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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

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/...

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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?

If you missed our Electric Wind event with @dudleymarianna.bsky.social last week, you can now listen back on the TTiN podcast channel

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Tomorrow!

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Join us next Tuesday!

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Thanks Bobby!

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Bias as a former guest but Thinking Through Infrastructure Network is one the best urbanism podcasts out there

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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!!

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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.

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.

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Exhausted Circulation: Palestine and the Politics of Cement, with Samir Harb

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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

Our latest TTiN podcast is now out with Samir Harb, Exhausted Circulation: Palestine and the Politics of Cement

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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.

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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I had a great conversation with Dom Davies and you can listen in!

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Logistics and Power: Supply Chains from Slavery to Space, with Susan Zieger

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...

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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

Logistics and Power: Supply Chains from Slavery to Space, the latest episode of the TTiN podcast with @susanzieger.bsky.social is out now!

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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.

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Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony, with Myka Tucker-Abramson

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

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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

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?!!

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Living With Rain: Planning for Everyday Life in Glasgow, with Andrew Hoolachan and Bobby Jewell

Our latest TTiN discussion is also on Spotify, including research by @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social and sound art by @bobbyjewell.bsky.social

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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.

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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.

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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?

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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 ...

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.

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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

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Black & white comic by Giada Peterle, within a visual review of J Fall's book "Along the line". The visual commentary uses quotes from the book in dialogue with drawn personal experiences by G Peterle, drawn as a visual response as part of her written commentary. The two panel page shows and assemblage of mobile phone app used to control mobility, feet and bodies moving in the city during covid lockdowns, as a sort of visual dialogue between two experiences of the same pandemic in different places.

Black & white comic by Giada Peterle, within a visual review of J Fall's book "Along the line". The visual commentary uses quotes from the book in dialogue with drawn personal experiences by G Peterle, drawn as a visual response as part of her written commentary. The two panel page shows and assemblage of mobile phone app used to control mobility, feet and bodies moving in the city during covid lockdowns, as a sort of visual dialogue between two experiences of the same pandemic in different places.

Same as previous, showing small infrastructure elements of fences and tapes to control the movement of bodies during covid lockdowns.

Same as previous, showing small infrastructure elements of fences and tapes to control the movement of bodies during covid lockdowns.

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/...)

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We start in just over an hour. Still spaces to join!

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This Wednesday we’ll be talking drawing, walking, and writing infrastructure with Giada Peterle. Join us at lunchtime for this online seminar by registering here www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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The first in our new TTiN podcast series of interviews with academics and artists working on infrastructure is now live!

In this episode, Nicola Kirkby discusses her new book, Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel. Listen on your usual podcast platform!

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