Dustbox
Exhibition of the Citizen Sense Dustboxes 1.0 and 2.0 for “Climate Care: Reimagining Shared Planetary Futures” (a MAK exhibition), as part of the Vienna Biennale for Change 2021, “Planet Love” (28 May to 3 October)
Citizen Infrastructures
Presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), lunchtime seminar for policy fellows, University of Cambridge, UK (9 June)
Phyto-Sensor Toolkit: Cultivating the Swamps of Urban Air
Presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the performative book pre-launch, “Terrestrial University: Swamps and the New Imagination,” ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (13 May)
Vegetal Sensors: How to Construct Air Quality Gardens
Myles H. Thaler Memorial Lecture by Jennifer Gabrys, School of Architecture, University of Virginia, USA (11 March)
Particle Stories
Presentation and panel contribution by Jennifer Gabrys for The Long 2020 collection, Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (19 February)
Citizen Engagement in Air Pollution: Transforming Social, Scientific and Technical Research
Presentation and panel discussion by Jennifer Gabrys for the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Social Research and Air Quality workshop (26 January)
AirKit: A Comprehensive Citizen-Sensing Toolkit
Presentation by Joanne Armitage for “Transforming Citizen Sensing” conference, Waag, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (10 December). Conference summary available here.
From Citizen Sensing to Citizen Design
Presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “Green Recovery: Citizen Science for Environmental Policymaking,” joint workshop with UNEP Argentina and Centre for Science and Policy (CSAP), University of Cambridge, UK (29 October)
How to Do Things with Sensors
Keynote presentation by Jennifer Gabrys and “Conversation on Ecology and Ethics” for “Distributed Proximities,” Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), USA (26 October)
Citizen Data: From Monitoring to Justice
Presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3) Virtual Symposium, University of Cambridge, UK (21 October)
Citizen Initiatives for Environmental Urban Sensing
ERC grantee presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “Turning Contemporary Cities into Smart, Interactive and Safe Urban Living,” Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF), Trieste, Italy (4 September)
Programming the Planet and Reconfiguring Sensing
Presentation and seminar discussion of Program Earth by Jennifer Gabrys for the Cambridge Digital Humanities “Open Series,” University of Cambridge, UK (1 July)
Expertise and Urban Air Pollution
Presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the “Citizen Science” seminar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, UK (11 June)
Citizen Science
Presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) Annual Conference, University of Cambridge, UK (28 May)
From Citizen Sensing to Citizen Sciences
Contribution by Jennifer Gabrys to Citizen Science workshop, Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), University of Cambridge, UK (24-25 March)
Sensing Practices
Seminar presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for SENSING: The Knowledge of Sensitive Media research group, Potsdam University, Germany (31 January)
Atmospheric Citizens: How to Make Breathable Worlds
Public Lecture by Jennifer Gabrys for the IKKM Senior Fellows residency program Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie, Weimar, Germany (29 January)
Citizen Sensing and Practices of World-Making
Presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the IKKM Laboratory, as part of the Senior Fellows residency, Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie, Weimar, Germany (17 January)
Sensors, Citizens and Sustainability: Sensing Practices and Data Democratization
Presentation by Sachit Mahajan at the Institute of Information Science (IIS), hosted by Dr Chen, Ling-Jyh, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (2 December)
Data Citizens and the Right to Data
Contribution by Jennifer Gabrys to Data Politics book launch, Mile End Institute, Queen Mary University of London, UK (11 November)
Air Quality Gardens and Citizen Toolkits for the Built Environment
Presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the Kingston Citizens’ Assembly on Air Quality, Kingston, London, UK (10 November)
Citizen Sensing and Air Quality Data
Presentation by Jennifer Gabrys to the Social Sciences Expert Group (SSEG), Defra, UK (5 November)
A Media Ecology of Particulate Matter
Presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “Media Ecology,” Columbia University, New York City, USA (24-25 October)
Environmental Sensing and Citizen Sense
Presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “Sensors Day,” hosted by the EPSRC Sensors Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT), University of Cambridge, UK (10 October)
