usman haque
@uah.bsky.social
I make • I do • I make do
architect / artist / composer
design/architecture/cities/networked urbanism
HAQUE TAN • @HAQUETAN.bsky.social
🐘 @uah@mastodon.social
https://haque.co.uk/
https://haquetan.com/
https://uah.haque.co.uk/
https://umbrellium.co.uk/
architect / artist / composer
design/architecture/cities/networked urbanism
HAQUE TAN • @HAQUETAN.bsky.social
🐘 @uah@mastodon.social
https://haque.co.uk/
https://haquetan.com/
https://uah.haque.co.uk/
https://umbrellium.co.uk/
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Many thanks to everyone who joined us for the finale 𝗛𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗻𝗲𝘆’𝘀 𝗟𝗼𝘄 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘁 at Hackney Town Hall last Friday! We welcomed 100 people from different walks of life - scientists, environmentalists, teachers, students, families, civil servants, councillors & mayor...
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Many thanks to everyone who joined us for the finale 𝗛𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗻𝗲𝘆’𝘀 𝗟𝗼𝘄 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘁 at Hackney Town Hall last Friday! We welcomed 100 people from different walks of life - scientists, environmentalists, teachers, students, families, civil servants, councillors & mayor...
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There’s a week left to visit 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 at Hackney Service Centre, come and see it before it closes on 𝟲𝘁𝗵 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿!
𝗛𝗮𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 explores the many ways we can tackle the climate crisis through our own actions – both individually and collectively.
𝗛𝗮𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 explores the many ways we can tackle the climate crisis through our own actions – both individually and collectively.
October 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
There’s a week left to visit 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 at Hackney Service Centre, come and see it before it closes on 𝟲𝘁𝗵 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿!
𝗛𝗮𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 explores the many ways we can tackle the climate crisis through our own actions – both individually and collectively.
𝗛𝗮𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 explores the many ways we can tackle the climate crisis through our own actions – both individually and collectively.
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Excited to announce my new exhibition Harvesting Climate Action in Hackney! Open to the public at Hackney Service Centre from 1 Oct - 6 Nov 2025. More info visit - lowcarbon.lingql.com/chinatown#ha...
October 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Excited to announce my new exhibition Harvesting Climate Action in Hackney! Open to the public at Hackney Service Centre from 1 Oct - 6 Nov 2025. More info visit - lowcarbon.lingql.com/chinatown#ha...
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Playing Democracy 2.0 is coming to Ars Electronica Festival 2025! Super stoked to be showing it at Ars Electronica, with a work that is deeply personal and explores many of my interests in participation and the politics of it. The work will be presented as part of Ars Electronica Platform Europe.
August 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Playing Democracy 2.0 is coming to Ars Electronica Festival 2025! Super stoked to be showing it at Ars Electronica, with a work that is deeply personal and explores many of my interests in participation and the politics of it. The work will be presented as part of Ars Electronica Platform Europe.
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📣Artists, creative producers and cultural orgs📣
I'm working with @artscouncilengland.bsky.social and @theaudienceagency.bsky.social to understand the value of R&D and innovation in arts and culture. If you make or present artistic and creative work, pls spend 10 mins filling out this survey 👇
I'm working with @artscouncilengland.bsky.social and @theaudienceagency.bsky.social to understand the value of R&D and innovation in arts and culture. If you make or present artistic and creative work, pls spend 10 mins filling out this survey 👇
June 13, 2025 at 8:35 AM
📣Artists, creative producers and cultural orgs📣
I'm working with @artscouncilengland.bsky.social and @theaudienceagency.bsky.social to understand the value of R&D and innovation in arts and culture. If you make or present artistic and creative work, pls spend 10 mins filling out this survey 👇
I'm working with @artscouncilengland.bsky.social and @theaudienceagency.bsky.social to understand the value of R&D and innovation in arts and culture. If you make or present artistic and creative work, pls spend 10 mins filling out this survey 👇
love this overview of Honor's work; a narrative arc two decades long that lands so elegantly it might seem carefully worked out in advance; yet in a practice of art+research the roles of intuition/curiosity/serendipity/holding nerve when things don't _yet_ make sense!/ is most intriguing of all!
From neutrino detectors to radio interferometers, these instruments reshape cognition itself.
I trace this through past curatorial work, artistic practice, and a long-standing fascination with astronomy and philosophy.
honorharger.wordpress.com/2025/06/08/t...
