Thinking Through Infrastructure Network
@ttinfranetwork.bsky.social
Thinking through infrastructure – energy, transport, water, waste, housing, health – with methods from the arts, humanities, & social sciences. https://researchcentres.citystgeorges.ac.uk/thinking-through-infrastructure-network
Listen back to our edit of Charmaine Brown’s brilliant walking tour of Peckham, exploring the area’s history of African presence and the social consequences of gentrification on its culture and infrastructure open.spotify.com/episode/5UzQ...
Gentrification and African Presence in Peckham Walking Tour, with Charmaine Brown
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From decluttering bedroom drawers to detoxing from social media, minimalism has taken the affluent class by storm. Are they just an online trend or do they foster deeper desires that might be mobilised in the pursuit of a just world after capitalist growthism? on.soundcloud.com/Px0koxPPU4Wy...
Less is Not Enough: Minimalist Desires and Postgrowth Politics, with Miriam Meissner, Dom Davies, and Postgrowth Planning at UCL Bartlett
From decluttering bedroom drawers to detoxing from social media, minimalism has taken the global affluent class by storm. But what are the cultural politics of minimalist practices? Are they just an o
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Our latest podcast episode turns to military infrastructures at the borders of Britain with Zsuzsanna Ihar, listen back at link below on.soundcloud.com/bFdJBTzBhKpM...
Missiles on the Machair: Military Infrastructures in the Scottish Hebrides, with Zsuzsanna Ihar
Where is Britain’s military infrastructure? Who builds it and how does it reshape rural landscapes? What happens to the communities who must learn to live in its vicinity? How are they persuaded to ac
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honored and delighted to join @drdomdavies.bsky.social and Kremena Dimitrova in the Journal of The @britishacademy.bsky.social, documenting our exhibition at the Academy’s Summer Showcase last year representing @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social journal.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/articles/14/...
Power grids: community energy and comics co-creation
This online exhibition of photographs and artworks provides documentation of ‘Power Grids: Reimagining Energy Infrastructure in Comics’ (2024–2026) The project is funded by the BA/Leverhulme Small Research grant scheme and the images included here were exhibited at the British Academy’s Summer Showcase in June 2025 The project brings together two discrete yet growing social movements: community energy and comics-based research
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Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain, with Marianna Dudley
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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network@ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 4mo agoIf you missed our Electric Wind event with @dudleymarianna.bsky.social last week, you can now listen back on the TTiN podcast channel on.soundcloud.com/sEmCqRDEjWeV...
If you missed our Electric Wind event with @dudleymarianna.bsky.social last week, you can now listen back on the TTiN podcast channel on.soundcloud.com/sEmCqRDEjWeV...
Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain, with Marianna Dudley
What is wind? How do we transform wind into electricity? And how does a view of Britain from the vantage of wind energy change our narrative of its national history and its national geography as well?
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Tomorrow!
Thinking Through Infrastructure Network@ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 5mo agoJoin us for this free public event in London with @dudleymarianna.bsky.social discussing her book Electric Wind with @drdomdavies.bsky.social and featuring an exhibition of art and sound made in response to energy and the weather. Refreshments also provided!! www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Join us next Tuesday!
Thinking Through Infrastructure Network@ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 5mo agoJoin us for this free public event in London with @dudleymarianna.bsky.social discussing her book Electric Wind with @drdomdavies.bsky.social and featuring an exhibition of art and sound made in response to energy and the weather. Refreshments also provided!! www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Bias as a former guest but Thinking Through Infrastructure Network is one the best urbanism podcasts out there
Thinking Through Infrastructure Network@ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 5mo agoOur latest TTiN podcast is now out with Samir Harb, Exhausted Circulation: Palestine and the Politics of Cement on.soundcloud.com/4mnSjnk599sR...
Join us for this free public event in London with @dudleymarianna.bsky.social discussing her book Electric Wind with @drdomdavies.bsky.social and featuring an exhibition of art and sound made in response to energy and the weather. Refreshments also provided!! www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
I’m talking about Electric Wind in London on 31 March with the excellent @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social ! Public talk, all welcome. There’s going to be sound and visual art to enjoy too.
Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain | City St George's, University of London
This seminar will be discussing Marianna Dudley book about how energy has shaped a nation and how a nation is reflected in energy.
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Our latest TTiN podcast is now out with Samir Harb, Exhausted Circulation: Palestine and the Politics of Cement on.soundcloud.com/4mnSjnk599sR...
Exhausted Circulation: Palestine and the Politics of Cement, with Samir Harb
Concrete underpins modern construction and allows for building processes that are mostly taken for granted. But where does the cement that comprises concrete actually come from? What natural resources
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Emerging in the 1960s, power structure research — mapping who holds power in society, how those entities are connected, and how they use their resources to shape major decisions — has been an important weapon in civil rights, antiwar, and labor struggles.
The Power of Power Structure Research
Emerging in the 1960s, power structure research — mapping who holds power in society, how those entities are connected, and how they use their resources to shape major decisions — has been an important weapon in civil rights, antiwar, and labor struggles.
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@ttinfranetwork.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/ttin... I had a great conversation with Dom Davies and you can listen in!
Thinking Through Infrastructure Network@ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 6mo agoWhat is logistics? How is it shaped by capitalist power? And how has it shaped our imaginations in turn? @susanzieger.bsky.social explains for the thinking through infrastructure podcast open.spotify.com/episode/64AW...
