Outputs (20)

Grounding Technologies: The creative use of mundane and emerging technologies for place-based, just climate action (2023)
Report

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

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.

Empires and Ecologies of the Cloud (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Liquid loss: Learning to mourn our companion species and landscapes (2019)
Journal Article

“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.

Interspecies Urban Planning, Reimaging City Infrastructures with Slime Mould (2019)
Book Chapter

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.

Repair Acts (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

AHRC Design Research Showcase, London Design Festival (2018)
Exhibition / Performance

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

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.

Civic Labs for urban change Layers of planning, between civil society, politics and the economy (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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

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.

MTCD – A visual anthology of my machine life (2018)
Digital Artefact

A live performance and a personal, auto-ethnographic reflection on the uses, misuses, and abuses of technology: artist and researcher Teresa Dillon expands her narrative by taking cues from one “machine” from each year of her life. From radios to hom... Read More about MTCD – A visual anthology of my machine life.

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

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

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.

Sound of the breakdown (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

forthcoming

Reimagining the art institution as an open source civic organisation (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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 Contribution

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

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.

For what it's worth: Sound art practices within secondary school curricula (2016)
Book Chapter

To follow

AMHARC
Digital Artefact

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.

State, festival for open science, art and society (invited curator)
Digital Artefact

forthcoming