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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 6d

Looking forward to this session next week, discussing our recently published book 'Informational Peripheries' as part of the @unibas.ch Critical Urbanisms lecture series. Give me a shout if you'd like to join, and I'll share the Zoom link!

Flyer for the lecture titled 'Informational Peripheries: Seeing from the Margins of Place, Flow, and Data' by Fenna Hoefsloot. This lecture is part of the Critical Urbanisms lecture series 2025 and will be held on Tuesday, 14 October from 4 to 6 PM CET.

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 10d

📣 Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds need your help!
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They’ve always been firmly trans-inclusive, but now this is under threat.
Please respond to their consultation to show how much public support there is for trans-inclusive arrangements.
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Consultation on the future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds:

Executive Summary

This consultation seeks your views on access arrangements at the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds -Highgate Men’s Pond, Kenwood Ladies’ Pond and Hampstead Mixed Pond, with a particular focus on potential changes at the Highgate Men’s Pond and the Kenwood Ladies’ Pond.

Following the recent Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland, and in line with other service providers, the City of London Corporation is reviewing its policies, including those at the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds. Your feedback will help inform decisions about future arrangements, alongside legal obligations, equality and safeguarding duties, financial constraints, and practical considerations.

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · 19d

It's not only in clothing! Spotify just recommended me a Dark Academia Jazz playlist for 'in a dim, dusty library' 🥲

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UCL Press @uclpress.bsky.social · Aug 7

Congratulations to @ayonadatta.bsky.social and Fenna Imara Hoefsloot! Their #OpenAccess book Informational Peripheries published earlier this week. Read & download free at: bit.ly/4l76QR4 #UrbanTheory #Digitalisation #DataPolitics

Informational Peripheries

Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · Aug 5

@jmigozzi.bsky.social @termcern.bsky.social, Catherine Gateri, Dennis Mbugua Muthama, Asher Ghertner, Josie Wittmer, Julie-Anne Boudreau, Shoshana Goldstein, Calvin King Lam Chung, Jingya Dai, Juan Demerits & Jiang Xu, many many thanks!

Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · Aug 5

Deep thanks to our contributors (see👇), who challenge dominant narratives and foreground the politics of information in varied and often overlooked contexts.

If your work touches on critical data studies, archival theory, or infrastructures of marginality, we hope this speaks to you.

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · Aug 5

Informational Peripheries is out now with @uclpress.bsky.social! It brings together critical perspectives on how information flows (or doesn’t) across the edges of systems: archives, infrastructures, digital divides, and more.

Edited with @ayonadatta.bsky.social 🙌

uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...

Informational Peripheries

Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...

uclpress.co.uk

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Ayona Datta @ayonadatta.bsky.social · Aug 5

Our 'Informational Peripheries' book is now published and out for the world to read in paperback and online free #openaccess.
Edited with @fennaimara.bsky.social
It has been a pleasure working with @uclpress.bsky.social Read & download free at: bit.ly/4l76QR4
@uclgeography.bsky.social

Informational Peripheries

Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...

bit.ly

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · May 30

... are key to achieving inclusive digital planning. The design of inclusive digital planning tools is not limited to software features but also relates to hardware functionalities and the environment in which a tool is used.

Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · May 30

People with disabilities are experts who should contribute to the design of public spaces and digital planning tools. Taking the lessons learned from the co-design process, we argue that digital, physical, social and procedural accessibility ...

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · May 30

The co-design process served to identify barriers and obstacles to the accessibility of public spaces and user requirements for the inclusive design of the collaborative mapping tool. The tool was tested and evaluated with people with disabilities and municipal planners from Zwolle.

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · May 30

Happy to share our research on developing an inclusive digital tool for urban planning in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. With Johannes Flacke and Karin Pfeffer @utwente.bsky.social and a fantastic group of co-researchers from Toegankelijk Zwolle

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · May 28

Welcome back! Let me know when you're on campus and have time for a coffee!

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · May 20

This is happening right now.

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

UN warns 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours without aid – Israel-Gaza war live
UN’s humanitarian chief says aid lorries, which contain baby food and nutrition, are technically in Gaza but have not reached civilians

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Saskia Bonjour @saskiabonjour.bsky.social · May 15

NRC vandaag:

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Anson Mackay 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ans.bsky.social · Apr 30

uk #geosky - please sign this letter to the RGS, to get them to pushback on anti-trans rhetoric from the Supreme Court and EHRC

Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · Apr 30

🌺 Geographers at any career stage anywhere in the world! Last day to join 330 of us — PhD students to profs — committed to trans inclusion and to pushing back against the discriminatory Supreme Court/EHRC events. Please share.

Closes Wed 30 Apr 1700 GMT docs.google.com/document/u/0...

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · Apr 28

Cover reveal! ✨

Our new book, 'Informational Peripheries: Rethinking the Urban in a Digital Age,' will be available this August! Get a first look here: uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...

There will also be a digital open access version 🙌
@uclpress.bsky.social @ayonadatta.bsky.social

Informational Peripheries

Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...

uclpress.co.uk

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · Apr 22

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic

www.crabmuseum.org/visit

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · Apr 17

Excited that our research article with commentaries and response is out now in the inaugural issue of @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social! Honoured to be amongst so many people I look up to in the launch of this great new journal. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

@ayonadatta.bsky.social

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · Apr 16

This. Protect trans kids. Protect trans rights. Gender is a spectrum. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary people exist. Inter-sex & DSD people exist. Gender-non-conforming people exist. Transphobia is anti-feminist. Laws are often wrong and unjust. We must fight for a fairer future.

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · Apr 16

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · Apr 7

Join our team!

UCL Department of Geography @uclgeography.bsky.social · Apr 7

🚨 Job Alert!

We're hiring a Project Administrative Officer for the Regional Futures project! Join the team and help drive research on digitalisation and urbanisation in the Global South.

Apply by 22 April 2025! 🌍
🔗 tinyurl.com/ucl-rf

#GeographyJobs #UCLCareers #UrbanStudies #Digitalisation

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · Mar 25

Today the Dutch senate is debating its budget cuts on higher education. Around 1 billion euros in cuts with jobs and entire programs on the line.

They have a clear choice between investing in the future or going down the drain like the US is currently doing. Let’s hope they make the right choice 🟥

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · Feb 26

Delighted to see my review of @jpaddie.bsky.social @mrglassphd.bsky.social & @jen-nelles.bsky.social excellent 'Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the making of global urban worlds' out. Empirically specific and theoretically expansive, this book deserves to be read! doi.org/10.1080/1356...

Infrastructural times: Temporality and the making of global urban worlds

Published in Space and Polity (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social · Feb 24

Congratulations! That's massive! 🙌

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Ayona Datta @ayonadatta.bsky.social · Feb 24

📣 Pleased to announce response paper with @fennaimara.bsky.social out on @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social responding to brilliant commentaries by @andretwp.bsky.social Jack Odeo @jpaddie.bsky.social @xazaaradjame.bsky.social @princeguma.bsky.social Nancy Odendaal.

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Timing the state - Ayona Datta, Fenna Imara Hoefsloot, 2025

We wish to express our gratitude to the interlocutors for their considered and thoughtful commentaries on our article. They invoke new questions around the powe...

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