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Miriam Tedeschi
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Senior researcher, Faculty of Law, University of Turku, Finland. Docent geography. Westminster Law & Theory Lab Fellow. Affect-Posthumanism-Spatial Justice-Data Justice-Critical Urban Studies. PI of project AgenDa: https://www.utu.fi/agenda
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Maps have long been used as tools of colonial power. Now, Inuit maps of the Canadian Arctic are acting as tools of resistance. Also known as counter-mapping, a 2023 Nunatsiavut collaboration began as a way to bridge Inuit knowledge with Western research. buff.ly/J91euLi #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
These Inuit Maps Are Reimagining the Arctic
Counter-mapping projects are supporting Indigenous sovereignty in a shifting landscape
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November 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Agency in everyday Datafication: Short presentation of a recently started project published in Insights, online media of the Faculty of Law, University of Turku insights.utu.fi/presenting-t...
Presenting the Research Council of Finland-funded Academy Fellowship ‘Agency in everyday Datafication’ (AgenDa) - Insights
In September 2025, the Research Council of Finland (RCF)-funded (decision no. 368166) four-year Academy Fellowship ‘Agency in everyday Datafication’ (AgenDa)
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November 11, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Critical Drone Studies: Drones in Society, Politics, and Culture
25-26 June 2026 at University of Cambridge.

CFP Link: www.centrefordronesandculture.com/blog/confere...
A conference hosted by the Centre for Drones and Culture Sponsored by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Dates: Thursday 25 June - Friday 26 June 2026 Venue: Jesus College, University of Cambridge From agriculture to logistics, from journalism to delivery, from war to peacebuilding: drones continue to impact the ways we live, work, tell stories, relate to one another, and imagine the future. Debates continue to surround more risky drone developments, such as drones' integration into autonomous, Al-driven warfare, and their illicit use for drugs and weapons delivery into prisons. However, alternative deployments show promise, including unmanned delivery of medicines to remote geographies, surveying of humanitarian crises and environmental disasters, and the creation of fresh visual idioms in photography, cinematography, gaming, and other forms of entertainment. Although the types of drones used in these spaces can be quite different, they often involve imaginaries of situational awareness, technological autonomy, and "distant intimacy" - of humans being physically apart from another person, object, or milieu while robots remain relatively close, at times even enabling affective feelings and cognitive impressions of access and intimacy. While drone studies has tended to treat the use of drones in these spaces separately, the ambition of this conference is to engage in boundary work which moves the field towards a more heterogeneous, as well as normative, understanding of drones in society, politics, and culture: towards a critical drone studies that acknowledges both how individual motivations and creativity shape what a drone is and does, and how such engagements are also influenced by institutions and power. To this end, this is a reflexively interdisciplinary conference that encourages exploratory perspectives on drone pasts, presents, and futures, with a focus on probing the logics and narratives underpinning drone development, proliferation, and acceptance. Research on broad topics related but not limited to the following are very welcome: Drone wars: algorithmic and Al-enabled violence; drones as justified or non-justified forms of organized / disorganized violence; "new" drone wars, drone-on-drone warfare, Drones and civil liberties: policing; surveillance; predictive politics; protest; regulatory politics; atmospheric commons Drone humanitarianism: "Drones for Good"; drones in rescue and disaster relief; drone use by non-governmental organizations; drones, human rights, and accountability Drone ecologies: climate-human-technology relationships; conservation; biomimetics; environmental monitoring Drones and political economy: commercial drone applications; drone bases, supply chains, logistics, materialities Drone labour: lived experiences involving drones; drone praxis (including ethnographies and autoethnographies); drone technology and constructions of human ability / disability Drone aesthetics: artistic, speculative, and experimental imaginaries regarding unmanned and/or autonomous artefacts; popular drone culture including photography, marketing, filmmaking, drone racing, light shows Contributions from the humanities, social sciences, and beyond are very welcome, as are contributions from those working outside of academic institutions, including practitioner communities, non-profit organizations, government and policy-making organizations, think tanks, as well as artists and creators. Details for Proposals: There are three formats for presentations; please indicate which one you are applying for on the online application. Individual research presentations (max. 15 minutes) Panel presentations (max. 3 speakers x 15 minutes) Creative Showcase presentations: There is limited room for research-grounded creative contributions as part of the conference programming. At this time, we can only accommodate screen-based / touchscreen-based outputs. Deadline for Proposals: 12 January 2026
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Call for abstract extended for the World Planning Schools Congress 2026!
Final deadline: November 25th, 23:59 EET
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Final Week to Submit!
Don’t miss your chance to be part of the 6th World Planning Schools Congress (WPSC VI) — June 29 – July 3, 2026, in Espoo & Helsinki, Finland.
Faculty and students from GPEAN associations, including ACSP, are encouraged to submit abstracts by November 11, 2025.
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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A special issue here of the journal Agoriad entitled 'Thinking with fragments: The allure of the broken, discarded, and disjointed in urban space'.

