Ben Platt
@benaplatt.bsky.social
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Teaching Associate in Urban Geography, University of Cambridge
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Urban Multiplicities
11 days ago
The fourth talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by
@princeguma.bsky.social
(
@campolis.bsky.social
) in collaboration with
@infrastructuralgeo.bsky.social
Tuesday 10th March, 16:30β18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
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π’ Now in Early View: The Aesthetics of Urban Metabolism: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility By Ben Platt & Zuhri James π
www.ijurr.org/article/the-...
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Urban Multiplicities
23 days ago
The third talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by Charlotte Lemanski (
@camunigeography.bsky.social
) Tuesday 24th February, 12:30β14:00, Large Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
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Christian Dimmer
about 2 months ago
Exciting lecture series! Highly recommended!
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Urban Multiplicities
about 1 month ago
An evocative short blog post from the COLOMBO ERC project website, reflecting on last weeks talk by Tariq Jazeel (authored by Pamudu Tennakoon, Department of History, University of Cambridge):
colombohistories.org/author/pamud..
. Great to see interdisciplinary conversations already emerging!
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Urban Multiplicities
about 1 month ago
The second talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by
@ayonadatta.bsky.social
(
@uclgeography.bsky.social
) Tuesday 10th February, 16:30β18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
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Heather Craddock
about 2 months ago
I'll be talking about the Hope Botanic Gardens in Jamaica on 27th Jan, using records from the colonial archives at Kew Gardens π΄ Signup here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empires-pl...
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Empires, Plants & Gardening: Kew in Jamaica
The second talk in our series exploring the influence of political and economic power on garden-making
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empires-plants-gardening-kew-in-jamaica-tickets-1976390347733
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Very excited to be chairing a panel at the upcoming conference on The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies! Amazing line up below:
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about 2 months ago
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Digital Ecologies
about 2 months ago
Check out the schedule for 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies' at our website π
digicologies.com/schedule
A few tickets are left!
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Urban Multiplicities
about 2 months ago
The first talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by
@rikjaz.bsky.social
(
@uclgeography.bsky.social
) Tuesday 27th January, 16:30β18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
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Very excited to be hosting 6 amazing speakers over the coming year as part of the urban multiplicities seminar series - with funding from the
@camunigeography.bsky.social
strategic research initiative! Please do come along if you can! We will also host a workshop in May - further details to come!
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gillian rose
2 months ago
register now for the Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies conference, 2-3 Feb 2026 in Oxford! with keynotes
@joannazylinska.bsky.social
and Daisy Ginsberg
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual...
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Digital Ecologies
about 2 months ago
π Registration NOW OPEN for 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies' π Join us to explore how emerging visual regimes are shaping environmental governance and knowledge politics With wonderful keynotes:
@joannazylinska.bsky.social
& Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual...
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Urban Multiplicities
about 2 months ago
Announcing the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series, featuring six brilliant speakers
@rikjaz.bsky.social
@ayonadatta.bsky.social
Charlotte Lemanski
@princeguma.bsky.social
@maanbarua.bsky.social
@profgillian.bsky.social
Location: Small Lecture Theatre
@camunigeography.bsky.social
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adam searle
3 months ago
my phone just reminded me of this: six years ago today, with the May68-inspired banner I sewed (very poorly I might add) on strike in Cambridge with
@benaplatt.bsky.social
higher education is in a far worse place now: la lutte continue !!
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Cambridge Geography
4 months ago
Excellent collaboration! Thrilled to see the new paper on urban metabolism from colleague
@benaplatt.bsky.social
and PhD student
@zuhrijames.bsky.social
now published in
@ijurresearch.bsky.social
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Dino
5 months ago
We are pleased to welcome at
@sarah-mills.bsky.social
to
@camunigeography.bsky.social
next week! During her visit, she will be giving an exciting talk on the gamification of citizenship on Monday at 5 PM in the Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome, we'd love to see you there!
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Zuhri James
5 months ago
New paper out in
@ijurresearch.bsky.social
with
@benaplatt.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility
In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begi...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-2427.70030
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Jonny Turnbull πΊπ¦
5 months ago
Very excited to be co-organising this with the Digital Ecologies crew,
@profgillian.bsky.social
,
@benaplatt.bsky.social
, and Janina Schupp at the Digital Hub at
@jesusoxford.bsky.social
. More info here:
digicologies.com/cfp
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CFP β Digital Ecologies
cargo.site
https://digicologies.com/cfp
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Jonny Turnbull πΊπ¦
5 months ago
π How are digital technologies refashioning ecological aesthetics? π Join us for the next Digital Ecologies conference in February 2026 - CFP now open! We're delighted to welcome Joanna Zylinska and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg as our keynotes! Any questions, get in touch.
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Digital Ecologies
5 months ago
ππ¨ CALL FOR PAPERS π¨π 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies' ποΈ 2-3 February 2026 π
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating) Deadline: 14th November Full info:
digicologies.com/cfp
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Technological Life - SoGE Oxford
8 months ago
Last week members of TechLife visited the βMore-than-humanβ exhibition at the Design Museum
@designmuseum.bsky.social
in London... A big thanks to the team of curators at the Museum for hosting us and partaking in a fascinating discussion!
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Ida Nilstad Pettersen
about 1 year ago
What does the more-than-human city look like? Our Nature of Cities
@tnoc.bsky.social
Global Roundtable is out:
www.thenatureofcities.com/2025/02/12/w...
- with Ferne Edwards, Lucia Alexandra Popartan,
@cqualmann.bsky.social
,
@idilgaziulusoy.bsky.social
,
@butterflyup.bsky.social
, and many others
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What does the more-than-human city look like? β The Nature of Cities
https://www.thenatureofcities.com/2025/02/12/what-does-the-more-than-human-city-look-like/
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Technological Life - SoGE Oxford
about 1 year ago
For this week's seminar, we're joined by Dr
@benaplatt.bsky.social
who will present his work on
#landscape
#urbanism
and 'the duplicity of landscape revisited'. Join us in the Desert room at
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
or online on Thursday 23rd January at 4pm. All welcome!
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Mark Tewdwr-Jones
about 1 year ago
Mayor of London
@london.gov.uk
announces a new review of the green belt around London
www.onlondon.co.uk/sadiq-khan-a...
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Sadiq Khan announces review of London Green Belt as he restates 'brownfield first' stance - OnLondon
Sir Sadiq Khan has announced a full-scale review of the capitalβs Green Belt in response to what he said were concerns about βan impression being given that itβs a βwild westβ when it comes to green b...
https://www.onlondon.co.uk/sadiq-khan-announces-review-of-london-green-belt-as-he-restates-brownfield-first-stance/
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Digital Ecologies
over 1 year ago
π Our book - 'Digital ecologies: Mediating more-than-human worlds' - will be published in December with
@manchesterup.bsky.social
! π Editors:
@jonnyjjt.bsky.social
,
@admsrl.bsky.social
, Henry Anderson-Elliott &
@evahaifa.bsky.social
π« Pre-order now:
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/
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Manchester University Press - Digital ecologies
Digital ecologies - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Digital ecologies by Jonathon Turnbull
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/
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Rachel Salvidge
over 1 year ago
Defra popping out a bathing water reform consultation the day before a very critical OEP report on bathing waters is due. BIG OMISSION in that there are no plans to monitor any new substances/bacteria. Have your say, as they say.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Bathing water reforms to consider water sports and water quality
Defra invites the public, community and environmental groups, farmers, businesses and local authorities to share views on modernising bathing water regulations.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/bathing-water-reforms-to-consider-water-sports-and-water-quality.
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