We write software, build tools, create archives + design interfaces. Outcomes encompass the physical and digital. Computation is central, but not always visible
Open Source Munitions Portal, a first iteration of valuable new tool for identifying munitions used in modern conflict. A recent collaboration with @airwars https://t.co/ABoXezVDda
Book Launch on Feb 9th, 6pm GMT, for “When I image the earth, I imagine another” with @sophiecdyer, @sashacakes, @rctngle and writer Daisy Hildyard. Presented with @NNPress as part of our UK branch. Zoom registration link TBD
‘Open-weather: speculative-feminist propositions for planetary images in an era of climate crisis’ is out today via Geoforum @ElsGeogPlan 🌤
Co-authored with my fave co-conspirators @sophiecdyer Lizzie Malcolm & Daniel Powers @rctngle ⚡️
https://t.co/3j0QAVo27Z
Over the past month we’ve been lucky to work with @sophiecdyer and @sashacakes on their project ‘When I image the earth, I imagine another’. It’s been a technical challenge, but a wonderful collaboration!
https://t.co/4bqpJ58C5Q
No substitute for a Garnethill Degree Show, but we’ve been busy working on the 2021 Glasgow School of Art Showcase, which launched on Wednesday. ~600 students and a full schedule of events over the coming week. 🎉
https://t.co/iAMVJiUtse
Since 2017, the gov. of China has carried out systematic abuses against Muslims in Xinjiang. Today, @amnesty published a report of their investigations and we’ve been working with them on an online version. Read the full report at https://t.co/D53D0W2bec
It’s been a pleasure to work with @Counterflows on their online programme this year – some incredible work to explore for the whole of April at https://t.co/5QAu9eVpgW, first event live tonight at 19:30 GMT
Something that should happen more often: documentation of tools made in the process of a project — great to work with @sophiecdyer and @amnesty on formalising this process https://t.co/TzxZ4PXE1e
For months our amazing researchers, analysts, assessors and geolocators have been painstakingly mapping every known locally reported air and artillery strike in Libya since 2012. Check out our new interactive map - in Arabic and English - of 3,200 events. https://t.co/2wMHsWlIdk
With @airwars, over the next 24hrs we’re livecasting the names of 8,337 civilians that were killed or injured in Syria, Iraq, Libya & Somalia in recent years. A focus on individual people and those whose deaths do not fit within the usual narrative of war.
https://t.co/wjEiH1mAPd
TONIGHT in London, 7pm: Come hear @N_Waters89, and our own great design consultants @rctngle, on the challenges of visualising conflict data at scale - while making sure that the experiences of individual victims remain foregrounded. https://t.co/uKeZ0s1fT5