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!

Ben Platt@benaplatt.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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!

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...

Empires, Plants & Gardening: Kew in Jamaica

The second talk in our series exploring the influence of political and economic power on garden-making

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Very excited to be chairing a panel at the upcoming conference on The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies! Amazing line up below:

Digital Ecologies@digicologies.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Check out the schedule for 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies' at our website 👇 digicologies.com/schedule A few tickets are left!

Check out the schedule for 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies' at our website 👇 digicologies.com/schedule A few tickets are left!

Schedule — Digital Ecologies

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Digital Ecologies@digicologies.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🌐 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...

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!

Urban Multiplicities@urbanmulti.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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

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!

New paper out in @ijurresearch.bsky.social with @benaplatt.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper out in @ijurresearch.bsky.social with @benaplatt.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility

In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begi...

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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

CFP — Digital Ecologies

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🌅 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.

Digital Ecologies@digicologies.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🌐🚨 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

🌐🚨 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

What does the more-than-human city look like? – The Nature of Cities

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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...

Sadiq Khan announces review of London Green Belt as he restates 'brownfield first' stance - OnLondon

Sir Sadiq Khan has announced a full-scale review of the capital’s Green Belt in response to what he said were concerns about “an impression being given that it’s a ‘wild west’ when it comes to green b...

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🌍 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/

Manchester University Press - Digital ecologies

Digital ecologies - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Digital ecologies by Jonathon Turnbull

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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...

Bathing water reforms to consider water sports and water quality

Defra invites the public, community and environmental groups, farmers, businesses and local authorities to share views on modernising bathing water regulations.

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