I trace this through past curatorial work, artistic practice, and a long-standing fascination with astronomy and philosophy.
honorharger.wordpress.com/2025/06/08/t...
Towards a Cognitive Astronomy
Towards a Cognitive Astronomy: How Observing the Universe Extends the Mind By Honor Harger 8 June 2025 I think a lot about astronomy. It’s embedded in how I work, think, and pay attention to the wo…
honorharger.wordpress.com
June 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
love this overview of Honor's work; a narrative arc two decades long that lands so elegantly it might seem carefully worked out in advance; yet in a practice of art+research the roles of intuition/curiosity/serendipity/holding nerve when things don't _yet_ make sense!/ is most intriguing of all!
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Design and Disability opens today at the V&A! We’re so happy to share it with you all. Disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent people and their companions go free. www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/...
June 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Design and Disability opens today at the V&A! We’re so happy to share it with you all. Disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent people and their companions go free. www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/...
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An open letter to the Equality and Human Rights Commission from the Culture Sector, in solidarity with Trans, Nonbinary and Intersex communities. Sign your name here: tinyurl.com/ehrcletter Please share widely, and if you are not able to sign for your organisation, please share with someone who can
April 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM
An open letter to the Equality and Human Rights Commission from the Culture Sector, in solidarity with Trans, Nonbinary and Intersex communities. Sign your name here: tinyurl.com/ehrcletter Please share widely, and if you are not able to sign for your organisation, please share with someone who can
Yesterday was the 10-year anniversary of the day my friend Sabeen was killed. For those that didn't know her -- I'm so sorry you didn't, if she were around today, amongst all of... ~this~... she would have helped find meaning & hope -- this is such a lovely remembrance:
www.dawn.com/news/1906231
www.dawn.com/news/1906231
Our friend Sabeen
Sabeen was someone this country needed then and now.
www.dawn.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Yesterday was the 10-year anniversary of the day my friend Sabeen was killed. For those that didn't know her -- I'm so sorry you didn't, if she were around today, amongst all of... ~this~... she would have helped find meaning & hope -- this is such a lovely remembrance:
www.dawn.com/news/1906231
www.dawn.com/news/1906231
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SXSW is coming to London from 2-7th June, and its exactly as you might expect: Expensive, AI, NFTs.
I propose FKFJ: The exact opposite of SXSW, on the same dates.
An distributed affordable community thing across London, about technology, music, and art.
No central org. Just put on an event.
Yes?
I propose FKFJ: The exact opposite of SXSW, on the same dates.
An distributed affordable community thing across London, about technology, music, and art.
No central org. Just put on an event.
Yes?
April 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
SXSW is coming to London from 2-7th June, and its exactly as you might expect: Expensive, AI, NFTs.
I propose FKFJ: The exact opposite of SXSW, on the same dates.
An distributed affordable community thing across London, about technology, music, and art.
No central org. Just put on an event.
Yes?
I propose FKFJ: The exact opposite of SXSW, on the same dates.
An distributed affordable community thing across London, about technology, music, and art.
No central org. Just put on an event.
Yes?
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here's the planetary-scale system diagram for our new permanent more-than-human landscape intervention installing in London soon... stay tuned
March 15, 2025 at 11:17 AM
here's the planetary-scale system diagram for our new permanent more-than-human landscape intervention installing in London soon... stay tuned
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Which means we are recruiting! Are you Watershed’s Director of Regenerative Futures? Join our Exec team and lead this exciting project. £57k Full time but we welcome conversations about flexible working www.watershed.co.uk/jobs-opportu...
Director of Regenerative Futures
The role will lead Watershed Wild and Generous, working with our trustees, staff, stakeholders, communities and neighbours to deliver a sustainable, equitable and values-driven building and public spa...
www.watershed.co.uk
December 16, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Which means we are recruiting! Are you Watershed’s Director of Regenerative Futures? Join our Exec team and lead this exciting project. £57k Full time but we welcome conversations about flexible working www.watershed.co.uk/jobs-opportu...
oh my. the joy of receiving a remittance advice. 🎉🎉🎉
November 27, 2024 at 1:18 PM
oh my. the joy of receiving a remittance advice. 🎉🎉🎉
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I wrote an article for The Modern House where I put together ideas showing how the Energy Performance Certificates could be even more useful to people looking for a new home.