Exploring what the 'fragment' might offer as a way of thinking about and writing the urban.

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Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory
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November 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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New article out, soon to be available in the Proceedings of the SEFI Annual Conference 2025 (www.sefi2025.eu): ‘Developing sustainability competences through a negotiation simulation role-playing game’.
With M. Marttila, M. Äijälä, myself, M. Shaw and J. Levanen

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November 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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New article out, open access, in Geoforum: ‘Data doubles co-constructing spatial practices: An empirical study’ doi.org/10.1016/j.ge....
With Johanna Hautala, Andrea Resmini @resmini.bsky.social, and myself.

The research is funded by the Research Council of Finland.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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New Special Section in Area:

'Digging into Data' adds to our 'Thinking with Methods' collection, with 6 papers reflecting on the messy process of qualitative empirical analysis.

Edited by @citiesandstuff.bsky.social & Lauren Wagner - available here⬇️

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A black tile publicising the new 'Digging into Data: Learning together from analysis experiences' Special Section in Area. There is a quote from Lauren Wagner & Alan Latham's (2025) introduction in the centre. It reads: "We need to open up the process of doing analysis so that it does not feel like a process of simply following an established procedure, turning the handle, and magically getting a good finished research paper or dissertation". A second black tile publicising the 'Digging into Data: Learning together from analysis experiences' Special Section in Area. Listed contributors include: Lauren Wagner, Alan Latham, Jennie Middleton, Marta Bivand Erdal, Andrew Barnfield, Geoff Bates, Amanda Rogers, Jennie Doyle & Katja Garson.
October 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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#Kant #philosophy #sublime #limit
October 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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New digital piece available in the latest issue of "The Lit Platform"! "Flight Diaries" is the latest iteration of my ongoing work in finding ways of visualising and poetically narrating my experiences as a glider pilot theliteraryplatform.com/stories/flig...

#art #poetry #digital #flight #data #dh
A screenshot from Flight Diaries. A traced glider flightpath over a map. A popup box with statistics relating to a particular moment of the flight. A poem at the bottom. "A little upwind of the field / a matter of luck / a gentle landing".
October 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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📢 Call for Papers – Cities, Urban Metabolism and the Polycrisis
A panel at the POLLEN 2026 conference (Barcelona, 29 June – 3 July) is looking for contributions in urban political ecology, infrastructure, and urban metabolism.
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October 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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"it may attempt too much, but it definitely delivers a lot of elements from which good, honest, reflexive urban scholarship is made": my review of Saila Maria's Transgressive City-Making and Governance is out on Housing Studies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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October 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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"This text draws on Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology to challenge assumptions about pathology, disability, & embodied experience. It rethinks the body not as a biological fact but as our way of having a world—culturally shaped, historically situated, & always lived."
October 18, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Gustave Doré’s Haunting Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy
Gustave Doré’s Haunting Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy
Inferno, Canto X: Many artists have attempted to illustrate Dante Alighieri's epic poem the Divine Comedy, but none have made such an indelible stamp on our collective imagination as the Frenchman ...
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October 12, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Celebrating the late Harvest moon in the Haiku Garden racarter.itch.io/haiku-garden

