Laura Phelps

Education consultant. Freelance writer. Expect: language, art, architecture, critical heritage studies, urbanism, pedestrian rights

[Laura Phelps @pterolaur]

'An activist group based in Jakarta...regularly builds human chains on sidewalks around the city to block motorcycles from using them as roads' - can we do this in #Bangkok?? #pedestrianrights

[New York Times World @nytimesworld]

“What makes us lazy is also really just negligence”—the chairman of the Pedestrian Coalition in Indonesia’s capital https://t.co/HWx7PjhOuJ

[Laura Phelps @pterolaur]

.@paragonofanimal What? Nothing.

[PostcardFromThePast @PastPostcard]

I haven't the foggiest idea what to do with myself.

[Laura Phelps @pterolaur]

In other news I've got a part-time job teaching #ArtHistory. Why didn't I think of that before?!

[Laura Phelps @pterolaur]

Currently enjoying: Stewart Brand's 1997 series 'How Buildings Learn' https://t.co/pTk9dr5SWD #architecture

[Laura Phelps @pterolaur]

I wish Twitter was more this and less the other

[Jim Leary @Jim_Leary]

Completely obsessed with these ‘trods’ of the North York Moors. Paved routeways made of flagstones - some medieval. There’s a network of them across the moors. Spent weeks searching out as many as I can.

[Laura Phelps @pterolaur]

'You've lost the news!' How The Day Today changed satire forever https://t.co/jtTEHEcrM0

[Laura Phelps @pterolaur]

This is a great article. "Does the lack of charity in public discourse – the quickness to judge, the aversion to context and intent – stem in part from what we might call the ‘adversarial’ humanities?" #history #arthistory

[Aeon Magazine @aeonmag]

A prosecutorial approach to reading can be a powerful tool in many of the humanities. But the task of the historian is ‘understanding, not judging’ https://t.co/J0kWvNDH3c

[Laura Phelps @pterolaur]

The struggle is real

[edwin heathcote @edwinheathcote]

Another favourite.

[Laura Phelps @pterolaur]

Goodbye beautiful crumbling buildings of #Yangon. But I'll be happy to get back to Bangkok...

[StirlingHistHeritPol @ustirhistpol]

"The concrete blocks that once protected Britain. More than 100 years ago acoustic mirrors along the coast of England were used to detect the sound of approaching German zeppelins." @stuffofwar https://t.co/JT1PMe8QQF

[crosswhatfields @crosswhatfields]

#ErosHouse Landmark building now disowned by award-winning architect because of what #LewishamCouncil have allowed to happen to it. Doesn't fit into their plans. https://t.co/wWBDg8TreU

[Laura Phelps @pterolaur]

Well, my brain's starting to leak out of my nose and ears, but I've written 80% of a #PhD research proposal and I'm super excited

[Laura Phelps @pterolaur]

A year ago this wouldn't even have registered and now it's a genuinely important question (answer: wallcreeper) #birds

[Audubon Society @audubonsociety]

If you could see any bird in 2019, what would it be?

[Co.Design @FastCoDesign]

Need to remember something? Draw it https://t.co/kAxsxO3KrT

[Laura Phelps @pterolaur]

@KateChhatwal @EmmaSundt Ha, I've been informed this is a temporal impossibility but please do keep at it :)

[Laura Phelps @pterolaur]

Taking some extremely tentative steps back into the world of Twitter after a nine-month absence *draws curtain nervously to one side*

[Laura Phelps @pterolaur]

@EmmaSundt Dude is that the nativity

[Laura Phelps @pterolaur]

@11thhourspecial Thank you! It's nice to be back. But then it's only been about an hour :)

[Laura Phelps @pterolaur]

@AnneHendler @11thhourspecial @robshpprd @HanaTicha @Ven_VVE @timhampson @kamilaofprague @pronbites @BrereTokyo Thanks Anne! Added those not already following x

[Laura Phelps @pterolaur]

@AnneHendler Yeah in Thailand until spring I think. Maybe a pre-sessional back home in the summer but nothing confirmed. Always happy to take recommendations!