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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · 17d

📣Deadline tomorrow!

We're a welcoming and active research group. If you're looking to meet new people, get involved in digital geographies activities, learn about Geography research groups, and much more make sure you apply

Applications open to geographers and those in similar disciplines

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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · 28d

We're looking for fantastic digital geographers to join our committee!

A few committee roles are open, and we’d love to see new (and familiar) faces step up. It’s a chance to meet other digital geographers and help shape what we do next.

Apply here: shorturl.at/kvDIv
Deadline: 24th Sept.

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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · 28d

We're looking for fantastic digital geographers to join our committee!

A few committee roles are open, and we’d love to see new (and familiar) faces step up. It’s a chance to meet other digital geographers and help shape what we do next.

Apply here: shorturl.at/kvDIv
Deadline: 24th Sept.

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Anna Jackman @ahjackman.bsky.social · Aug 29

It was a pleasure to deliver this year’s
@dgrgrgs.bsky.social annual lecture at #RGS2025. Thank you @adammpacker.bsky.social
& @tessosborne.bsky.social for the kind invitation, to @debbiehopkins.bsky.social for rich discussant reflections, and to all who joined the session ⭐️

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Tess Osborne @tessosborne.bsky.social · Aug 28

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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · Aug 28

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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · Aug 28

We have a day of exciting events today, don't miss out!

🔹Our AGM at 13:10 is a chance to hear from the committee & details of our upcoming election

🔹Our inaugural lecture from @ahjackman.bsky.social on her fascinating research

🔹And many more DGRG sponsored sessions throughout the day

#RGSIBG25

Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · Aug 21

We warmly invite you to the Digital Geographies Research Group Annual Lecture at @rgsibg.bsky.social AC25 at @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Our inaugural lecture will be given by @ahjackman.bsky.social (@uniofreading.bsky.social) on ‘Feminist digital geographies in flight: Diversifying drone stories’

The poster shows a picture of Dr Anna Jackman University of Reading alongside her social media handles for BlueSky and LinkedIn with the title of her presentation ‘Feminist digital geographies in flight: Diversifying drone stories’ and the abstract. The header reads ‘RGS-IBG 2025. Digital Geographies Research Group Annual Lecture. Thursday 28th August 2025, Lecture Theatre 1 - LG19’.

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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · Aug 27

Welcome to RGS-IBG AC25!

We have an exciting lineup of 14 (co-)sponsored session over the next few days, as well as our Annual Lecture & Reception. Join us for conversations across a broad range of topics intersecting the digital.

Please check ExOrdo for locations/timings.

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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · Aug 25

Are you at the RGS-IBG conference in Birmingham this week? And do you have a story to share about a place that is meaningful to you?

Look out for our Pin the Tale stand in the Teaching and Learning Building foyer, where you can browse our online map, read other people’s stories and add your own.

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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · Aug 26

📣Today's the day!! Don't miss our exciting RGS pre-conference event. It's also a great chance to meet some members of the committee. We're a friendly group and welcome anyone whether your key focus is digital geographies or you're just starting to explore ideas

12pm-5pm Room 125 & the Map Room

Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · Aug 15

Planning your RGS annual conference itinerary? Don't miss our pre-conference event!

Join to explore placed-based creative practices of researchers, content creators & game designers
🔹AI in the Street
🔹Pin the Tale
🔹Sounds of Birmingham
🔹Keynote by Oli Mould
digitalgeographiesrg.org/rgs-ibg-inte...

RGS-IBG International Annual Conference 2025: DGRG Pre-Conference Event

Exploring Place-based Creativity in a Digitally-Mediated World Tuesday 26th August 2025 – 12pm – 5pm Organisers: Dr Adam Michael Packer (University of Birmingham), Dr Nina Willment (Uni…

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Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social · Aug 25

There is also a Pin the Tale workshop you can take part in TOMORROW as part of the @dgrgrgs.bsky.social pre-conference event, 'Exploring place-based creativity in a digitally-mediated world', 12pm - 5.30pm.

www.rgs.org/research/ann...

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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · Aug 21

We warmly invite you to the Digital Geographies Research Group Annual Lecture at @rgsibg.bsky.social AC25 at @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Our inaugural lecture will be given by @ahjackman.bsky.social (@uniofreading.bsky.social) on ‘Feminist digital geographies in flight: Diversifying drone stories’

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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · Aug 21

Not long until our RGS pre-conference event: Exploring Place-based Creativity in a Digitally-Mediated World!

Featuring workshops + a keynote from @olimould.bsky.social
Psychedelics, multiverses and radical creativity: towards an aesthetics of the commons.

Register: www.rgs.org/research/ann...

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Psychedelics, multiverses and radical creativity: towards an aesthetics of the commons - Professor Oli Mould
This talk explores the potential of radical aesthetics to reawaken political imagination in the face of neoliberal capitalism’s cultural stranglehold and it's ushering in of the fascist horizon. Drawing on Mark Fisher’s unfinished project of Acid Communism, it argues that contemporary art and culture must reclaim the psychedelic, affective, and collective energies of the countercultural movements of the 1960s. This is not to indulge in nostalgia, but to rupture the present’s temporal and ideological capture by financialised capitalism. Central to this argument is the reconfiguration of time: whereas high-frequency trading and extractive logics sever the present from past and future, psychedelic aesthetics reanimate the now as a fertile commons, rich with collective memory and utopian possibility. I aim to critique the complicity of mainstream cultural institutions in sustaining capitalist realism and proposes an ‘aesthetics of the commons’ grounded in mutual aid, proletarianised cultural, digital and analogue production, and multiversal imaginaries. From pandemic-era art activism to the radical temporalities, psychedelic imaginaries and lucid dreaming, it seeks to chart an emergent, insurgent cultural politics that is not about building the future, but refusing capitalism’s version of it, and revelling instead in the shared abundance of the present.

