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Grounding Technologies: The creative use of mundane and emerging technologies for place-based, just climate action (2023)
Report
Dillon, T., Lowe, J., Rasbash, Z., & Blackburn, M. (2023). Grounding Technologies: The creative use of mundane and emerging technologies for place-based, just climate action. Bristol: Bristol+Bath Creative R+D

Putting people and place at the heart of our work, Grounding Technologies explores how everyday, emergent and mundane technologies can support community-centred climate action. Such ambitions were achieved through a programme of public calls that... Read More about Grounding Technologies: The creative use of mundane and emerging technologies for place-based, just climate action.

Tales of Care & Repair (2022)
Book
Dillon, T. (2022). Tales of Care & Repair. DCRC, University of the West of England

TALES OF CARE & REPAIR is a crowd-sourced collection of photographs, texts, interviews, events and stories about the objects we repair today. The projects associated publication 'Tales of Care & Repair' was published in 2022 and summarized the key e... Read More about Tales of Care & Repair.

The practice of multispecies relations in urban space and its potentialities for new legal imaginaries (2021)
Journal Article
Dillon, T. (2021). The practice of multispecies relations in urban space and its potentialities for new legal imaginaries. Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 12(Special Issue), 148-161. https://doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2021.00.07

This article explores what it means to enact multispecies relations in urban space. This exploration is rooted in contemporary art practices that create living frameworks through which encounters with non-human animal cultures, histories, rituals and... Read More about The practice of multispecies relations in urban space and its potentialities for new legal imaginaries.

Methodologies of softness (2021)
Journal Article
Dillon, T. (2021). Methodologies of softness. Copenhagen Architecture Festival Journal,

Teresa Dillon introduces Soft Agency and their methodological approach.

Call into the now. Guided visual mediation workshop (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T. (2021, June). Call into the now. Guided visual mediation workshop. Presented at Climate Care, Floating University, Berlin

The Floating University site was originally constructed so as to control of rainwater levels associated with the Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin. Previously an airport, the Feld is now one of the cities most important green recreational spaces. As result... Read More about Call into the now. Guided visual mediation workshop.

Prototyping AI ethics futures: Data, AI and environment (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T. (2021, June). Prototyping AI ethics futures: Data, AI and environment. Presented at Prototyping AI ethics futures: Data, AI and environment, Online

Without big data, we can’t describe ‘a climate’. As individuals, we are nevertheless entreated to minimise data consumption in order to consume less energy. Yet on a global scale data-based technologies ‘instrument’ our relationships with other livin... Read More about Prototyping AI ethics futures: Data, AI and environment.

Empires and Ecologies of the Cloud (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T. (2020, January). Empires and Ecologies of the Cloud. Presented at transmediale, Berlin

Invited respondant: Exchange #2: Empires and Ecologies of the Cloud Teresa Dillon Daphne Dragona Sarah Friend Mél Hogan Ulises Ali Mejias Solveig Suess Moderated by Daphne Dragona Discussion Lecture Fri, 31.01.2020 15:30 to 17:30 Volk... Read More about Empires and Ecologies of the Cloud.

Crafting Admin, Performing Bureaucracy (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T. (2019, October). Crafting Admin, Performing Bureaucracy. Presented at urbanize!, Berlin

What can artists do for business? How can business become a medium for artistic practice? How can crafting new modes of administration and bureaucracy enable and inform new forms of economy and commoning with the city? This workshop explores alter... Read More about Crafting Admin, Performing Bureaucracy.

In Your Aerial (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T. (2019, October). In Your Aerial

Established in the early 2000s, Bristol Wireless is a community network with a unique history and exciting new future. Developed so as to provide free Internet services to schools and community centers across central Bristol. As commercial Internet p... Read More about In Your Aerial.

Liquid loss: Learning to mourn our companion species and landscapes (2019)
Journal Article
Dillon, T. (2019). Liquid loss: Learning to mourn our companion species and landscapes. Screen City Biennial, 2,

“The world tells a big story: living arrangements that took millions of years to put into place are being undone in the blink of an eye.”[1] In 2015, a team of biologists, zoologists and ecologists[2] published a paper that examined whether human... Read More about Liquid loss: Learning to mourn our companion species and landscapes.

