Month: February 2016

Protest Memorialisation: Should we Protect ‘The Heygate Arch’?

February 4, 2016

After our involvement in the Public Archaeology 2015 Project (Narratives and Counter-Narratives – A Line Through Contemporary London), Oli Mould (Royal Holloway) and I got talking about the protest potential of protecting one of the remaining fragments of the Heygate estate, an amputated concrete footbridge, and turning it into a memorial to create, of sorts, … More Protest Memorialisation: Should we Protect ‘The Heygate Arch’?

Mapping Maps and Gaps: A Critical Digital Cartography of the ‘Mediterranean Refugee Crisis’

February 2, 2016

Last month I attended the 2016 Digital Methods Initiative Winter School led by Richard Rogers and his team at the University of Amsterdam. Organised in the format of a data sprint the event saw participants attend a day of keynote talks presented by the likes of, among others, Lilie Chouliaraki, Mathieu Jacomy, Carolin Gerlitz and … More Mapping Maps and Gaps: A Critical Digital Cartography of the ‘Mediterranean Refugee Crisis’