Buon #25aprile. Sobrietà un cazzo

Black bird hide witha gravelled path with wooden fence. A man with a yellow jacket walking down the path

Saltmarsh with lighthouse in the background

Some Mondays at work are better than others (especially when you get to see seals!!)
Lovely fieldwork in Walney Island planning for some exciting teaching in the autumn at Lancaster School of Architecture

Model map of city with acrylic blobs showing smells

Tactile map of textures found on buildings in the city. Each building is abstracted as a block

Map of ethnic minority owned businesses in Lancaster City centre

Map of noises and crowds

For the "A Sense of Place" project out Y1 architecture students have been developing sensory maps of Lancaster. So proud of the time and care they put into this!

Rows of shelves full of boxes

Hands handling old pictures of field recordings

Handwritten diary pages

Dried fish fin

The amazing treasure trove that are the archives of the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology...

And it also made me nostalgic of thar time of enthusiasm towards physical UX that Nokia represented. I worked with them for a brief period and we were given so much freedom to explore incredibly far fetched concepts!

This made me think of the extensive phone archive @proftriviality.bsky.social keeps in the office and which is a constant source of amusement.

Back from an inspiring workshop+walk sharing ideas about art, data, and hydrology. The weather made me think of this magic I was able to witness 5 years ago: when the sea froze at low tide and the upcoming high tide then broke the ice into shards. Never seen anything like this before and since.

Teal coloured gansey jumper haging on a white door

finally finished knitting my very own traditional Gansey jumper (with all the trimming, incl gussets and my initials at the bottom). Just as maternity leave ends and I return to my research on design, craft and the coast in the new year. This should keep me toasty in the blustery North West weather

Rly proud that our paper on "Drawing Together Coastal Futures that may, could, or will" is out on TRACEY special issue Drawing+Anthropocene. ojs.lboro.ac.uk/index.php/TR.... We came a long way since we wrote the paper, but this is where our conversations on Art+Design in coastal futures started

A Political Ecology of the Repair Manual The best repair manuals present a vision of repair that is social, embodied, intuitive, and accessible. What if we extend these principles beyond material objects, to the scale of civic systems and sp...

Our new series "Repair Manual" examines how design professions might shift from building the world to repairing it. But what can we learn from manuals themselves?

In her latest, @shannonmattern.bsky.social turns to the repair manual, as genre and political ecology: placesjournal.org/article/step...

Getting Yr1 architecture students to make a zine as part of their project on contested pasts and futures of Lancaster was an absolutely cracking idea. Love the sass and thoughtfulness!

A lovely stormy day for doing fieldwork on the coast

Do you do Design Research? Or do you work in Fan Studies? Or perhaps even both! Please consider coming to our free symposium on Design and Fan Studies on 1st March in Lancaster, UK. Details and EoI form here! forms.office.com/e/TP00d21ixf

The squiggles! The novelty typeface! The (raster only) clip art!!

“criticize me and I will destroy your life” is a time honored tool of billionaires ever and one of the biggest reasons we should not have any

It is so infuriating that it is not surprising one bit when splashy, glamorous, attention grabbing academic projects (especially in design&architecture) are founded on awful ethics and dodgy research!

You can hear me talking about climate change and stereography (old school VR) in the final episode of the '100years 100objects' podcast from Lancaster City museum --> onehundredyearsonehundredobjects.podbean.com