How to Do Things with Sensors
Seminar presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for L’atelier interdisciplinaire de recherches sur l’environnement (AIRE), Sciences Po, Paris, France (30 September)
Urban Sensing
Presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “Air Pollution, Toxicity and Local Agency” workshop, Critical Ecologies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (27 September)
Citizen Sensing and Air Pollution
Presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for Trust and Technology Strategic Research Initiative (SRI) Symposium, University of Cambridge, UK (19 September)
Program Earth: Environmental Sensors and Digital Citizenships
Presentation and lecture by Jennifer Gabrys for the “Smart Political Ecologies” Summer School and Conference, Wageningen, The Netherlands (30 June – 2 July 2019)
Sensing Particulate Matter and Transforming Chemical Ecologies
Presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the “Chemical” workshop, Department of Geography/Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS “Turbulence”), University College London (UCL), UK (6-7 June)
How to Do Things with Sensors
Keynote presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “Making SPAce: Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology (SPA) student PGR conference,” University of Exeter, UK (16-17 May)
Becoming Planetary
Presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “Geontopower : Cartographie de la scène européenne de la critique du libéralisme tardif,” Columbia Global Centers, Paris, France (10-12 April)
Sensing and Participating in Urban Air Pollution
Keynote presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the “Take Part” seminar of the Cultures of Participation network, Aarhus University, Denmark (10-11 April)
Ocean Sensing and Navigating the End of this World
Presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “Navigation beyond Vision,” e-flux 10th Anniversary event series with the Harun Farocki Institute, HKW, Berlin, Germany (5-6 April)
Sensing Haunted Dust
Presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “Haunted Machines,” at the Design Museum, London, UK (16 March)
Instruments and Instrumentality
Presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (STIS) seminar, University of Edinburgh, UK (11 March)
Processing Waste from a Smart(er) Planet
Presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the seminar series, “Waste: Histories and Futures,” Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (CENHS), Rice University, Houston, USA (31 January-2 February)
A Feeling for Worlds: Encountering Animals as Sensors
Presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the “Machine Feeling” Transmediale Workshop with Aarhus University and the Cambridge Digital Humanities programme, CRASSH, University of Cambridge, UK (15 January)
From Citizen Sensing to Collective Monitoring
Public lecture by Jennifer Gabrys for the Digital | Visual | Cultural research group, Department of Geography, University of Oxford, UK (7-8 January)
How to Do Things with Sensors
Invited public lecture and research salon by Jennifer Gabrys for Technologies in Practice (TiP), IT University (ITU), Copenhagen, Denmark (21-22 November)
Program Earth: From Environmental Sensing to Citizen Sensing
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the annual John Fekete Distinguished Lecture series, Cultural Studies, Trent University, Canada (1-2 November)
Changing Trajectories of Environmental Research
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the 25th Anniversary Address (Environment and Planning theme), Global Urban Research Unit (GURU), Newcastle University (17 October)
Air Walk: Speculative Atmospheres
Invited walk and workshop by Jennifer Gabrys and Francesca Perona for the Design Museum, London (29 September)
Planetary Media and the Becoming Environmental of Computation
Invited keynote by Jennifer Gabrys for the “Digital Cultures” conference, Center for Digital Cultures, Lepuhana University, Germany (19-22 September)
Citizen Sensing: From Data to Action
Invited panel contribution by Jennifer Gabrys for the Air Sensors International Conference (ASIC), Oakland, California, USA (12-14 September)
Making Urban Worlds: Involving Citizens, Particles, Sensors and Cities
Invited contribution by Jennifer Gabrys for the panel “Involving Compounds,” organized by Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Dimitris Papadopoulos and Manuel Tironi, EASST, Lancaster, UK (25-28 July)
Phyto-Sensor Toolkit
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the Urgent Matters I: Plants, People and Pollution, Phytology, Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, London (12 July)
Lewisham’s Air Quality
Invited talk by Jennifer Gabrys for Goldsmiths public engagement event, “People’s University” for Lewisham People’s Day, Catford, UK (7 July)
Air Pollution and Citizen Sensing