The art of sonic deception (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Dillon, T. (2019). The art of sonic deception. In J. L. Marzo (Ed.), After Post-Truth: Interface Politics Conference, 2nd International Conference (319-330)

Sonic deception is the tactical use of sound to confuse, misguide and disrupt. Discourses of deception, trust and the semiotics of suspicion often neglect sound in favour of more linguistic, verbal readings. Drawing on Goodman’s (2009) analysis of th... Read More about The art of sonic deception.

The Force Majeure: Selected readings on climate change (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Dillon, T. The Force Majeure: Selected readings on climate change. [https://www.floatinguniversity.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ClimateCare_Program_Doubble_Web_31-07.pdf]. Performed at Floating University, Berlin. 1 August 2019 - 10 August 2020. (Unpublished)

Invited contributor to "Climate Care, A Curriculum for Urban Practice", curated by Gilly Karjevsky & Rosario Talevi, as part of Raumlabors, Floating University. For the programme, I selected a number of readings, to perform at the daily reading cy... Read More about The Force Majeure: Selected readings on climate change.

Interspecies Urban Planning, Reimaging City Infrastructures with Slime Mould (2019)
Book Chapter
Dillon, T. (2019). Interspecies Urban Planning, Reimaging City Infrastructures with Slime Mould. . River Publishers

The slime mould Physarum polycephalum optimises its shape in a geometrically constrained space. We explore this property in order to reconsider how we could develop more inclusive, interspecies approaches to urban planning and infrastructure. Working... Read More about Interspecies Urban Planning, Reimaging City Infrastructures with Slime Mould.

NØ SCHOOL (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T. (2019, July). NØ SCHOOL. Presented at NØ SCHOOL NEVERS, Nevers, France

Invited guest teacher and supervisor for the first, international No programme NØ SCHOOL programme. NØ SCHOOL 2019 was led by artists, academics, critical makers, hackers, designers from all over the world. NØ SCHOOL NEVERS JUNE 29TH TO JULY 11T... Read More about NØ SCHOOL.

My Square Mile, Mapping the history of Repair and Maintenance business in Bristol (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T., & Pietrangleo, C. (2019, May). My Square Mile, Mapping the history of Repair and Maintenance business in Bristol. Presented at EUGEO, Association of Geographical Societies in Europe, Galway

My Square Mile is a pilot study into the history
of repair and maintenance businesses in a square mile around Bedminster, Bristol. The project maps changes in businesses that deal with repair and maintenance from 1938 to 2018. Drawing for example... Read More about My Square Mile, Mapping the history of Repair and Maintenance business in Bristol.

Dancing with the Dog: Interspecies cadence and urban life (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T. (2019, May). Dancing with the Dog: Interspecies cadence and urban life

Invited lecture at the Environmental Justice Research Unit, Cardiff Uni, 14th May In ‘Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene’ (2016), Donna Haraway, proposes that a humanity with a more earthly integrity, “invites the priority of... Read More about Dancing with the Dog: Interspecies cadence and urban life.

Repair Acts (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T., & Kisseih, A. (2019, May). Repair Acts. Presented at re:publica19, STATION Berlin

Join Teresa Dillon (Professor of City Futures/Bristol) and Amanortey Kisseih (Accra/Vienna) for a conversation on how artists are producing 'urgent eco-critical stories' that reimagine repair and its associated cultures. Positioned within debates on... Read More about Repair Acts.

MC/Host Polar Produce (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T., Rich, K., & Multiple Others, M. O. (2019, February). MC/Host Polar Produce. Presented at RADMIN -A festival of Administration, Bristol, UK

Feral Business Network presents: RADMIN -A festival of Administration Feb 14-16 2019, Cube Microplex, Bristol UK What can artists do for business? At a time where the legitimacy of 'business as usual' has been called spectacularly into doubt... Read More about MC/Host Polar Produce.

Surveillé·e·s (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Dillon, T. Surveillé·e·s. [Recycled cardboard]. Exhibited at Navan, Co Meath. 12 January 2019 - 1 March 2019. (Unpublished)

Curator Nora Hickey's group exhibition originated in the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. With work by Karl Burke, Alan Butler, Willie Doherty, Roseanne Lynch, Colin Martin, Ian Wieczorek and others, the show considered a world of ubiquitous, visi... Read More about Surveillé·e·s.

