notes & essays
On technology, place, governance, and the slow work of paying attention.
All I can do is watch and wonder and make a video player.
At a presentation at the American Association of Geography (AAG) conference in San Francisco I spoke on my pivot from platform urbanism to civic AI enablement.
How I'm thinking about AI sovereignty.
What kinds of intelligences and sense-making capabilities do we need to cultivate in ourselves, as we learn to adapt to these newer kinds of agencies?.
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.
Examining the emergence of civic AI as a framework for civic learning and community health
Returning to the ideas behind my doctoral work — ambient sound archives, mobile listening experiences, and contested spatial histories as experimental public history.
A workshop with Professor Annette Markham on emergent states of attentional curation