Miriam Tedeschi

A special issue here of the journal Agoriad entitled 'Thinking with fragments: The allure of the broken, discarded, and disjointed in urban space'.

Exploring what the 'fragment' might offer as a way of thinking about and writing the urban.

agoriad.cardiffuniversitypress.org

New article out, soon to be available in the Proceedings of the SEFI Annual Conference 2025 (www.sefi2025.eu): ‘Developing sustainability competences through a negotiation simulation role-playing game’.
With M. Marttila, M. Äijälä, myself, M. Shaw and J. Levanen

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New article out, open access, in Geoforum: ‘Data doubles co-constructing spatial practices: An empirical study’ doi.org/10.1016/j.ge....
With Johanna Hautala, Andrea Resmini @resmini.bsky.social, and myself.

The research is funded by the Research Council of Finland.

A black tile publicising the new 'Digging into Data: Learning together from analysis experiences' Special Section in Area. There is a quote from Lauren Wagner & Alan Latham's (2025) introduction in the centre. It reads: "We need to open up the process of doing analysis so that it does not feel like a process of simply following an established procedure, turning the handle, and magically getting a good finished research paper or dissertation".

A second black tile publicising the 'Digging into Data: Learning together from analysis experiences' Special Section in Area. Listed contributors include: Lauren Wagner, Alan Latham, Jennie Middleton, Marta Bivand Erdal, Andrew Barnfield, Geoff Bates, Amanda Rogers, Jennie Doyle & Katja Garson.

New Special Section in Area:

'Digging into Data' adds to our 'Thinking with Methods' collection, with 6 papers reflecting on the messy process of qualitative empirical analysis.

Edited by @citiesandstuff.bsky.social & Lauren Wagner - available here⬇️

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#Kant #philosophy #sublime #limit

A screenshot from Flight Diaries. A traced glider flightpath over a map. A popup box with statistics relating to a particular moment of the flight. A poem at the bottom. "A little upwind of the field / a matter of luck / a gentle landing".

New digital piece available in the latest issue of "The Lit Platform"! "Flight Diaries" is the latest iteration of my ongoing work in finding ways of visualising and poetically narrating my experiences as a glider pilot theliteraryplatform.com/stories/flig...

#art #poetry #digital #flight #data #dh

📢 Call for Papers – Cities, Urban Metabolism and the Polycrisis
A panel at the POLLEN 2026 conference (Barcelona, 29 June – 3 July) is looking for contributions in urban political ecology, infrastructure, and urban metabolism.
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"it may attempt too much, but it definitely delivers a lot of elements from which good, honest, reflexive urban scholarship is made": my review of Saila Maria's Transgressive City-Making and Governance is out on Housing Studies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"This text draws on Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology to challenge assumptions about pathology, disability, & embodied experience. It rethinks the body not as a biological fact but as our way of having a world—culturally shaped, historically situated, & always lived."

Gustave Doré’s Haunting Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy Inferno, Canto X: Many artists have attempted to illustrate Dante Alighieri's epic poem the Divine Comedy, but none have made such an indelible stamp on our collective imagination as the Frenchman ...

Gustave Doré’s Haunting Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy

A pixel art garden. Spirits dance in the moonlight. A haiku on screen reads "harvest moon: / building up the fire: / autumn foliage".

Celebrating the late Harvest moon in the Haiku Garden racarter.itch.io/haiku-garden

#bitsy #pixelart #games #gameDev #indieDev #harvestMoon

Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...

Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n

A Complete Digitization of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus, the Largest Collection of His Drawings & Writings No historical figure better fits the definition of “Renaissance man” than Leonardo da Vinci, but that term has become so overused as to become misleading. We use it to express mild surprise that one p...

A Complete Digitization of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus, the Largest Collection of His Drawings & Writings

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Helen Underhill & Cat Button (2025) entitled: 'Confluences of art and research: Reflections on curating an art exhibition as interdisciplinary method' with a black banner at the top. The exhibition ‘Confluences: Water and People’ drew together creative, participatory, community-focused research by partners in Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Malaysia, and the UK, as well as artists whose work connects with the River Tyne, its tributaries, people, and landscapes. This paper addresses this exhibition as a piece of research in its own right, aiming to answer two core research questions: (1) How do people connect with water? and (2) How can we develop new insights into the intangible values of water through exploring these relationships at both local (the specific) and global (the universal) scales? We explore the challenges of interdisciplinary work in relation to our curatorial-research process. The paper does not present or discuss the exhibition itself (we encourage readers to explore the online exhibition at: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/apl/events/water-and-people/), but rather the curatorial process that underpinned it, and what it meant as a piece of research. In doing so, we offer learnings for the development of curation-as-method within interdisciplinary research projects, particularly those with a physical sciences focus such as water security.

#OpenAccess in Area:

'Confluences of art and research: Reflections on curating an art exhibition as interdisciplinary method' by Helen Underhill & Cat Button

This paper reflects on 'curation-as-method' in relation to the 2024 'Confluences: Water and People' exhibition.

doi.org/10.1111/area...

