On technology, place, governance, and the slow work of paying attention.
On Dario Amodei's 'Adolescence of Technology' essay and what the Anthropic-Pentagon standoff reveals about a collision between emergent AI sovereignty and the Westphalian state.
How we built a six-movement workshop format grounded in Indigenous data sovereignty and Country-centred methods — and what happened when we ran it.
Notes on designing a STORYBOX program around women's perceptions of safety in public spaces — for the NSW Safer Cities grant.
Deploying STORYBOX at the Inner West Museum of Rugby League — QR codes, Cloudflare Workers, and what civic storytelling actually looks like when it's live.
Early notes on a book structured as topographical excavation — six modes of encounter (listening, reading, installing, diagnosing, gathering, letting go) across twenty years of work.
Tracing the arc from my 2019 monograph to the ARC Future Fellowship — what changed, what persists, and why place-based governance matters more than ever.
A concept for AI-assisted evaluation methodology to track cross-agency investment in remote Indigenous communities — First Nations-led, place-centred.
Building a workshop around AI's material footprint — e-waste, energy, water — and what circular economy storytelling could look like.
Why local governments aren't ready for AI — and a framework for assessing civic AI readiness that starts with place rather than procurement.
Returning to the ideas behind my doctoral work — ambient sound archives, mobile listening experiences, and contested spatial histories as experimental public history.