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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · Aug 15

Planning your RGS annual conference itinerary? Don't miss our pre-conference event!

Join to explore placed-based creative practices of researchers, content creators & game designers
🔹AI in the Street
🔹Pin the Tale
🔹Sounds of Birmingham
🔹Keynote by Oli Mould
digitalgeographiesrg.org/rgs-ibg-inte...

RGS-IBG International Annual Conference 2025: DGRG Pre-Conference Event

Exploring Place-based Creativity in a Digitally-Mediated World Tuesday 26th August 2025 – 12pm – 5pm Organisers: Dr Adam Michael Packer (University of Birmingham), Dr Nina Willment (Uni…

digitalgeographiesrg.org

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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · Aug 15

Planning your RGS annual conference itinerary? Don't miss our pre-conference event!

Join to explore placed-based creative practices of researchers, content creators & game designers
🔹AI in the Street
🔹Pin the Tale
🔹Sounds of Birmingham
🔹Keynote by Oli Mould
digitalgeographiesrg.org/rgs-ibg-inte...

RGS-IBG International Annual Conference 2025: DGRG Pre-Conference Event

Exploring Place-based Creativity in a Digitally-Mediated World Tuesday 26th August 2025 – 12pm – 5pm Organisers: Dr Adam Michael Packer (University of Birmingham), Dr Nina Willment (Uni…

digitalgeographiesrg.org

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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · Aug 11

And finally, we are thrilled to be joined by Prof @olimould.bsky.social (Royal Holloway, University of London) who will be presenting the preconference keynote, and whose presentation is titled 'Psychedelics, multiverses and radical creativity: towards an aesthetics of the commons' - very exciting!

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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · Aug 11

Session 3 is a sonic exploration of a city in transformation, led by Holly Gowland (@unibirmingham.bsky.social). Through a series of spatial compositions, field recordings, and performance, the concert captures the evolving acoustic environments of Birmingham, presenting a tapestry of sounds.

Photo by Luke Matthews on Unsplash. The image shows the Birmingham city cityscape with the Bullring just left of centre in the background, the Rotunda to the left of that, and the Coach Station in the foreground. It is a gloomy, grey picture.

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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · Aug 11

Session 2 is an interactive exploration of the University of Birmingham campus through a location-based narrative-style game, led by Dr @jackalowe.bsky.social (University of West of England). 'Pin the Tale' is a location-based game about connecting with the world around you through stories.

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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · Aug 11

Session 1 is a screening & discussion of the ‘AI in the Street: Drone Observatory’, a short film created & directed by Dr @thaophan.bsky.social (Australian National University) & Jeni Lee. We will be joined online by Thao to discuss their work & the creative practices behind producing the film.

A landscape poster advertising the AI in the Street Drone Observatory short film about drone delivery trials in Logan, Australia. Text below the title and subtitles reads 'Directed by Thao Phan and Jeni Lee'. The image shows a drone deliverying a white package via a cord into the lawned yard of a house, with at least one person looking on from the porch. The logos for the Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University and the University of Warwick are in the righthand corner.

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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · Aug 11

Responding to the Chair's theme of 'Geographies of creativity/creative geographies', the pre-conference workshop explores a variety of contexts in which digital technologies mediate forms of creative practice, including explorative, playful & audio-visual forms of creativity.

Our sessions include:

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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · Aug 11

Attending RGS-IBG AC25? Before the main conference kicks off, please join us for our pre-conference workshop on Tuesday 26th August, 12pm-5pm, in the School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences.

Register here: www.rgs.org/research/ann...

@rgsibg.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Pre-conference activities - RGS

Find out more about activities taking place in the run-up to the conference.

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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · Jun 23

If you missed the symposium, check out #DGRGSymposium2025 for posts & keep an eye on our YouTube account where we'll be sharing recordings www.youtube.com/@digitalgeog...

And find out more about our @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social Research Group via digitalgeographiesrg.org

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The official YouTube channel of the Digital Geographies Research Group (DGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers).

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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · Jun 23

And a huge thank you to this year's incredible organising committee: @june-wang.bsky.social, @adammpacker.bsky.social, @tessosborne.bsky.social, Sammia Poveda, Harrison Smith, @samkinsley.uk, & @livfletcher.bsky.social, & all the session chairs!

2/3 #DGRGSymposium2025

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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · Jun 23

Last week was our Global Digital Geographies Symposium with speakers from China, India, Brazil, Vietnam, South Africa, Iran, the US, UK & more making it our most international symposium! Thank you to everyone who presented work, attended sessions, & discussed emerging ideas 1/3
#DGRGSymposium2025

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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · Jun 20

We're now having a very rich discussion between the panel speakers thinking about overlapping themes and interests including conceptualisations of space, bodies, and scales of power

#DGRGSymposium2025

Zoom screenshot: showing 5 speakers: left to right: Jack Lowe (chair) who is wearing a grey tshirt and white earphones with a blurred background, Azadeh Akbari who is wearing a white tshirt and has a blurred background, Norma Möllers who is wearing a black top and wearing glasses with a background partially showing a bookshelf, Sam Kinsley who is wearing a white shirt, glasses, and headphones with a blurred background, Mirjam de Bruijn who is wearing a dark blue top and with a bookshelf in the background.

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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · Jun 20

Next is Norma Möllers discussing state violence, digital & infrastructural practices via a focus on privatisation of data extraction in spaces of policing, borders, and war. Norma asks the question about the future of just data in a context of eroding digital sovereignty & racism
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