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the Deptford Folk Evelyn 200 First Tuesday John Evelyn Talks, London, UK (3 July)
Just Good Enough Data: Figuring Data Citizenships and Environmental Participation
Invited presentation by Helen Pritchard of co-authored Citizen Sense article for the “Democratising Big Data” workshop, University of Sussex Digital Humanities Lab (28-29 June)
Phyto-Sensor Toolkit
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the The Swamp Pavilion Summer School, Venice Architecture Biennale, Italy (26-30 June)
Environment as Experiment in Sensing Technology
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the workshop, “Sensing Media: Reconfigurations between Technologies, Bodies and Environments,” University of Siegen, Germany (14-15 June)
The Participatory Platform in the Idiotic City
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the workshop, “Prototyping the Idiotic City,” Centre for Invention and Social Process (CISP), Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (5 June)
Operative Models
Invited contribution by Jennifer Gabrys to “Operative Models” panel as part of Forensic Architecture exhibition, Institute for Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, UK (7 April)
Phyto-Sensor Workshop and Walk
Invited public engagement event on citizen toolkits for air quality gardens, by Jennifer Gabrys with Francesca Perona, Museum of London, London, UK (17 March)
Environmental Sensing and Expanded Subjects of Sense
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the Department of Art, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (19 February)
Tuning Earths
Symposium for the Citizen Sense research project. Including contributions from Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Doina Petrescu, Didier Debaise, Beth Coleman, Alex Murray-Leslie, Susan Schuppli, Matthew Fuller, Olga Goriunova, and Gediminas and Nomeda Urbonas. Whitechapel Gallery, London (1 December). With film screening of Story Telling for Earthly Survival by Fabrizio Terranova, and Q&A by Shela Sheikh and Peggy Pierrot (30 November)
A Cosmopolitics of Energy
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the symposium, “Architecture of Energy,” Architecture, Space and Society Centre, Birkbeck, University of London, UK (3 November)
Citizen Sense Dustbox: Air Walk
Lunchtime session “Air Walk” to test the Citizen Sense Dustbox, an event organised in relation to the installation of Citizen Sense Dustbox materials for the “London Gallery” as part of the “City Now City Future” exhibition, Museum of London (Air Walk: 19 October)
Program Earth
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the colloquium, “Earth Lab: An Investigation of Earth as Laboratory,” University of Westminster, London, UK (30 September)
The Theatre of Measurement
Invited symposium and workshop contribution by Jennifer Gabrys and Helen Pritchard for the “Call for Instruments and Data” as part of “The Theatre of Measurement” for The New Observatory exhibition, FACT, Liverpool, UK (29 September)
Making and Unmaking Citizens through Sensing Environments
Invited keynote presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “Making and Unmaking the Environment,” Design History Society (DHS) annual conference, Oslo, Norway (7-9 September)
Citizen Sensing, Urban Politics and Practice-Based Research
Conference presentation by Lara Houston (with Jennifer Gabrys and Helen Pritchard) for “The Ethnographic Effect: Imagining a Next Generation of Methodological Possibilities” panel for the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) annual meeting, Boston, USA (1 September)
Collaborative Urban Sensing with the “Dustbox” Air Quality Monitor
Presentation by Lara Houston (with Jennifer Gabrys and Helen Pritchard) for “Making and Doing” event for the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) annual meeting, Boston, USA (31 August)
Media Environments, Environmental Media
Invited video lecture by Jennifer Gabrys for the “Posthuman Ethics in the Anthropocene” summer school, Utrecht University (21-25 August)
Citizen Sensing and Environmental Participation
Invited video lecture by Jennifer Gabrys for “The Participatory Environmental Humanities,” conference, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia (18-19 July)
Citizen Sense Dustbox
Installation of Citizen Sense Dustbox materials for the “London Gallery” as part of the “City Now City Future” exhibition, Museum of London (14 July 2017 – 2 January 2018)
Environmental Sensing: Telepathically Urban
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the Imminent Commons book launch, for the Seoul Biennale 2017, V&A Museum, London, UK (4 July)
Instrumenting the Planet: Sensing and Actuating Remote Environments and Smart Cities
Invited keynote presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “Remote Control,” Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory, Cluster of Excellence, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (29-30 June)