What is logistics? How is it shaped by capitalist power? And how has it shaped our imaginations in turn? @susanzieger.bsky.social explains for the thinking through infrastructure podcast open.spotify.com/episode/64AW...
Logistics and Power: Supply Chains from Slavery to Space, with Susan Zieger
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Logistics and Power: Supply Chains from Slavery to Space, the latest episode of the TTiN podcast with @susanzieger.bsky.social is out now! on.soundcloud.com/2XhRSBW1ZTdy...
Logistics and Power: Supply Chains from Slavery to Space, with Susan Zieger
Logistics describes the just-in-time supply chains that make consumer capitalism possible in the twenty-first century. It has seeped into every corner of our imaginations and behaviours, transforming
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Had a great time chatting with @drdomdavies.bsky.social about literature, automobiles, infrastructure, and US empire. @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social is a really cool project - well worth checking out.
Thinking Through Infrastructure Network@ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 6mo agoWhat makes an American road novel? What does this genre tell us about the imperial ambitions of infrastructure? And all the hopes and broken promises of individualised Automobility? @drdomdavies.bsky.social sat down with @mykaabramson.bsky.social to find out more open.spotify.com/episode/41YZ...
What makes an American road novel? What does this genre tell us about the imperial ambitions of infrastructure? And all the hopes and broken promises of individualised Automobility? @drdomdavies.bsky.social sat down with @mykaabramson.bsky.social to find out more open.spotify.com/episode/41YZ...
Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony, with Myka Tucker-Abramson
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Check out our latest podcast episode with @mykaabramson.bsky.social on the American road novel and its uneven journeys across Eastern Europe, Latin America, and elsewhere! What does this genre teach us about the politics of automative infrastructure?!! on.soundcloud.com/vX1R6KCX6gTc...
Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony, with Myka Tucker-Abramson
What makes an American road novel? What are the material conditions that caused it to emerge in the mid-twentieth century? Why does it persist, what does it tell us about infrastructure, and why has i
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Our latest TTiN discussion is also on Spotify, including research by @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social and sound art by @bobbyjewell.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2Yex...
Living With Rain: Planning for Everyday Life in Glasgow, with Andrew Hoolachan and Bobby Jewell
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New episode of Thinking Through Infrastructure podcast out now, featuring @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social and @bobbyjewell.bsky.social on the experience of rain in the wet city of Glasgow and how it calls on us to see (and hear) infrastructure differently on.soundcloud.com/n5QnspCifThX...
Living With Rain: Planning for Everyday Life in Glasgow, with Andrew Hoolachan and Bobby Jewell
How does rain impact how and when people get around, whether on foot, on public transport, or in private vehicles? How does it affect how we use outdoor and public spaces, from parks to streets and sh
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Our short 2025 in review episode out now on our Soundcloud channel and other podcast platforms, featuring brief excerpts from our discussions with @zackpolanski.bsky.social, the Foundational Economy Collective, @julietjfall.bsky.social and others on.soundcloud.com/4TE7ZqvzJaR9...
2025 in Review, with Dom Davies
In this short review episode of the Thinking Through Infrastructure podcast, network convenor Dom Davies looks back at some of TTiN's activities in 2025, including our event with Zack Polanski, our bo
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What does gentrification look and feel like in the 21st century? Listen back to our “How Not to Make a City” panel on the TTiN Soundcloud channel or wherever else you get your podcasts. on.soundcloud.com/kJnUQ8JC5P5u...
How Not to Make a City, with Charmaine Brown, Anna Minton, Betty Owoo, and Ash Rao
How can city makers renew urban spaces in ways that benefit existing residents, rather than displacing them? And how have communities organised to resist their displacement? On 28 November, TTiN put
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What would you say if you had 5 minutes to talk to Matt Damon about the “global water crisis”? Our conversation with Filippo Menga about Thirst published this year by @versobooks.bsky.social is now available on our Soundcloud channel and most podcast platforms. on.soundcloud.com/cp29Zt2aTJKK...
Our next lunchtime seminar is online on Friday 28 Nov, with an exciting panel of academics, journalists, policy makers, and community organisers discussing what gentrification looks like in the 21st-century. How do you regenerate place without displacing communities?
Thinking Through Infrastructure Network@ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 10mo agoAnd our third and final online event of the term assembles a diverse panel of academics, practitioners, and activists to reflect on what gentrification means today and how we can remake cities without displacing residents. Sign up below. www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
It was such a pleasure to chat with @julietjfall.bsky.social about her recent book Along the Line, which explores border infrastructure through graphic narrative. For the new TTiN series of conversations with academics and artists working on infrastructure. m.soundcloud.com/ttinfrastruc...
Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography, with Juliet Fall
Stream Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography, with Juliet Fall by Thinking Through Infrastructure Network on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free ...
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Join us next week for a session on global water infrastructure with Filippo Menga & others - online Tuesday 17 Nov at 12pm GMT. Link below
Thinking Through Infrastructure Network@ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 10mo agoOur second session of the term will explore the global water crisis through discussion of Filippo Menga’s new book, Thirst (Verso 2025), with responses from Naho Mirumachi and Julie Froud Join us online, sign up here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
I just listened to an excellent presentation on comics & infrastructure by Dr Giada Peterle, part of online talks organised by @drdomdavies.bsky.social within @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social. Such a creative, inspiring & generous scholar! (Her drawings on my book from gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...)
