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Thinking through infrastructure – energy, transport, water, waste, housing, health – with methods from the arts, humanities, & social sciences. https://researchcentres.citystgeorges.ac.uk/thinking-through-infrastructure-network
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Education Podcast · A network for academics, policy makers, & community organizers who work to understand & address the social, political, & cultural impacts of infrastructure. Follow @TTinfraNetwork
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What would you say if you had 5 minutes to talk to Matt Damon about the “global water crisis”?

Our conversation with Filippo Menga about Thirst published this year by @versobooks.bsky.social is now available on our Soundcloud channel and most podcast platforms.

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November 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Our next lunchtime seminar is online on Friday 28 Nov, with an exciting panel of academics, journalists, policy makers, and community organisers discussing what gentrification looks like in the 21st-century. How do you regenerate place without displacing communities?
And our third and final online event of the term assembles a diverse panel of academics, practitioners, and activists to reflect on what gentrification means today and how we can remake cities without displacing residents. Sign up below.

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November 19, 2025 at 11:34 AM
It was such a pleasure to chat with @julietjfall.bsky.social about her recent book Along the Line, which explores border infrastructure through graphic narrative.

For the new TTiN series of conversations with academics and artists working on infrastructure.

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Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography, with Juliet Fall
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November 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Join us next week for a session on global water infrastructure with Filippo Menga & others - online Tuesday 17 Nov at 12pm GMT. Link below
Our second session of the term will explore the global water crisis through discussion of Filippo Menga’s new book, Thirst (Verso 2025), with responses from Naho Mirumachi and Julie Froud

Join us online, sign up here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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I just listened to an excellent presentation on comics & infrastructure by Dr Giada Peterle, part of online talks organised by @drdomdavies.bsky.social within @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social. Such a creative, inspiring & generous scholar! (Her drawings on my book from gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...)
October 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
We start in just over an hour. Still spaces to join!
This Wednesday we’ll be talking drawing, walking, and writing infrastructure with Giada Peterle. Join us at lunchtime for this online seminar by registering here www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
October 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
This Wednesday we’ll be talking drawing, walking, and writing infrastructure with Giada Peterle. Join us at lunchtime for this online seminar by registering here www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
October 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
The first in our new TTiN podcast series of interviews with academics and artists working on infrastructure is now live!

In this episode, Nicola Kirkby discusses her new book, Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel. Listen on your usual podcast platform!

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October 23, 2025 at 4:08 AM
And our third and final online event of the term assembles a diverse panel of academics, practitioners, and activists to reflect on what gentrification means today and how we can remake cities without displacing residents. Sign up below.

www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
October 16, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Our second session of the term will explore the global water crisis through discussion of Filippo Menga’s new book, Thirst (Verso 2025), with responses from Naho Mirumachi and Julie Froud

Join us online, sign up here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
October 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
How can art and storytelling help us to make sense of infrastructures? Join us online at lunchtime on Wed 29 Oct for our first session of the new academic year with visual artist, urban walker, and comics creator Giada Peterle. Sign up below! www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
October 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
TTiN is now on Apple Podcasts! Check out our talks and conversations from 2024-25 and give us a follow and a rating!

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Thinking Through Infrastructure Network
Education Podcast · A network for academics, policy makers, & community organizers who work to understand & address the social, political, & cultural impacts of infrastructure. Follow @TTinfraNetwork
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July 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
We’ve spoken to hundreds of people but there’s still time to come down and get involved today. More details at the link below. Warning - you may be asked to do some drawing!

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The British Academy Summer Showcase
Every year we throw open our doors for the British Academy’s annual Summer Showcase, a free festival of ideas for curious minds. Meet the researchers shaping our world through their pioneering social ...
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June 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
We’re midway through our “Power Grids” exhibition at @britishacademy.bsky.social where we’re discussing the experience of failing infrastructure, how green energy can empower communities, and the rewards of using comics co-creation as a research method.
June 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Join us online next week for our lunchtime panel with Alex Tickell (OU) to launch his new book, City Fictions of the New India: Literature, Infrastructure, Citizenship, in conversation with Ruvani Ranasinha (KCL) and David Johnson (OU).

Register below

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June 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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KNOWING INFRASTRUCTURES in and beyond the neoliberal university – Friday 13 June

How do we reorganise our knowledge infrastructures in the service of collective liberation? Where is the future of radical knowledge production?

Programme below, register here:
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May 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Huzzah! Excited to participate in this event! Kudos @drdomdavies.bsky.social & team
We now have a programme for KNOWING INFRASTRUCTURES in and beyond the neoliberal university.

This an open workshop and all are welcome. Please register to receive the circulated pre-reading.

Full programme and registration link is available here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
May 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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"How do we reorganise our knowledge infrastructures in the service of collective liberation? Where is the future of radical knowledge production?"

Interesting event!
We now have a programme for KNOWING INFRASTRUCTURES in and beyond the neoliberal university.

This an open workshop and all are welcome. Please register to receive the circulated pre-reading.

Full programme and registration link is available here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
May 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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The @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social's Knowing Infrastructures workshop programme is here! Delighted to be part of this - come and join us on 13 June. Special thanks to @drdomdavies.bsky.social
We now have a programme for KNOWING INFRASTRUCTURES in and beyond the neoliberal university.

This an open workshop and all are welcome. Please register to receive the circulated pre-reading.

Full programme and registration link is available here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
May 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The day will conclude with a collaborative session led by visual artist Giada Peterle, in which participants will co-produce a zine that reimagines the infrastructures of radical knowledge production.
May 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Panel 2: Reimagining Research connects papers introducing alternative ways of making knowledge with and about communities beyond the university.

Panel 3: Utopia & Repair connects papers interested in the future of the university, through small acts of salvage and much larger speculative designs.
May 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The day will begin with a plenary talk by Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya.

Panel 1: University Limits connects papers exploring different dimensions of the current crisis in universities, from far right and class politics to disciplinary architecture, rigidifying assessment, and distrust in unions.
May 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
We now have a programme for KNOWING INFRASTRUCTURES in and beyond the neoliberal university.

This an open workshop and all are welcome. Please register to receive the circulated pre-reading.

Full programme and registration link is available here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
May 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Still a couple of days left!
Call for papers announcement! We are hosting an experimental workshop on knowledge production in university infrastructures and hope you will join us in London this June!
April 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Call for papers alert!

1 week left to submit an abstract for this workshop on the infrastructures of knowledge production in and beyond the university

On Friday 13 June, with Gargi Bhattacharyya and Giada Peterle
Call for papers announcement! We are hosting an experimental workshop on knowledge production in university infrastructures and hope you will join us in London this June!
April 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM