-...
The third talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by Charlotte Lemanski (@camunigeography.bsky.social)
Tuesday 24th February, 12:30–14:00, Large Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
Exciting lecture series! Highly recommended!
An evocative short blog post from the COLOMBO ERC project website, reflecting on last weeks talk by Tariq Jazeel (authored by Pamudu Tennakoon, Department of History, University of Cambridge):
colombohistories.org/author/pamud...
Great to see interdisciplinary conversations already emerging!
The second talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @ayonadatta.bsky.social (@uclgeography.bsky.social)
Tuesday 10th February, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
I'll be talking about the Hope Botanic Gardens in Jamaica on 27th Jan, using records from the colonial archives at Kew Gardens 🌴
Signup here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empires-pl...
Very excited to be chairing a panel at the upcoming conference on The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies! Amazing line up below:
Check out the schedule for 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies' at our website 👇
digicologies.com/schedule
A few tickets are left!
The first talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @rikjaz.bsky.social (@uclgeography.bsky.social)
Tuesday 27th January, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
Very excited to be hosting 6 amazing speakers over the coming year as part of the urban multiplicities seminar series - with funding from the @camunigeography.bsky.social strategic research initiative!
Please do come along if you can! We will also host a workshop in May - further details to come!
register now for the Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies conference, 2-3 Feb 2026 in Oxford! with keynotes @joannazylinska.bsky.social and Daisy Ginsberg www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual... 🌳 📹 🦫 🛰️
🌐 Registration NOW OPEN for 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies' 🌐
Join us to explore how emerging visual regimes are shaping environmental governance and knowledge politics
With wonderful keynotes: @joannazylinska.bsky.social & Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual...
Announcing the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series, featuring six brilliant speakers
@rikjaz.bsky.social
@ayonadatta.bsky.social
Charlotte Lemanski
@princeguma.bsky.social
@maanbarua.bsky.social
@profgillian.bsky.social
Location: Small Lecture Theatre @camunigeography.bsky.social
my phone just reminded me of this: six years ago today, with the May68-inspired banner I sewed (very poorly I might add) on strike in Cambridge with @benaplatt.bsky.social
higher education is in a far worse place now: la lutte continue !!
Excellent collaboration! Thrilled to see the new paper on urban metabolism from colleague @benaplatt.bsky.social and PhD student @zuhrijames.bsky.social now published in
@ijurresearch.bsky.social!
Poster for talk, with an image from an art installation of three TVs with cartoon seagulls on them. The text reads: The Gamificaiton of Citizenship, Prof Sarah Mills (Loughborough University), Mon 20 October at 5pm, Small Lecture Theatre, University of Cambridge
Screenshot, text reads: The Gamification of Citizenship. Time: 5pm. Venue: Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Cambridge. Speaker: Prof Sarah Mills (Loughborough). 'Good citizenship' has become a game to play, with real prizes to be won. This talk focuses on the 'gamification of citizenship' through a discussion of digital rewards, participation and volunteering. In recent years, a proliferation of mobile apps have incentivised behaviour change in various contexts such as health and sustainability. I argue that the growth of 'gamification' (using elements of game design in non-gaming contexts) in these popular mobile apps has wider implications for debates on citizenship and raises important questions about the use of gambling style techniques within apps for 'social good'. The seminar then charts some of the latest trends in the US and the UK related to citizenship, volunteering and 'character', reflecting on wider geographies of immigration and the contested politics of volunteering as good behaviour'. Contact for questions/ queries: Dino Kadich, (dk566), Department of Geography.
We are pleased to welcome at @sarah-mills.bsky.social to @camunigeography.bsky.social next week! During her visit, she will be giving an exciting talk on the gamification of citizenship on Monday at 5 PM in the Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome, we'd love to see you there!
New paper out in @ijurresearch.bsky.social with @benaplatt.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Very excited to be co-organising this with the Digital Ecologies crew, @profgillian.bsky.social, @benaplatt.bsky.social, and Janina Schupp at the Digital Hub at @jesusoxford.bsky.social.
More info here: digicologies.com/cfp
🌅 How are digital technologies refashioning ecological aesthetics? 🌅
Join us for the next Digital Ecologies conference in February 2026 - CFP now open!
We're delighted to welcome Joanna Zylinska and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg as our keynotes!
Any questions, get in touch.
🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐
'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'
🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)
Deadline: 14th November
Full info: digicologies.com/cfp
Last week members of TechLife visited the ‘More-than-human’ exhibition at the Design Museum @designmuseum.bsky.social in London... A big thanks to the team of curators at the Museum for hosting us and partaking in a fascinating discussion!
What does the more-than-human city look like?
Our Nature of Cities @tnoc.bsky.social Global Roundtable is out: www.thenatureofcities.com/2025/02/12/w...
- with Ferne Edwards, Lucia Alexandra Popartan, @cqualmann.bsky.social, @idilgaziulusoy.bsky.social, @butterflyup.bsky.social, and many others
For this week's seminar, we're joined by Dr @benaplatt.bsky.social who will present his work on #landscape #urbanism and 'the duplicity of landscape revisited'.
Join us in the Desert room at @oxfordgeography.bsky.social or online on Thursday 23rd January at 4pm. All welcome!
Mayor of London @london.gov.uk announces a new review of the green belt around London www.onlondon.co.uk/sadiq-khan-a...
🌍 Our book - 'Digital ecologies: Mediating more-than-human worlds' - will be published in December with @manchesterup.bsky.social!
🍃 Editors: @jonnyjjt.bsky.social, @admsrl.bsky.social, Henry Anderson-Elliott & @evahaifa.bsky.social
🫂 Pre-order now: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/
Defra popping out a bathing water reform consultation the day before a very critical OEP report on bathing waters is due. BIG OMISSION in that there are no plans to monitor any new substances/bacteria. Have your say, as they say.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