#bitsy #pixelart #games #gameDev #indieDev #harvestMoon
A pixel art garden. Spirits dance in the moonlight. A haiku on screen reads "harvest moon: / building up the fire: / autumn foliage".
October 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n
Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI
This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...
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October 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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A Complete Digitization of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus, the Largest Collection of His Drawings & Writings
A Complete Digitization of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus, the Largest Collection of His Drawings & Writings
No historical figure better fits the definition of “Renaissance man” than Leonardo da Vinci, but that term has become so overused as to become misleading. We use it to express mild surprise that one p...
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October 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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#OpenAccess in Area:

'Confluences of art and research: Reflections on curating an art exhibition as interdisciplinary method' by Helen Underhill & Cat Button

This paper reflects on 'curation-as-method' in relation to the 2024 'Confluences: Water and People' exhibition.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Helen Underhill & Cat Button (2025) entitled: 'Confluences of art and research: Reflections on curating an art exhibition as interdisciplinary method' with a black banner at the top. The exhibition ‘Confluences: Water and People’ drew together creative, participatory, community-focused research by partners in Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Malaysia, and the UK, as well as artists whose work connects with the River Tyne, its tributaries, people, and landscapes. This paper addresses this exhibition as a piece of research in its own right, aiming to answer two core research questions: (1) How do people connect with water? and (2) How can we develop new insights into the intangible values of water through exploring these relationships at both local (the specific) and global (the universal) scales? We explore the challenges of interdisciplinary work in relation to our curatorial-research process. The paper does not present or discuss the exhibition itself (we encourage readers to explore the online exhibition at: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/apl/events/water-and-people/), but rather the curatorial process that underpinned it, and what it meant as a piece of research. In doing so, we offer learnings for the development of curation-as-method within interdisciplinary research projects, particularly those with a physical sciences focus such as water security.
October 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Evening rays ☀️🌻☀️🌻

#photography #sunflower #autumn
A sunflower basks in the golden rays of evening on campus
September 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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House on the Water https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/house-on-the-water-1930
House on the Water
September 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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WORLD PLANNING SCHOOLS CONGRESS 2026: Call for abstracts, roundtable proposals and PhD workshop applications is open until November 11th, 23:59 EET (Eastern European Time)!

It will take place from June 29th to July 3rd, 2026, in Espoo & Helsinki, Finland.

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September 19, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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We are excited to announce the Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography at the University of Concepción, Chile, 17-20 March 2026. The call is now live @ www.clg.place on our conference page. Deadline for submissions 10 November 2025.
September 18, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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PhD position, fully funded, three years, based at the Faculty of Law, University of Turku (Finland), within the Research Council of Finland-funded project ‘Agency in everyday Datafication’ (AgenDa) (www.utu.fi/agenda).

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Doctoral Researcher within the Research Council of Finland-funded project Agency in everyday Datafication (AgenDa)
The Faculty of Law, University of Turku invites applications for the position of Doctoral Researcher in Law (1 August 2026 – 31 August 2029).Job description The doctoral researcher will use design met...
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September 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and the language of silence | By Steven Bindeman

We think we communicate and understand most deeply using language. But how can we say what words cannot express? Silence. iai.tv/articles/wit... #philosophy ##silence #Heidegger #Wittgenstein #philsky
Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and the language of silence | Steven Bindeman
We think we communicate and understand most deeply using language. But how can we say what words cannot express? Silence. Drawing on Wittgenstein and Heidegger, philosopher Steven Bindeman argues that...
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September 13, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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I always say I'm done, but one truly final update - a new astronomical library for calculating equinoxes, solstices, and positions of sun and moon, for as long as this piece exists. A final summer night before the garden switches over to autumn (or vice-versa!) racarter.itch.io/haiku-garden
A screenshot of a pixel art garden at night. A haiku reads "moon? blossoms? / offering his dragon lights, / for the cottage".
August 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM