Debate Series Registration form Digital Infrastructural Urbanism(s): Asia–Africa Encounters and Beyond

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Flyer for the Digital Infrastructural Urbanism(s): Asia-Africa Encounters and Beyond debate series.

If you have time this afternoon (or evening or morning, depending on where you are), join us for this session of the Digital Infrastructural Urbanism(s) debate series. During this talk, Sheema Fatima and I will present work on building the digitalising state at the peripheries in India and Kenya.

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📢 CfP 'Researching the Digitalising State' RGSIBG 2026, London 2026.

We will explore methods for researching the digitalising state and its challenges: restricted access, confidentiality barriers, outsourced governance, and rapidly changing technologies.

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Flyer for the lecture titled 'Informational Peripheries: Seeing from the Margins of Place, Flow, and Data' by Fenna Hoefsloot. This lecture is part of the Critical Urbanisms lecture series 2025 and will be held on Tuesday, 14 October from 4 to 6 PM CET.

Looking forward to this session next week, discussing our recently published book 'Informational Peripheries' as part of the @unibas.ch Critical Urbanisms lecture series. Give me a shout if you'd like to join, and I'll share the Zoom link!

Consultation on the future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds: Executive Summary This consultation seeks your views on access arrangements at the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds -Highgate Men’s Pond, Kenwood Ladies’ Pond and Hampstead Mixed Pond, with a particular focus on potential changes at the Highgate Men’s Pond and the Kenwood Ladies’ Pond. Following the recent Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland, and in line with other service providers, the City of London Corporation is reviewing its policies, including those at the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds. Your feedback will help inform decisions about future arrangements, alongside legal obligations, equality and safeguarding duties, financial constraints, and practical considerations.

📣 Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds need your help!
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They’ve always been firmly trans-inclusive, but now this is under threat.
Please respond to their consultation to show how much public support there is for trans-inclusive arrangements.
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It's not only in clothing! Spotify just recommended me a Dark Academia Jazz playlist for 'in a dim, dusty library' 🥲

Informational Peripheries Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...

Congratulations to @ayonadatta.bsky.social and Fenna Imara Hoefsloot! Their #OpenAccess book Informational Peripheries published earlier this week. Read & download free at: bit.ly/4l76QR4 #UrbanTheory #Digitalisation #DataPolitics

@jmigozzi.bsky.social @termcern.bsky.social, Catherine Gateri, Dennis Mbugua Muthama, Asher Ghertner, Josie Wittmer, Julie-Anne Boudreau, Shoshana Goldstein, Calvin King Lam Chung, Jingya Dai, Juan Demerits & Jiang Xu, many many thanks!

Deep thanks to our contributors (see👇), who challenge dominant narratives and foreground the politics of information in varied and often overlooked contexts.

If your work touches on critical data studies, archival theory, or infrastructures of marginality, we hope this speaks to you.

Informational Peripheries Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...

Informational Peripheries is out now with @uclpress.bsky.social! It brings together critical perspectives on how information flows (or doesn’t) across the edges of systems: archives, infrastructures, digital divides, and more.

Edited with @ayonadatta.bsky.social 🙌

uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...

Informational Peripheries Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...

Our 'Informational Peripheries' book is now published and out for the world to read in paperback and online free #openaccess.
Edited with @fennaimara.bsky.social
It has been a pleasure working with @uclpress.bsky.social Read & download free at: bit.ly/4l76QR4
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... are key to achieving inclusive digital planning. The design of inclusive digital planning tools is not limited to software features but also relates to hardware functionalities and the environment in which a tool is used.

People with disabilities are experts who should contribute to the design of public spaces and digital planning tools. Taking the lessons learned from the co-design process, we argue that digital, physical, social and procedural accessibility ...

The co-design process served to identify barriers and obstacles to the accessibility of public spaces and user requirements for the inclusive design of the collaborative mapping tool. The tool was tested and evaluated with people with disabilities and municipal planners from Zwolle.

Happy to share our research on developing an inclusive digital tool for urban planning in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. With Johannes Flacke and Karin Pfeffer @utwente.bsky.social and a fantastic group of co-researchers from Toegankelijk Zwolle

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Welcome back! Let me know when you're on campus and have time for a coffee!

UN warns 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours without aid – Israel-Gaza war live UN’s humanitarian chief says aid lorries, which contain baby food and nutrition, are technically in Gaza but have not reached civilians

This is happening right now.

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NRC vandaag:

uk #geosky - please sign this letter to the RGS, to get them to pushback on anti-trans rhetoric from the Supreme Court and EHRC

Informational Peripheries Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...

Cover reveal! ✨

Our new book, 'Informational Peripheries: Rethinking the Urban in a Digital Age,' will be available this August! Get a first look here: uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...

There will also be a digital open access version 🙌
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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic

www.crabmuseum.org/visit

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

Excited that our research article with commentaries and response is out now in the inaugural issue of @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social! Honoured to be amongst so many people I look up to in the launch of this great new journal. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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This. Protect trans kids. Protect trans rights. Gender is a spectrum. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary people exist. Inter-sex & DSD people exist. Gender-non-conforming people exist. Transphobia is anti-feminist. Laws are often wrong and unjust. We must fight for a fairer future.

Join our team!

Today the Dutch senate is debating its budget cuts on higher education. Around 1 billion euros in cuts with jobs and entire programs on the line.

They have a clear choice between investing in the future or going down the drain like the US is currently doing. Let’s hope they make the right choice 🟥

Infrastructural times: Temporality and the making of global urban worlds Published in Space and Polity (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Delighted to see my review of @jpaddie.bsky.social @mrglassphd.bsky.social & @jen-nelles.bsky.social excellent 'Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the making of global urban worlds' out. Empirically specific and theoretically expansive, this book deserves to be read! doi.org/10.1080/1356...

Congratulations! That's massive! 🙌

Timing the state - Ayona Datta, Fenna Imara Hoefsloot, 2025 We wish to express our gratitude to the interlocutors for their considered and thoughtful commentaries on our article. They invoke new questions around the powe...

📣 Pleased to announce response paper with @fennaimara.bsky.social out on @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social responding to brilliant commentaries by @andretwp.bsky.social Jack Odeo @jpaddie.bsky.social @xazaaradjame.bsky.social @princeguma.bsky.social Nancy Odendaal.

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📣 We're still accepting abstracts! Reach out if you've got an interesting paper on the tensions between creativity and codeability in digital urban governance. We'd love to hear from you!

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