As covered in his book, 'Windrush Cricket', Dr Michael Collins @uclhistory.bsky.social reflects on the role of cricket clubs as safe spaces for the #WindrushGeneration. He also considers the impact of a 1982 game between the Met Police CC and Brixton West Indies CC. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

From 1959 to 1965, Wynn Bullock created amazing abstract color images on 35mm Kodachrome slides. The process, which he developed himself, involved complex multi-layered colored glass and objects, plus the creative and subtle use of depth of field. Color Light Abstraction 1094 #WynnBullock

Queer AF* (*as fungi) - a snapshot from our walk beyond binaries on the Wanstead Flats with fungi futures this weekend.

💚💫🍂🌾🌼 ‘Summer Flowers’ - Wolff Architects - beautifully evocative exhibition on at #uclurbanroom #BessieHead #SouthAfrica #UCLEast #Eastbank #HereEast #wolffarchitects #stratford #uclscci #ilzewolff ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/creative-cul...

Slow Ways is a giant citizen initiative to develop an inspiring national walking network... and we're looking to recruit a tech team to take us to the next level! Could that be you? See beta.slowways.org/Page/job-vac... for more details. @slowwaysuk.bsky.social #SlowWays 🐌💫

👀 lots of folks QT'ing to say: women — submit your manuscripts! I think what has to come first is: universities, fix your gendered service and teaching inequities, and society, balance out your care work, so women *have time* to write the damn manuscripts. So many women colleagues are BURNT OUT.

Playing the Archive: From the Opies to the Digital Playground is now available to pre-order from @uclpress.bsky.social It features the Time Telephone by @vsigno.bsky.social on the cover, and our chapter, From Interfaces to Memories, on transmitting memories of play uclpress.co.uk/book/playing...

A whole team effort! Thanks to Connected Environments for showing up to cheer me on tonight. I loved hearing about all the collaborative, co-creative practice happening at UCL East. Massive respect to our engagement team for their unwavering support and care to make this work possible.

*Amazing Job Opportunity!* Head of Museums and Cultural Programmes, UCL Permanent, full time £66,711–£72,370 Closes 18 December 2024 Come work with me! www.linkedin.com/posts/catrio...

Reminder that this poem exists: The Tiger by Nael, Age 6 826dc.org/student-writ...

An update on the campaign to save Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club in Tower Hamlets. An important case in the struggle to protect London’s social infrastructure, cabaret and LGBTQ+ inclusive venues. Read and sign! www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/op...

Our 6th and final paper making workshop at the Institute of Making, UCL East - using leftover kozo, cotton and sisal from previous sessions, and pulling one massive sheet between three of us. Thanks to artist Mandy Brannan for a wonderful course!

A moving postcard from the Information Age - thank you @djdunc.bsky.social

say I’m beaming not beautiful said the lighthouse to the waves 21.XI.24 dailies, a daily poem on substack

One of the fun things we get to teach our MSc students is to develop historical and scientific knowledge of their field of study - the Information Age exhibit at the wonderful @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social covers the laying of the first telegraphic cables to mobile tech - ta @leahlo.bsky.social

The call is open for the Digital Ecologies III: Machine / Material / Land symposium and exhibition taking place on July 24-25 2025 in Bath. I am curating the Machine Futures strand. sites.google.com/view/digital... #digitalecologies #artandtechnoligy #soil #land #food #machines #criticalai

I've created a starter pack for colleagues and graduate students at the #Bartlett #UCL Faculty of the Built Environment including @timwaterman.bsky.social @willjennings.bsky.social @djdunc.bsky.social @adamdennett.bsky.social and others - who am I missing? Suggestions welcome go.bsky.app/8tVcce6

A starter pack of the lovely folks based at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL - follow for spatial data science, connected environments, and place-based storytelling.

Well, now I like it here even more 🍄‍🟫❤️

This, from Navajo weaver and maths teacher Marilou Schultz, is incredible (via @thisiscolossal.com) 🐡 www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/11/mari...

Bio aspiration - mushroom tickler

Paper making masterclass with Mandy Brannan, week 5 - experimentation with mixed fibres and techniques. The images show mixed papers made with kozo and pigmented cotton using the Japanese method. I’m excited the translucency of the kozo, and the escaping yellow fibres.

It was beautiful today at the Knepp Estate #Rewilding #SlowSundays

I love this little meme and self reference it often

Fungi Futures (Maymana) led my queering the apocalypse colleagues on a mushroom walk around Hackney Marshes today. I’m not quite up to speed with the i.d., but apparently this bracket might be good for kindling.

Fungi photos to follow!

Fun fact: If someone quotes a post of yours in a way that is unwelcome (as is commonplace on Twitter/X) there is a tool to combat the unwanted attention. Simply click the three dot menu on the quote post & click "Detach quote". This removes your post from their quote post. Useful to know, do share!

I love losing myself in trawling museum collections, finding brilliant bits like this Egyptian mosaic glass inlay decorated with a striding Ibis! It's a miniature marvel! #AncientBluesky 🏺 Image: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier (EV 1994,126 Fnr. 882). Link - rlp.museum-digital.de/object/915

One of the projects I most enjoy working on is Memory Mapper, an open source toolkit for creating interactive maps and stories of place memorymapper.github.io Some of the memory maps we’ve worked on and supported, in order… 🧵

Here we go. Done in haste. Make suggestions for adds please. go.bsky.app/H6CKvTy

Paper making with Mandy Brannan, week 4 - pounding and pulling kozo fibres

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now. Jewellery shop sales assistant Summer camp worker Gallery invigilator Supermarket deli assistant Boarding school house mum Life model Gallery technician Railway planning

I’ve taken to throwing clay between meetings.

Leah Lovett (@leahlo.bsky.social) and Valerio Signorelli, "RE:Inventing the Museum: co-creation in digital space"

Paper making with Mandy Brannan, week 3 - experiments with pigmentation.

Paper making with Mandy Brannan, week 2 - recycling and layering

preparing a seminar on repetition in poetry. floored once again by Layli Long Soldier’s Obligations 2. the grief          the grief           the grief          the grief

FASCINATING talk today by @gsvoss.bsky.social where she showed us how art and design practice offers a language to articulate the humanness of complex systems. Her new book Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World, published by @versobooks.bsky.social is 🔥🔥🔥

“What were the material, technical, epistemic, cultural, + political conditions that made the built environment computable? And, conversely, what are the implications of emplacing the history of computing in material + spatial settings – in the built environment?” IEEE CFP: abstracts due Dec 1!

In an effort to re-centre making in my research-practice, I’ve begun a six week paper course at the Institute of Making, UCL East. These are my first sheets: two sisal, two cotton, and one a blend of both fibres. Next week we introduce colour - it’s a slow, unfolding drama!

The Caribbean Cricket Archive is Live! Developed by UCL History researcher Montaz Marche with contributions from club members, this memory map celebrates Caribbean Cricket in Britain. caribbeancricketarchive.memorymapper.org #BlackHistoryMonth2024 #Cricket #History @casaucl.bsky.social