Homes that are more efficient are also cheaper to run, and will have lower CO2 emissions. 🧵
Homes that are more efficient are also cheaper to run, and will have lower CO2 emissions. 🧵
November 25, 2024 at 12:26 PM
I wrote an article for The Modern House where I put together ideas showing how the Energy Performance Certificates could be even more useful to people looking for a new home.
Homes that are more efficient are also cheaper to run, and will have lower CO2 emissions. 🧵
Homes that are more efficient are also cheaper to run, and will have lower CO2 emissions. 🧵
"... I write about the beauty, personhood, intelligence and vitality of all beings on this Earth. In Gaza and the West Bank, and now in Lebanon, they are burning the olive groves... Genocide is ecocide; ecocide is genocide."
@jamesbridle.bsky.social in
artreview.com/james-bridle...
@jamesbridle.bsky.social in
artreview.com/james-bridle...
James Bridle: ‘The Denial of Genocide Is on the March Everywhere’
The artist addresses the ‘duty of institutions to act ethically’
artreview.com
November 19, 2024 at 9:56 PM
"... I write about the beauty, personhood, intelligence and vitality of all beings on this Earth. In Gaza and the West Bank, and now in Lebanon, they are burning the olive groves... Genocide is ecocide; ecocide is genocide."
@jamesbridle.bsky.social in
artreview.com/james-bridle...
@jamesbridle.bsky.social in
artreview.com/james-bridle...
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One time Ramsey was talking about anarchism while doing the dishes and I asked if he was quoting "the dish-possessed" and he has never let me forget it
October 11, 2024 at 8:12 PM
One time Ramsey was talking about anarchism while doing the dishes and I asked if he was quoting "the dish-possessed" and he has never let me forget it
current status: about to get in a massive argument with ChatGPT about code // aka the 2024 equivalent of 'someone is wrong on the internet'
September 25, 2024 at 2:05 PM
current status: about to get in a massive argument with ChatGPT about code // aka the 2024 equivalent of 'someone is wrong on the internet'
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My recent keynote from The Conference, 'How To See What Isn't There' is up! On experiencing complex technical systems, the atomised and partial views of AI and platforms, and in-camera SFX (with yelling) videos.theconference.se/georgina-vos...
Georgina Voss – How To See What's Not There
Are we in control of technological megasystems, or are they in fact controlling us? By taking on a critical approach to modern technology, Georgina Voss...
videos.theconference.se
September 7, 2024 at 7:37 AM
My recent keynote from The Conference, 'How To See What Isn't There' is up! On experiencing complex technical systems, the atomised and partial views of AI and platforms, and in-camera SFX (with yelling) videos.theconference.se/georgina-vos...
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It’s beautiful. youtu.be/e-9FESI63Ws
September 5, 2024 at 11:27 AM
It’s beautiful. youtu.be/e-9FESI63Ws
"infrastructure is woke technology" is the spoiler alert for 2023 ....
Anyone looking at the HS2 clusterfuck and wondering what?? and why??? would do very well to pre-order 'How Infrastructure Works' by Deb Chachra out in the UK next month (spoilers: infrastructure is woke technology)
October 5, 2023 at 11:49 AM
"infrastructure is woke technology" is the spoiler alert for 2023 ....
this is such a brilliant idea, lucky Bristol to have it in your neighborhood!
Throughout the last 40 years, Watershed has continued to reinvent and embrace what it means to be a media centre. So am delighted to be sharing our thinking around Undershed - a new immersive gallery space downstairs in our building set to launch next year. www.watershed.co.uk/articles/und...
Undershed - an immersive gallery for Watershed
Clare Reddington, Watershed's CEO talks about the plans for Undershed - a new immersive gallery opening downstairs in Watershed in Spring 2024.
www.watershed.co.uk
October 5, 2023 at 11:47 AM
this is such a brilliant idea, lucky Bristol to have it in your neighborhood!
Looking for someone to video document a 2 hour workshop in Porto, Portugal this Saturday morning, anyone who's based in Porto available or can recommend? (please share) Ling and I are putting together a More-Than-Human Citizen Assembly...
September 19, 2023 at 11:18 AM
Looking for someone to video document a 2 hour workshop in Porto, Portugal this Saturday morning, anyone who's based in Porto available or can recommend? (please share) Ling and I are putting together a More-Than-Human Citizen Assembly...