Dustbox and Frackbox
Citizen Sense installation for “The New Observatory” exhibition, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool, UK (22 June – 1 October)
Environmental Sensing and Citizen Sense
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the launch of “The New Observatory” exhibition, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool, UK (22 June)
Data Stories and Data Citizenships
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) seminar Cambridge, UK (5 June)
Citizen Sensing and the Becoming Environmental of Computation
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the Social Theory Network, co-led by the departments of Media & Communications and Sociology, London School of Economics (LSE), London, UK (18 May)
From Citizen Sensing to Citizen Data
Invited key presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the “Toxic Expertise” second annual workshop, University of Warwick, UK (3-4 May)
Citizen Sense: Monitoring and Contesting Environments of Extraction
Invited keynote presentation by Jennifer Gabrys as part of the launch of a new Environmental Humanities initiative, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA (19-20 April)
Capturing Air and Creaturing Data
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for seminar on “Capture,” for the Global Emergent Media Lab, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (14-15 April)
The Becoming Environmental of Computation
Invited keynote presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “Sensor Publics: The Politics of Sensing and Data Infrastructures” workshop, Munich Centre for Technology in Society (MCTS), Technical University Munich, Germany (5-7 April)
Citizen Sense and Urban Sensing
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “Greening the Hill” Telegraph Hill Festival, Hill Station Café, Telegraph Hill, London, UK (1 April)
Citizen Sense and the Dustbox
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys and Lara Houston for “How Do We Get Clean Air for All Londoners?” London’s Living Room, organized by Caroline Russell, City Hall, Greater London Authority (21 March)
Tracing and Citizen Sensing Laboratory
Citizen Sense Laboratory (Jennifer Gabrys, Helen Pritchard and Lara Houston) on “Wild Sensing” for “Who Are We?” week of participatory installations, conversations and learning labs. Curated by Tate Exchange Associates: Counterpoints Arts, The Open University, University of Warwick and Loughborough University as part of Tate Exchange, London, UK (14-19 March)
Citizen Sensing and Environmental Data
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “Arts and Environment” symposium, Brown Arts Initiative, Brown University, Providence, USA (3-4 March)
Sensing Environments, Inventing Citizens
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for Sonic Acts Festival conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (23-26 February)
Environmental Data and Data Citizenships
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for research seminar, Department of Geography, University of Exeter, UK (23 February)
Sensing Air and Creaturing Data
Invited panel presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for <<Data Publics>> international research forum, an Austrian Science Fund research project co-located at the Institute of Art and Design at the Vienna University of Technology and the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (26-28 January)
Working with Sensor Data: Viewing, Analysing, Scraping
Evening workshop with Citizen Sense (Jennifer Gabrys, Helen Pritchard, Lara Houston), Deptford, London, UK (24 January 2017, Goldsmiths)
Environmental Sensors and Planetary Computerization: Remaking Milieus and Subjects through New Sensing Practices
Invited keynote presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for STS Italia Conference, “Sociotechnical Environments,” University of Trento, Italy (24-26 November)
Animals as Sensors: Machines and Organisms Generating Computational Environments
Invited keynote presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for Hybrid Matters symposium, Helsinki, Finland (24 November)
Data Stories and Citizen Sensing
Invited presentation by Helen Pritchard for the Digital Media Guest Lectures, University of the West of England, UK (23 November)
Data Stories and Citizen Sensing
Invited lightning talk by Helen Pritchard for the panel “Projects and Reflections on Common Ground of Citizen and DIY Science,” at Doing It Together Science, European Stakeholder Round Table on Citizen and DIY Science and Responsible Research & Innovation, Museum for Natural History, Berlin (8th November)
Sensing Environmental Conflict with Lichens: Bioindication and Expressive Modes of Environmental Politics
Invited keynote presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the “Future Fictions Summit,” Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland (22 October)