Repair Acts, Care, Reuse and Maintenance Culture (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T., & Kisseih, . A. (2018, December). Repair Acts, Care, Reuse and Maintenance Culture. Presented at re:publica '18, Accra, Ghana

Join Teresa Dillon (Professor of City Futures/Bristol) and Amanortey Kisseih (Accra/Vienna) for a conversation on how artists are producing 'urgent eco-critical stories' that reimagine repair and its associated cultures. Positioned within debates on... Read More about Repair Acts, Care, Reuse and Maintenance Culture.

RepairActs, Penryn, 2018 (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T., & DeSilvey, C. (2018, October). RepairActs, Penryn, 2018. Presented at RepairActs, Penryn

The final part of our 2018 workshop series focused on the craft aspects of our CECE – Critical, Essential, Craft and Economic – axes. A sites visits to Godolphin House opened the first day, with stone mason and sculptor David Paton providing an over... Read More about RepairActs, Penryn, 2018.

Making Futures Bauhaus+ (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T. (2018, September). Making Futures Bauhaus+. Presented at 4th Istanbul Design Biennial - A School of Schools A Biennial about Design as Learning, and Learning as Design., Istanbul

Invited to contribute to Raumlabor's, Making Futures Bauhaus+, Istanbul Mobile Workshop: Engaged Education as part of the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial - A School of Schools A Biennial about Design as Learning, and Learning as Design. Making Futur... Read More about Making Futures Bauhaus+.

AHRC Design Research Showcase, London Design Festival (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
Dillon, T. AHRC Design Research Showcase, London Design Festival. [http://repairacts.net/]. 20 September 2018 - 23 September 2018. (Unpublished)

Repair Acts invited to showcase as part of AHRC Design Research Showcase, London Design Festival 2018. Repair Acts is an international and multidisciplinary network of people working on topics relating to repair, care and maintenance cultures.... Read More about AHRC Design Research Showcase, London Design Festival.

Listening around: Sonic extractions of the electromagentic spectrum (2018)
Journal Article
Dillon, T. (in press). Listening around: Sonic extractions of the electromagentic spectrum. Journal of Sonic Studies,

This paper opens with sound 0018 HF-pc lookingforwifi, taken from Martin Howse and Shintaro Miyazaki’s online archive Sonic Archaeology. The number (0018) refers to the order in the catalogue and the sound of the high frequencies (HF) that were picke... Read More about Listening around: Sonic extractions of the electromagentic spectrum.

After the Revolution… Who’s going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning?* (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T. (2018, June). After the Revolution… Who’s going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning?*. Presented at Make City, Bar Kosmetiksalon Barbette, Berlin

A public conversation about repair cultures and care practices as they relate to architecture and the built environment. With Elke Krasny and Teresa Dillon, moderated by Rosario Talevi. With contemporary urban development agendas primarily driven... Read More about After the Revolution… Who’s going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning?*.

Civic Labs for urban change Layers of planning, between civil society, politics and the economy (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T. (2018, June). Civic Labs for urban change Layers of planning, between civil society, politics and the economy. Presented at Make City, Tschechisches Zentrum Berlin

Fundamental questions of future urban development can only be addressed when municipal administrations work alongside civic society. Civic and production labs – along with think tanks – increasingly come into play, shaping new forms and approaches to... Read More about Civic Labs for urban change Layers of planning, between civil society, politics and the economy.

Under new moons we stand strong - Symbolism and literacy in an era of digital oppression (2018)
Book Chapter
Dillon, T. (2018). Under new moons we stand strong - Symbolism and literacy in an era of digital oppression. In B. Doringer, & B. Felderer (Eds.), Faceless: Re-inventing Privacy Through Subversive Media Strategies (287-301). Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110527704-017

In an era of digital oppression, by which I mean the digital regimes and systems of traceability and accountability that we now encounter everyday, the mask and masking of oneself takes on another meaning. It is within this context that the return of... Read More about Under new moons we stand strong - Symbolism and literacy in an era of digital oppression.

Screening Donna Haraway: Story Telling For Earthly Survival and discussion with artists Matana Roberts and Kelly Jayne Jones (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T. (2018, May). Screening Donna Haraway: Story Telling For Earthly Survival and discussion with artists Matana Roberts and Kelly Jayne Jones

Donna Haraway: Story Telling For Earthly Survival + discussion with Matana Roberts, Kelly Jayne Jones and Teresa Dillon Directed by Fabrizio Terranova / 2016 / 90 mins / In English / Digital / Cert 18 (TBA) - Thu 3 May 2018 // 20:00 Screen... Read More about Screening Donna Haraway: Story Telling For Earthly Survival and discussion with artists Matana Roberts and Kelly Jayne Jones.

