Benches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest.
From journalist Gabrielle Bruney: "The Disappearance of the Public Bench"
Photo of the book over a black surface. It has a light grey soft cover with the title “In the Spaces Between” in white text.
^ A thoughtful, well articulated, beautiful review of our book ‘In the Spaces Between,’ about the past 10 years of the Arts at CERN program.
The book was edited by Monica Bello, with editorial assistance of Ana Prendes and beautifully designed by @nina-cc.bsky.social
DIY Methods, our little conference-by-zine about unconventional approaches to research, rises again! Maybe you'd like to make a zine on your weird/cool approach to methods, and receive a bundle of similarly weird/cool zines in the mail? Pitch submissions are due April 20th. diymethods.net
Poster of the Multimodal Ethnography Days in Barcelona (March 12-13, 2026) with big letters and including the participants and places. Please refer to the website for accessible information
On March 12th and 13th we're organising in Barcelona the Multimodal Ethnography Days workshop, to present and activate the Multimodal Appreciation kit ethnographic research (to appreciate and evaluate multimodal projects)
You could find all the details here: symposium.uoc.edu/go/multimoda...
Ayer se emitió mi conversación con Javier Bolaños, conductor del programa "Cambio Climático" de @canalsurradiotv.bsky.social, donde estuve hablando del Departamento de Umbrología - umbrology.org - y cómo reclamar la soberanía climática
URL: www.canalsur.es/radio/progra... (entre 40:40 y el 50:20)
Together w/ Carla Boserman we published an article on the small power of anthotypes, an affective aesthetics for the urban climatic mutation.
Part of Diseña’s special issue #28 “The Planetary Condition: Designs, Coaexistences & Care to Reimagine Habitability"
revistadisena.uc.cl/index.php/Di...
A beautiful essay by biologist Brian Isett @emergencemagazine.bsky.social on our seasonal cosmic companionship with the Moon
emergencemagazine.org/essay/theia/
A “Parasitology” of Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Theorizing the Add-on Role of Social Sciences and Humanities, Judith Igelsböck
Abstract Anita Välikangas’s analysis of a broad selection of interdisciplinary funding programs shows that the Social Sciences and Humanities’ (SSH) relegation to…
"For you I would pass through deserts of fire
Full of burning and ire, waterless and futile
…
But don't ask me to do what the strongest of men
Seeks to kill deep within, trembling sick to his bones
…
Because the truth is, there is no safe harbor anymore"
subrosausa.bandcamp.com/track/no-saf...
Besides, we've had the immense luck of receiving commentaries by Tim Ingold: rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... and George E. Marcus: rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... to whom we wish to extend our warmest gratitude for their time and insight.
We have benefitted from the very constructive feedback of JRAI's editorial team and peer reviewers, whose insights have allowed us to bring it to fruition.
This joint endeavour has been very long in the making: first drafted as a book proposal in 2019, it slowly grew into a positional essay, which has had many lives before its current instantiation.
Together with Francisco Martínez & Eeva Berglund, we've just published an article in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, where we imagine an 'inviting' anthropology.
With thanks to the @uocuniversitat.bsky.social for their OA support
rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
El proper 26 de gener a les 10 h, presentarem el Departament d’Umbrologia a la Sala d'actes de @fabraicoats.bsky.social (C. Sant Adrià 20, Barcelona - 3a planta). 👤🌑
✍️ Us podeu inscriure en aquest formulari: forms.gle/TWbKjEV7RsMc...
Teniu tots els detalls del projecte en aquesta nota de premsa 👇
🌳🏙️ Repensar les ciutats des de l’ombra
El Departament d’Umbrologia, liderat per la #UOC, proposa l’ombra com a element clau per adaptar les ciutats al canvi climàtic.
🔗 www.uoc.edu/ca/news/2026...
The cover of Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes its Object (1983), only teal and black, with mostly horizontal stripes
RIP German anthropologist Johannes Fabian, who passed away last Tuesday. Fabian was most widely known as the author of "Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes its Object" (1983), a then-radical & still-influential critique of anthropological writing, knowledge-making & fieldwork relations. RIP.
L'attaque du Venezuela est le terrible sequel de la guerre en Ukraine : les puissances fossiles en sont réduites à revenir au modèle impérial classique pour sécuriser leur modèle politique.
La décarbonation comme garantie de sécurité reste en haut de l'agenda.
Tiempo peligroso para la democracia, el deterioro es tenebroso
4.3.2 Knowledge does not exist—what would it be (1.4.3)? There is only know-how. In other words, there are crafts and trades. Despite all claims to the contrary, crafts hold the key to knowledge. They make it possible to return "science" to the networks from which it came (Introduction).
"La crítica sentenciosa me provoca sueño; me gustaría una crítica hecha con destellos de imaginación. No sería soberana, ni vestida de rojo. Traería consigo los rayos de posibles tempestades"
"No puedo dejar de pensar en una crítica que no busque juzgar, sino hacer existir una obra, un libro, una frase, una idea; ella encendería fuegos, observaría la hierba crecer, escucharía el viento y aprovecharía el vuelo de la espuma para esparcirla"
"El desafío político de pensar una jurisprudencia de los cuerpos no rechaza al derecho. Al contrario, despliega las capacidades de invención que nos hacen tomar el derecho como oleaje de una memoria de las luchas ocurridas, y de las que están por venir"
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M. Corrêa @editorialcactus.bsky.social
Una vez destituida la vieja patraña de un "sujeto único del conocimiento", toca al pensamiento construir perspectivismos, en sus varias versiones, como modos de repoblar la tierra con más ojos.
@editorialcactus.bsky.social
OMG OMG OMG
OH. MY. GODDESS.
vimeo.com/1127648743?f...
(Poke @fdrubio1977.bsky.social, @tscriado.bsky.social)
Aquest any Nusos, Arquitectura de Contacte i el Departament d’Umbrologia @uocuniversitat.bsky.social hem estat analitzant la importància urbana de les ombres. Hem creat una guia per analitzar-les, comprendre-les, imaginar-les i intervenir-les.
La podeu descarregar aquí: umbrology.org/2025/12/11/c...
Breve artículo sobre nuestro proyecto #mapasdesombra utilizando datos abiertos #LiDAR y software libre #rstatsES y cómo los algoritmos matemáticos nos permiten optimizar las #rutasdesombra
www.fundacionmuyinteresante.org/mapas-rutas-...
Con @albtorval.bsky.social y J. Puerto @imus-us.bsky.social
El pasado 6 de diciembre por la mañana tuve la ocasión de conversar en detalle sobre el Departamento de Umbrología (umbrology.org) en el matinal de los fines de semana “Más que palabras” de Radio Euskadi, la radio pública vasca: guau.eus/m/radio-eusk...
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Participo de l’Episodi 2: #Perifèria, amb Eliane Brum de Els visitants: idees que venen i van, un nou pòdcast d’assaig que amplifica el pensament a partir de lesidees dels participants del programa de residències internacionals del CCCB i la @uocuniversitat.bsky.social