Environmental Exposure and Citizen Sensing: New Modes of Monitoring, New Modes of Politics
Presentation by Helen Pritchard of paper co-authored with Jennifer Gabrys for the symposium, “Exposure Science Meets Social Science: Tools for the Effective Communication of the Health Risks Associated with Air Pollution Exposure and Implications for Policy Development,” International Society for Exposure Science, Utrecht, Netherlands (9-13 October)
DATACTIVE workshop
Invited contribution by Jennifer Gabrys to DATACTIVE kick-off workshop, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (15-16 September)
Instruments and Instrumentality
Conference presentation by Jennifer Gabrys and Helen Pritchard for the track, “New Collective Practices of Measurement, Monitoring and Evidence,” track co-organized by Jennifer Gabrys, Evelyn Ruppert and Dan Neyland, 4S/EASST, Barcelona, Spain (31 August-3 September)
Science Makers: Sensor Networks
Invited talk and workshop by Helen Pritchard on PM2.5 air quality sensors, Science Makers, Synthetic Biology SRI, University of Cambridge, UK (2 July)
The Becoming Environmental of Computation
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “Ecologies of Existence” symposium, Digital Cultures Research Lab, Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany (1-2 July)
Program Earth book launch
Conversation between Jennifer Gabrys and Andreas Broeckmann, Mondbasis, hosted by the Digital Cultures Research Lab, Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany (28 June)
Indeterminate Technology and Automatic Urban Sensing
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the “Infrastructure and Automatic Participation” panel, Techno-Collectivities, University of Konstanz, Germany (9-11 June)
Visiting Fellow
Jennifer Gabrys in residence at Digital Cultures Research Lab, Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany (May-July)
Reworking Sensing Practices through Environmental Monitoring Technologies
Invited workshop discussion facilitated by Jennifer Gabrys and Helen Pritchard for CSISP Salon, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (25 May)
Citizen Sense: Inventing New Forms of Environmental Citizenship
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the panel, “Future Cities and Citizen Driven Innovation Labs,” Open Innovation 2.0 Conference, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands (23-24 May)
Environmental Sensing for an Urban Planet
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “Urban Anthropocene” workshop, Department of Geography, Durham University, UK (18 May)
Digital Infrastructures of Withness: Constructing a Speculative ‘Smart’ City
Invited plenary session contribution from Jennifer Gabrys for “Streams of Consciousness: Data, Cognition, and Intelligent Devices,” Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick, UK (21-22 April)
Constellations of Collective Politics: Community Monitoring of Fracking Infrastructure
Conference presentation by Helen Pritchard for two-part panel, “Sensing Practices: Reworking Experience across Entities, Environments, and Technologies (part 2),” co-organized by Jennifer Gabrys and Helen Pritchard, American Association of Geographers (AAG), San Francisco, USA (30 March)
Monitoring Air Pollution and Fracking: An Opening into Citizen Sensing Practices and Speculative Research
Conference presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for two-part panel, “Sensing Practices: Reworking Experience across Entities, Environments, and Technologies (part 2),” co-organized by Jennifer Gabrys and Helen Pritchard, American Association of Geographers (AAG), San Francisco, USA (30 March)
Vegetal Sensing, Bio-Indication, and Expressive Modes of Environmental Politics
Invited conference presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “Cultivation: Vegetal Lives, Global Systems and the Politics of Planting,” co-organized by Sheila Sheikh and Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (18-19 March)
Re-Materializing Toxic Materialities
Invited panel discussion by Jennifer Gabrys for “Toxic Materialities: Where Heaven Meets Hell,” Passengerfilms, The Water Poet, London, UK (29 February)
Planetary Sensing
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “Terra Bytes” seminar, Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (19 February)
Citizen Sense: Urban Sensing for an Urban Planet
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for Horizon 2020 4th edition conference, as part of ERC=ScienceSquared “The Human City,” Brussels, Belgium (16 February)
Reprogramming Participation in the Smart City
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the panel, “Reprogramming the Internet of Things,” Transmediale, Berlin, Germany (5 February)
Re-Thingifying the Smart City
Workshop co-organized by Jennifer Gabrys and Helen Pritchard for Transmediale, Berlin, Germany (5 February)
Citizen Sense: Participatory Approaches to Air Pollution Monitoring