A sunflower basks in the golden rays of evening on campus

Evening rays ☀️🌻☀️🌻

#photography #sunflower #autumn

House on the Water

House on the Water https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/house-on-the-water-1930

WORLD PLANNING SCHOOLS CONGRESS 2026: Call for abstracts, roundtable proposals and PhD workshop applications is open until November 11th, 23:59 EET (Eastern European Time)!

It will take place from June 29th to July 3rd, 2026, in Espoo & Helsinki, Finland.

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We are excited to announce the Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography at the University of Concepción, Chile, 17-20 March 2026. The call is now live @ www.clg.place on our conference page. Deadline for submissions 10 November 2025.

Doctoral Researcher within the Research Council of Finland-funded project Agency in everyday Datafication (AgenDa) The Faculty of Law, University of Turku invites applications for the position of Doctoral Researcher in Law (1 August 2026 – 31 August 2029).Job description The doctoral researcher will use design met...

PhD position, fully funded, three years, based at the Faculty of Law, University of Turku (Finland), within the Research Council of Finland-funded project ‘Agency in everyday Datafication’ (AgenDa) (www.utu.fi/agenda).

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Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and the language of silence | Steven Bindeman We think we communicate and understand most deeply using language. But how can we say what words cannot express? Silence. Drawing on Wittgenstein and Heidegger, philosopher Steven Bindeman argues that...

Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and the language of silence | By Steven Bindeman

We think we communicate and understand most deeply using language. But how can we say what words cannot express? Silence. iai.tv/articles/wit... #philosophy ##silence #Heidegger #Wittgenstein #philsky

A screenshot of a pixel art garden at night. A haiku reads "moon? blossoms? / offering his dragon lights, / for the cottage".

I always say I'm done, but one truly final update - a new astronomical library for calculating equinoxes, solstices, and positions of sun and moon, for as long as this piece exists. A final summer night before the garden switches over to autumn (or vice-versa!) racarter.itch.io/haiku-garden

“A simulacrum is a representation that no longer has an actual referent; there’s no preexisting reality it refers to, it has become the reality itself.”
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COMPUTING HUMAN OVERS[A]IGHT: LAW/APPARATUSVISION/AGENCY | Proceedings of the sixth decennial Aarhus conference: Computing X Crisis

COMPUTING HUMAN OVERS[A]IGHT: LAW/APPARATUSVISION/AGENCY | Proceedings of the sixth decennial Aarhus conference: Computing X Crisis dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Our The Promise of Cultural Geography compilation now exists as a physical book, as well as OA online, thanks to all @vickiezhang.bsky.social work and gomer printing who together have created a beautiful object. We’ll be bringing a lot of them to the #rgsibg25

What do we gain from not recognizing legal agency to women, non-human natural entities, marginalized & disabled people? Just maintain power & agency... we need to change that! During the keynote by Anna Arstein-Kerslake, from @Melbourne University at @legacy-hu.bsky.social Conference, @helsinki.fi

Ruled by Numbers: How Data Dominates Every Facet of Our Daily Lives A piercing sound awakens you: the alarm on your phone. Through squinted eyes you peer in its direction and discern a blinking 7:00 AM. This number denotes the beginning of your day—a day in which y…

Chatbots “aren’t just friendly personal assistants; they’re data harvesting machines that give their developers an even more intimate algorithmic window into your thoughts and desires.”
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Critical Theory: The Basics Critical Theory: The Basics brings clarity to a topic that is confusingly bandied about with various meanings today in popular and academic culture. First defined by Max Horkheimer in the 1930s, “crit...

Martin Shuster, Critical Theory: The Basics - Routledge, 2024
www.routledge.com/Critical-The...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with @drdaveobrien.bsky.social
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“Reading..is not an automatic process of capturing a text in the way photosensitive paper captures light, but a bewildering, labyrinthine, common and yet personal process of reconstruction.”
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Neuroscience needs a new paradigm: the brain is not a machine | Nicole Rust

Neuroscience needs a new paradigm: the brain is not a machine | By Nicole Rust

“The brain is a dynamic complex system—like the weather or a megacity—whose parts interact via feedback loops that are impossible to study in isolation from each other.” iai.tv/articles/neu... #philsky #philsci #neuro

A LLM take on a typical Kandinsky painting. Indeed, it captures the basic essence of various shapes and lines in bold colors being overlaid on one another. However, the comparison ends there - it does rather look like a Microsoft Paint level take on the artist's famous style, such is its crudity. Nonetheless, the LLM helpfully adds the words "Kandinsky" right in the middle of the picture, in case we are not sure.

This is an LLM take on the Mona Lisa. It is a pink cube in the middle of a white canvas. Two eyes and a small mouth adorn it. The Mona Lisa here is bald too, and there are no other details of any kind. The words 'Mona Lisa' are helpfully appended below, lest we be in doubt as to the resemblance.

On an far less poetic note, I've been running more LLM to canvas experiments tonight, and these fine takes on some of the iconic paintings of the world offered much silly mirth. "A team of PhDs in your pocket", indeed...