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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 19h

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...

Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 3d

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...

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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · Jul 5

TTiN is now on Apple Podcasts! Check out our talks and conversations from 2024-25 and give us a follow and a rating!

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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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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · Jun 21

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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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · Jun 21

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.

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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · Jun 16

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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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · May 21

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:
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · May 21

Huzzah! Excited to participate in this event! Kudos @drdomdavies.bsky.social & team

Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · May 21

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...

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Comics & AI: Critical Prompts @comicsandai.org · May 21

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

Interesting event!

Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · May 21

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...

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Erdem Avşar @erdemavsar.bsky.social · May 21

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

Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · May 21

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...

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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · May 21

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.

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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · May 21

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.

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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · May 21

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.

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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · May 21

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...

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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · Apr 30

Still a couple of days left!

Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · Apr 2

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!

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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · Apr 25

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

Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · Apr 2

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!

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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · Apr 8

Have you heard we’re hosting comics making workshops for #communityenergy workers and users? 🤩 You can apply using the link here: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... Here’s some more info ⬇️

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InfraNorth: Building Arctic Futures @infranortherc.bsky.social · Apr 4

𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟮𝟭, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

In response to several requests, we have extended our #CfP deadline. Thanks to those who have already submitted and, if you haven’t done so yet, there’s still time—we look forward to your proposals!

🔗 infranorth.eu/news/call-fo... @univie.ac.at

Call for Papers “Beyond Infrastructure? (Un-)built Environments in the Anthropocene” - InfraNorth

International Conference, September 22 - 24, 2025, at the University of Vienna. Extended deadline for submissions: April 21, 2025. Infrastructure is often seen as solid, fixed, and inevitable while sh...

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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · Apr 8

Interested to learn more? You can read about the workshops’ goals here!

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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · Apr 8

Have you heard we’re hosting comics making workshops for #communityenergy workers and users? 🤩 You can apply using the link here: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... Here’s some more info ⬇️

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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · Apr 7

If you’re interested in our upcoming workshop on #communityenergy but unsure if your work ‘counts’ as community energy, the great folks at @communityenergyldn.bsky.social have written an introduction to community energy on their Instagram! www.instagram.com/p/DDXwji0os4...

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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · Apr 5

Are you involved in community energy? Know someone who is?

Come along to our comics co-creation workshops to share your experiences and learn from others. No artistic expertise required!

Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · Mar 20

Are you involved in community energy? Know someone who is? We want to hear from you!

We are looking for people to come co-create comics about community energy on Fri 9 May (London) & Sat 10 May (Manchester).

We will cover travel expenses if you need to come from further afield!

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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · Apr 2

CFP: Knowing Infrastructures in and beyond the neoliberal university

We are seeking short position papers to underpin discussion groups on radical knowledge production

With plenary talk from Gargi Bhattacharyya and a creative practice session with Giada Peterle

Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · Apr 2

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!

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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · Apr 2

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!

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Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · Mar 20

These workshops will use comics co-creation to engage in collaborative research into the lived experiences of green energy infrastructure and visualise these stories collectively.