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “The Power to Act,” This Happened London, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (1 December)
European Citizen Science via the Web
Open Science Citizen Science Open Research Accelerator co-organized by Sven Schade, Jennifer Gabrys, Helen Pritchard and Francesco Cara, MozFest 2015, Ravensbourne, London, UK (8 November)
Citizen Sensing Practices
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the D-Lab Colloquium, Digital Methods Initiative, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (28 October)
Next-Generation Environmental Sensing: Moving Beyond Regulatory Benchmarks for Citizen-Gathered Data
Conference presentation by Helen Pritchard of paper co-authored with Jennifer Gabrys for “Environmental Infrastructures and Platforms 2015 – Infrastructures and Platforms for Environmental Crowd Sensing and Big Data Proceedings of the Workshop,” as part of the European Citizen Science Association General Assembly 2015 (ECSA GA’ 2015), Barcelona, Spain (28-30 October)
Programming Environments, Programming Sense: Technical Distributions of Governance in the Smart City
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “Controlling Environments” workshop, School of Geography and Environment, University of Oxford, UK (15 October)
Sensing Air and Creaturing Data
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “Datum: On the Calculus of the Technosphere” panel as part of “The Technosphere, Now,” Haus der Kulteren der Welt, Berlin, Germany (2 October)
Dreaming Collectives
Invited dialogue between Jennifer Gabrys and Clapperton C. Mavhunga for the opening of “100 Years of Now,” Haus der Kulteren der Welt, Berlin, Germany (30 September)
Are We Stewards of the Earth?
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “Forum for European Philosophy,” London School of Economics, UK (22 June)
DIY Science
Invited workshop participation by Jennifer Gabrys, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy (16-17 June)
Citizen Sense
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “A Toolkit of Genuine Science Stories,” ERC panel at World Conference of Science Journalism, Seoul, Korea (8-12 June)
Bio-sensing and Vegetal Transformations
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “Photography, Colonialism and the Politics of Planting,” Mosaic Rooms, London, UK (28 May)
Re-thingifying the Internet of Things
Invited keynote by Jennifer Gabrys for “From Media to Materialities: Mapping the Afterlife of Digital Technologies,” organized by Jennie Olofsson HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden (20-21 May)
Petrocultures and Environmental Practice
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys of Citizen Sense project work for “Environmental Futures: Oil, Ecology, Petrocultures,” for Arts Week, Birkbeck, University of London, UK (18 May)
Pollution Sensing and Fracking: Practices of Citizen-Based Air-Quality Monitoring
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys of Citizen Sense project work for the Environment Research Group seminar series in the School of Planning and Geography at Cardiff University, Wales (28 April)
Citizen-Based Monitoring of Air Quality at Sites of Shale Gas Production
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys of Citizen Sense project work for Department of Geography seminar, University College London, UK (24 March)
Conceptualizing Smart Cities: Sensors, Environmentality and Digital Participation
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for Smart Cities Workshop organized by Gillian Rose and Sophie Watson, Departments of Geography and Sociology, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK (23 March)
Programming Environments: Environmentality and Citizen Sensing in the Smart City
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “Digital Material Culture” MA course, organized by Joel McKim, Birkbeck University, London, UK (11 March)
Citizen Sensing, Monitoring Air Pollution, and Building the Frackbox
Presentation by Helen Pritchard of paper co-authored with Jennifer Gabrys, Nerea Calvillo and Tom Keene, Citizen Science 2015 Conference, San Jose, USA (11-13 February)
Citizen Sensing, Smart Citizens and Rethinking the Problem of Urban Participation
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “Open Data/Smart Citizens” with the London Media Cities Network, organized by Joel McKim and Scott Rodgers, Birkbeck University, London, UK (27 January)
Citizen Sense: From Digital Utopia to Techo-Political Participation
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys of Citizen Sense project work for the “Activating the Public Space” panel of “Digital Utopias,” a one-day conference curated by Abandon Normal Devices as a trailblazer event for Hull UK City of Culture 2017, funded through Arts Council England and Google, Hull Truck Theatre, Hull, UK (20 January)