Repair Cultures (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T. (2018, March). Repair Cultures. Presented at Refrag, Paris

Refrag #4 Cradle-to-Grave is a symposium exploring new connections between art, culture and technology. Using the life-cycle assessment as the structure for the fourth edition of the refrag festival, we are creating a space for debates and exchan... Read More about Repair Cultures.

Repair Acts, New Delhi (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T. (2018, March). Repair Acts, New Delhi. Presented at Repair Acts, New Delhi

Addressing critical, essential and economic forms of repair this workshop was the second in a third part series, with a focus broadly on repair, reuse, waste and maintenance cultures in India, namely New Delhi. Alongside mapping areas of knowledge, p... Read More about Repair Acts, New Delhi.

Repair Acts, Bristol (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T. (2018, March). Repair Acts, Bristol. Presented at Repair Acts, Bristol

This workshop brought together practitioners from a variety of fields to discuss critical forms of repair. Part of an interlinked series of workshops titled CECE – Critical, Essential, Craft and Economic our guest speakers included the artist Linda B... Read More about Repair Acts, Bristol.

Working the break point: Maintenance, repair and failure in art (2017)
Journal Article
Dillon, T. (2017). Working the break point: Maintenance, repair and failure in art

This article draws on repair practices within the arts, media and academia. Taking Mierle Laderman Ukeles, MANIFESTO FOR MAINTENANCE ART 1969! as a starting point the paper discusses what Schulz (2017) has referred to as the ‘turn’ towards repair. Em... Read More about Working the break point: Maintenance, repair and failure in art.

Are You Still Watching? (2017)
Exhibition / Performance
Dillon, T. Are You Still Watching?. [http://www.polarproduce.org/works/are-you-still-watching/]. Performed at Arnolfini, Bristol. 20 October 2017 - 20 October 2017. (Unpublished)

Are You Still Watching? draws on the histories of CCTV installation, animal mythology and critical-eco narratives to explore and speculate on the continued normalisation of machine vision and surveillance technologies within our urban spaces.

Working the break point: Maintenance, repair and failure in art (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T. (2017, October). Working the break point: Maintenance, repair and failure in art. Presented at Screen City Biennial, Stavanger, Norway

Aesthetics of Repair (Migratory Art) Invited Panel at Screen City Bienalle Migrating Stories, Stavanger 12-31 Oct, 2017 Stavanger, Norway From cultures to aesthetics of repair: departing from the notion of cultures of repair (Peter Weibel, Glo... Read More about Working the break point: Maintenance, repair and failure in art.

Sound of the breakdown (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T. (2017, September). Sound of the breakdown. Presented at ISSTA International Festival and Conference on Sound in the Arts, Science and Technology (ISSTA 2017), Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland

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Reimagining the art institution as an open source civic organisation (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T. (2017, June). Reimagining the art institution as an open source civic organisation. Presented at ISEA 2017, Manizales, Colombia

Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) is an encompassing term, which refers to the licenses associated with making the source code that is the instructions and language per se, which define how software works and is made available for others to rea... Read More about Reimagining the art institution as an open source civic organisation.

Sonic city folklores: The noise, the unheard & the Reenacted (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T. (2017, March). Sonic city folklores: The noise, the unheard & the Reenacted. Presented at PLASMA, Department of Media Study University, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Sonic City Folklores: The Noise, The Unheard & The ReEnacted took a journey through four city-based works “star gone tones” (2005), “seeing at a distance” (2006), “sounds like here” (2012) and “Canary Songs” (2016), as well research into the artistic... Read More about Sonic city folklores: The noise, the unheard & the Reenacted.

Hospitality and ownership of spaces (2017)
Book Chapter
Dillon, T. (2017). Hospitality and ownership of spaces. In L. Manach, & S. Pop (Eds.), Creativity in Urban Context (101-107). Future DiverCities

How can art open up new forms of hospitality and commoning in the city? Dillon’s URBAN HUT taps into this question of living art shaping civic reality in the city.

AMHARC
Digital Artefact
Dillon, T. AMHARC

Since the late 1960s Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) has become a dominant feature in many of our cities. Central to CCTV upkeep and maintenance is the addition of metal or plastic spikes, which are aimed at deterring birds from perching or nesting... Read More about AMHARC.