1. 2024

    On infrastructural civics

    InfraPublics, Aarhus University

    On whether we have a strong sense of infrastructural civics at all, the historical resonances between digital communication and participatory civics, and the difficulty of active citizenship at a planetary scale.

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  2. 2022

    Urbanist Dr Sarah Barns

    Wide Open Air Exchange, hosted by Christine Gallagher, also broadcast on 2SER

    On early influences and the thinking behind an interdisciplinary practice sitting across academic research, public art and creative practice, and policy and strategy. Published 22 August 2022.

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  3. 2021
  4. 2020

    Let’s get contact tracing right

    Inside Story

    How we build these apps is how we are building our digital future. Published 23 April 2020.

  5. 2020

    The end of the city? No, not quite

    Inside Story

    Published 16 September 2020.

  6. 2019

    You, me, data and the city

    Inside Story, with the Copyright Agency. Republished in The Canberra Times

    Is the data-rich city taking on a life of its own? Published 18 December 2019.

  7. 2018

    Reimagining Parramatta: a place to discover Australia’s many stories

    Sarah Barns & Phillip Mar · The Conversation

    Published 29 July 2018.

  8. 2018

    Reimagining Parramatta: Negotiating the Arrival of Australia's Next Great City

    Sarah Barns & Phillip Mar · Griffith Review 61: Who We Are, ed. Julianne Schultz (Text Publishing)

    Published as Re-imagining Parramatta. Griffith Review requires a login for the full text; a shorter version was republished by The Conversation.

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  9. 2017

    Can a tech company build a city? Ask Google

    The Conversation

    Published 19 November 2017.

  10. 2017

    From Smart Cities 1.0 to 2.0: it’s not (only) about the tech

    Sarah Barns, Donald McNeill, Ellie Cosgrave & Michele Acuto · The Conversation

    Published 3 April 2017.

  11. 2017
  12. 2016

    Sydney’s Grey Makeover: How the city became a downsizer’s wonderland

    The Sydney Morning Herald

    Published 28 November 2016.

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  13. 2016

    What might Jane Jacobs say about smart cities?

    The Conversation

    Published 27 May 2016.

  14. 2014

    Open data and the G20: the value is there to share

    The Conversation

    Published 18 June 2014.

  15. 2014

    Sounds Different: Listening to the City

    The Architectural Review

    On the different auditory spaces of the modern city, including those produced by smartphones, and what they reveal about the experience of urbanisation and technological modernisation.

    Essay
  16. 2013

    Appy-Land or Geekistan? The open questions of Open Data

    The Conversation

    Published 2 December 2013.

  17. 2007

    Diversions or diversity in a world of limitless connectivity?

    Metro Magazine

    April 2007.

    Essay
  18. 2006

    Design Policy Gets Down to Business

    Inside, Australian Design Review

    Two-part feature series, June and September 2006.

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