Participatory Research for Monitoring Air Pollution: Citizen Sensing for Fracking-Related Environmental Concerns
Invited presentation by Helen Pritchard of paper co-authored with Jennifer Gabrys and of Citizen Sense project work, “Border Topologies” conference, organized by Nishat Awan, University of Sheffield, UK (26 November)
Citizen Sensing and Environmental Practice
Invited keynote by Jennifer Gabrys of Citizen Sense project work, “PhD by Design Conference,” organized by Bianca Elzenbaumer, Alison Thomson and Maria Portugal, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (6-7 November)
Citizen Sensing, Smart Citizens and Rethinking the Problem of Urban Participation
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys, “Could Cambridge be a Smarter City,” organized by Collusion for the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, University of Cambridge, UK (30 October)
Sensing Practices and Environmental Monitoring: Putting Political Technologies to Work
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys of Citizen Sense project work, “Environmental Entanglements: Art, Technology and Natures,” organized by Lea Schick, Anne Sophie Witzke, Line Marie Thorsen, and Stine Kondrup (IT University), Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark (28-29 October)
Sensors and the Computational Experience of Environments
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys of Citizen Sense project work, “Computers and the Environment” workshop, organized by Christophe Lecuyer and hosted by UPMC and Paris-Sorbonne, Banyuls sur Mer, France (2-4 October)
Pollution Sensing: An Opening into Speculative Research and Practice
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys of Citizen Sense project work at “Transforming Data” workshop, organized by Antonia Walford, CRESC, Open University, London, UK (25-26 September)
Programming Environments: Environmentality and Citizen Sensing in the Smart and Sustainable City
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys, “Mediating Urban Uncertainty,” organized by Sobie Kaker, London School of Economics, UK (11 September)
Materializing, Practicing and Contesting Environmental Data
Conference panel session chaired by Nerea Calvillo, organized by Jennifer Gabrys, Nerea Calvillo, Helen Pritchard and Nick Shapiro, 4S, Buenos Aires, Argentina (20-23 August)
From Network to Egg: The Extended Arrangements of Air Pollution Data
Conference presentation by Nerea Calvillo of paper co-authored with Jennifer Gabrys, Nerea Calvillo, Tom Keene, Helen Pritchard and Nick Shapiro, 4S, Buenos Aires, Argentina (20-23 August)
Measuring Life: Commensuration, Devices and Nature
Invited workshop presentation by Nerea Calvillo for Citizen Sense, organized by Manuel Tironi, Institute of Sociology, Catholic University of Chile (19 August)
Air Pollution: Citizen Experiments and Urban Sustainability
Symposium contribution by Nerea Calvillo for Citizen Sense, organized by Manuel Tironi and Hector Manuel Jorquera, Built Environment and Resources Critical (Center for Sustainable Urban Development / CEDEUS), Catholic University of Chile (18 August)
Locating the Idiot in the Smart City: Troubling the Practices of Sensor-Based Citizenship
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys, Summer Participatory Information Technology (PIT), Aarhus University, Denmark (12 August)
The Activism of an Object: The Air Quality Egg
Invited presentation by Nerea Calvillo, “Curating the Activist Object,” May Day Rooms, London (7-8 July)
Citizen Sensing and Environmental Practice
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys of Citizen Sense project work, “Future Cities” seminar series, organized by Anna Davies, Department of Geography, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (23 June)
Citizen Sensing and Environmental Practice
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys and Nerea Calvillo, “Live Transmissions,” as part of the Transmissions and Entanglements ESRC-seminar series, organized by Kat Jungnickel, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (12 June)
From Cloud to Cupboard: Speculative Computing and Cloud-Making in the Citizen Sense Project
Conference presentation by Helen Pritchard and Tom Keene of paper co-authored with Jennifer Gabrys, “Emerging ICT and Citizens’ Values: Anticipating and Responding to Challenges,” 5th STS Italia Conference, “A Matter of Design: Making Society through Science and Technology,” Milan, Italy (12-14 June)
Citizen Sense
Invited presentation by Nerea Calvillo of Citizen Sense project work, “Citizen Sensors,” La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain (13 May)
The Affectsphere of Environmental Sensing
Invited presentation by Helen Pritchard of Citizen Sense and Animal Hacker research, “Cross-Currents: Rural Cultural Practice and the Digital Economy in India and the UK,” IIIT Bangalore (12-14 May)
Environmental Sensors and Participatory Urbanism: Troubling the Practices of Data-Based Citizenship
