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A technological sensorium: Employing environmental sensors and creative data visualisation to engage public discourse on artificial light at night Open
This paper investigates how unattended environmental sensors and creative data visualization can engage public discourse on artificial light at night, with a particular focus on the interrelation of human, non-human, and technological agen…
Sensing the Luminous Night: Capturing and Communicating Time-based Observations of Environmental Light Across Urban and Rural Sites Open
This paper attends to the boundary between the human and the non-human in urban space. It considers the role that light plays in choreographing human and non-human behaviours and how this can be used to situate individuals in spatiotempora…
View article: Re-wilding the Night: Understanding How Darkness Is Valued Through the Nighttime Light Ecology of Bonn Botanical Gardens
Re-wilding the Night: Understanding How Darkness Is Valued Through the Nighttime Light Ecology of Bonn Botanical Gardens Open
Rewilding the Night is an interdisciplinary research project that aims to reimagine the urban night by capturing and communicating the qualities and rhythms of both artificial and natural light at night. Through a collaborative and experim…
The Island of Hoo : A Combinatory Reading of Ruins Open
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View article: Sensing dark places
Sensing dark places Open
Darkness is not simply the absence of light—it offers a nuanced understanding of the self in relation to the environment and others. The night-time qualities of light and sound, for example, create embodied experiences of environments that…
Time and the Anthropocene: Making more-than-human temporalities legible through environmental observations and creative methods Open
The Anthropocene term invokes the multiple temporalities through which organisms, ecologies, and environments unfold – from the immediacy of the present moment to the sedimentary timescales of the geological record. Viewed from the perspec…
The Anthropocene warrants a new standard time Open
The term 'Anthropocene' alludes to processes and timescales that, in turn, affect the processes and timing of life cycles across ecologies and environments. Human time standards tend to obscure this, creating a sense of humans as a soverei…
Research on a Fiber Optic Oxygen Sensor Based on All-Phase Fast Fourier Transform (apFFT) Phase Detection Open
Fiber optic oxygen sensors based on fluorescence quenching play an important role in oxygen sensors. They have several advantages over other methods of oxygen sensing—they do not consume oxygen, have a short response time and are of high s…
View article: More-than-human Nights:Intersecting lived experience and diurnal rhythms in the nocturnal city
More-than-human Nights:Intersecting lived experience and diurnal rhythms in the nocturnal city Open
The contemporary nocturnal city is characterised by the interplay of luminosity and darkness, a chiaroscuro tableau inhabited by a myriad of flora and fauna—including, of course, humans. What patterns, rhythms, and indeed disturbances can …
Design Practice as Fieldwork, Describing the Nocturnal Biome Through Light and Sound Open
Human and non-human behaviours are regulated by cycles of light and dark, while many such behaviours can be detected through sound. This article asks how we might use recordings of light and sound to make the nocturnal urban environment me…
Reverse Archaeology Open
This photo-essay draws from a three-year collaboration—Site_Seal_Gesture (2013–2016)—between archaeologist Lia Wei and geographer Rupert Griffiths. The initial point of departure was a reflection on the use of creative practice in our resp…