What would you say if you had 5 minutes to talk to Matt Damon about the “global water crisis”?

Our conversation with Filippo Menga about Thirst published this year by @versobooks.bsky.social is now available on our Soundcloud channel and most podcast platforms.

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The first in our new TTiN podcast series of interviews with academics and artists working on infrastructure is now live!

In this episode, Nicola Kirkby discusses her new book, Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel. Listen on your usual podcast platform!

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And our third and final online event of the term assembles a diverse panel of academics, practitioners, and activists to reflect on what gentrification means today and how we can remake cities without displacing residents. Sign up below.

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Our second session of the term will explore the global water crisis through discussion of Filippo Menga’s new book, Thirst (Verso 2025), with responses from Naho Mirumachi and Julie Froud

Join us online, sign up here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

How can art and storytelling help us to make sense of infrastructures? Join us online at lunchtime on Wed 29 Oct for our first session of the new academic year with visual artist, urban walker, and comics creator Giada Peterle. Sign up below! www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

We’re midway through our “Power Grids” exhibition at @britishacademy.bsky.social where we’re discussing the experience of failing infrastructure, how green energy can empower communities, and the rewards of using comics co-creation as a research method.

Join us online next week for our lunchtime panel with Alex Tickell (OU) to launch his new book, City Fictions of the New India: Literature, Infrastructure, Citizenship, in conversation with Ruvani Ranasinha (KCL) and David Johnson (OU).

Register below

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The day will conclude with a collaborative session led by visual artist Giada Peterle, in which participants will co-produce a zine that reimagines the infrastructures of radical knowledge production.

Panel 2: Reimagining Research connects papers introducing alternative ways of making knowledge with and about communities beyond the university.

Panel 3: Utopia & Repair connects papers interested in the future of the university, through small acts of salvage and much larger speculative designs.

The day will begin with a plenary talk by Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya.

Panel 1: University Limits connects papers exploring different dimensions of the current crisis in universities, from far right and class politics to disciplinary architecture, rigidifying assessment, and distrust in unions.

We now have a programme for KNOWING INFRASTRUCTURES in and beyond the neoliberal university.

This an open workshop and all are welcome. Please register to receive the circulated pre-reading.

Full programme and registration link is available here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Interested to learn more? You can read about the workshops’ goals here!

Have you heard we’re hosting comics making workshops for #communityenergy workers and users? 🤩 You can apply using the link here: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... Here’s some more info ⬇️

Call for papers announcement! We are hosting an experimental workshop on knowledge production in university infrastructures and hope you will join us in London this June!

Are you involved in community energy? Know someone who is? We want to hear from you!

We are looking for people to come co-create comics about community energy on Fri 9 May (London) & Sat 10 May (Manchester).

We will cover travel expenses if you need to come from further afield! #communityenergy

Our next TTiN event!

"Loving Infrastructures: Holding Onto the Ordinary"
with Rhys Williams, Director of the Infrastructure Humanities Group

5.30pm, Thursday 27 Feb – all welcome, registration and more details at this link: www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Registration now open for our next event, "Building Stories Around Infrastructure", with 3 great panellists:

@zackpolanski.bsky.social, Deputy Leader @TheGreenParty
@SharriPlonski, co-creator of Material Crimes @survivesocpod
Joel De Mowbray, founder @YesMakeLdn

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