Invited keynote by Jennifer Gabrys for “Defining the Sensor Society,” a multidisciplinary symposium organized by Mark Andrejevic, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland, Australia (8-9 May)
Pollution Sensing and the Shadowy World of Things: An Opening into Speculative Research and Practice
Conference presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for special panel event on methods, “Speculation in Social Science: Novel Methods for Re-Inventing Problems,” organized through the Unit of Play, Goldsmiths, British Sociological Association (BSA) 2014, Leeds, UK (25 April)
Natural Gas Extraction, Intimate Exposures and the Biopolitics of Infrastructure
Workshop presentation by Nick Shapiro of paper co-authored with Jennifer Gabrys, “Infrastructural Worlds” workshop, Duke University, Durham, USA (28-29 March)
DIY Urbanism and the Emergent City of Sensor-Based Citizenship
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for roundtable, “Artistic and Cultural Strategies, Technology and Urban Transformations,” organized by Anne Marit Waade and Søren Pold, with Katherine Gibson, Informationsvidenskab & Digital Design, Aarhus University, Denmark (27 March)
Monitoring Pollution and Speculating about Fracking
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys of Citizen Sense project work, “Petrocultures” conference, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, Montréal, Canada (6-7 February)
Practicing, Materializing and Contesting Environmental Data
Presentation by Jennifer Gabrys with Nerea Calvillo, Tom Keene, Helen Pritchard, Nick Shapiro, as part of the “Data Practices” Design and Social Science seminar series, CSISP, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (4 December)
Digital Fossils, Transformative Geologies: The Materialities of Electronic Waste
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for California College of the Arts (CCA) Four by Four Lecture Series: Design + Art x Science, Oakland, USA (16 October)
Sensing the Air and Experimenting with Environmental Citizenship
Conference presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “Ecologies of Evidence, Life and Politics” panel with Fernando Dominguez Rubio and Nerea Calvillo, Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) annual conference, San Diego, USA (9-12 October)
From Ubiquitous Computing to Electronic Waste: Anticipating Environmental Cultures
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “Mapping Environmental Cultures: Comparative Approaches to Waste in China,” an interdisciplinary conference, organized by Anna Lora-Wainwright and Peter Wynn Kirby, Balliol College, University of Oxford, UK (16-17 September)
Ecological Observatories: Fluctuating Sites and Sensing Subjects
Conference presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “Participation in Science: More-than-Human Participation,” co-hosted at the Dana Centre and the Royal Geographic Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) annual conference, London, UK (27-30 August)
Digital Fossils, and Transformative Geologies: The Processual Materialities of Electronic Waste
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for “Geologies of Value and Vestige,” Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston University, Kingston, UK (10 July)
Air Walk: Environmental Monitoring in NXG
Urban walking event organized by Jennifer Gabrys, Helen Pritchard and Nerea Calvillo for the International Visual Sociology Association conference, Goldsmiths, University of London (8-10 July). Air walk article documenting event.
Sensing the Air and Experimenting with Environmental Citizenship
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for Multimodality Workshop, funded through the ESRC project, “Developing Capacity in Multimodal Research, Community Engagement and Energy Demand Reduction,” a joint venture between the ESRC/EPSRC energy and community projects at Cardiff University and Goldsmiths, University of London, Cardiff City Hall, Wales (4-5 July)
Tracking Trash and Monitoring Environments: Energy Monitors as Digital Media?
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for conference and workshop, “Media Archaeology and Technological Debris,” Goldsmiths, University of London, UK (20-21 June)
Programming Environments: Environmentality and Citizen Sensing in the Smart City
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys, with presentation by Nerea Calvillo for “Smart Cities and Speculative Urbanism,” chaired by Michael Guggenheim, Urban Salon, University College London, UK (20 May)
Locating the Idiot in the Smart City
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for the “Social City” in the “Digital Citizen” series of events, organized by Close and Remote, Deptford Lounge, Lewisham Library, London, UK (16 May)
Salvage Programs and Natural History
Invited presentation by Jennifer Gabrys for Depletion Design, Transmediale (BWPWAP), Berlin, Germany (30 January)
