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Leah Lovett

@leahlo.bsky.social
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Artist, researcher in Connected Environments, UCL, exploring digital co-creation and spatial storytelling. LGBTQ+, mum, cat cohabitant, tree person.

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UCL News @uclnews.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
As covered in his book, 'Windrush Cricket', Dr Michael Collins @uclhistory.bsky.social reflects on the role of cricket clubs as safe spaces for the #WindrushGeneration. He also considers the impact of a 1982 game between the Met Police CC and Brixton West Indies CC. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Cricket's healing role after the Brixton Riots
A year after the Brixton riots, the Brixton West Indies Cricket Club and the Metropolitan Police came together.
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
From 1959 to 1965, Wynn Bullock created amazing abstract color images on 35mm Kodachrome slides. The process, which he developed himself, involved complex multi-layered colored glass and objects, plus the creative and subtle use of depth of field. Color Light Abstraction 1094 #WynnBullock
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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Queer AF* (*as fungi) - a snapshot from our walk beyond binaries on the Wanstead Flats with fungi futures this weekend.
A ground level view. A woman in scarf, gloves and long coat crouches down in long grass to examine the bracket fungus on a log. A group of people stands around her looking at the log.
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Kate Mason @katejmason.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
💚💫🍂🌾🌼 ‘Summer Flowers’ - Wolff Architects - beautifully evocative exhibition on at #uclurbanroom #BessieHead #SouthAfrica #UCLEast #Eastbank #HereEast #wolffarchitects #stratford #uclscci #ilzewolff ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/creative-cul...
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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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Dan Raven-Ellison @danravenellison.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Slow Ways is a giant citizen initiative to develop an inspiring national walking network... and we're looking to recruit a tech team to take us to the next level! Could that be you? See beta.slowways.org/Page/job-vac... for more details. @slowwaysuk.bsky.social #SlowWays 🐌💫
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
👀 lots of folks QT'ing to say: women — submit your manuscripts! I think what has to come first is: universities, fix your gendered service and teaching inequities, and society, balance out your care work, so women *have time* to write the damn manuscripts. So many women colleagues are BURNT OUT.
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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Playing the Archive: From the Opies to the Digital Playground is now available to pre-order from @uclpress.bsky.social It features the Time Telephone by @vsigno.bsky.social on the cover, and our chapter, From Interfaces to Memories, on transmitting memories of play uclpress.co.uk/book/playing...
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Playing the Archive
Playing the Archive: From the Opies to the digital playground reflects on a major study inspired by the work of citizen scholar folklorists Iona and Peter Opie. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Opies built...
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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
A whole team effort! Thanks to Connected Environments for showing up to cheer me on tonight. I loved hearing about all the collaborative, co-creative practice happening at UCL East. Massive respect to our engagement team for their unwavering support and care to make this work possible.
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Catriona Wilson @catrionacurator.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
*Amazing Job Opportunity!* Head of Museums and Cultural Programmes, UCL Permanent, full time £66,711–£72,370 Closes 18 December 2024 Come work with me! www.linkedin.com/posts/catrio...
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Catriona W. on LinkedIn: UCL – University College London
*Another Job Opportunity!* Head of Museums and Cultural Programmes Permanent, full time £66,711–£72,370 The Head of Museums and Cultural Programmes…
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Mare Pan @paarsec.com · 31/10/2024
Reminder that this poem exists: The Tiger by Nael, Age 6 826dc.org/student-writ...
By: Nael, Grade 1
The Tiger

The tiger
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The tiger is out

 

Originally published in “They’re Singing a Song in Their Rocket” and “You Will Be Able to Say a Thousand Words”
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Ben Campkin @bencampkin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
An update on the campaign to save Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club in Tower Hamlets. An important case in the struggle to protect London’s social infrastructure, cabaret and LGBTQ+ inclusive venues. Read and sign! www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/op...
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Open letter to Tower Hamlets Mayor Lutfur Rahman: Buy Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club!
In response to an application from Equity, the Principal Planning Officer for Tower Hamlets has confirmed the position of the Local Authority, saying "any proposed development which would not retain t...
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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Our 6th and final paper making workshop at the Institute of Making, UCL East - using leftover kozo, cotton and sisal from previous sessions, and pulling one massive sheet between three of us. Thanks to artist Mandy Brannan for a wonderful course!
Large sheet of just pulled paper laid out on a faded pink towel and white interfacing. The paper has a colour gradient from ochre on the left to sea green on the right. There are darker blotches of yellow in the middle. Two sheets of hand pulled paper laid out on a sheet of interfacing. The papers are made with longer kozo fibres, and both have a subtle green gradient on one edge. Five sheets of hand made papers of various sizes drying on a window. All have natural kozo fibre bases, and are layered with green cotton of different shapes to give a gradient effect.
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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
A moving postcard from the Information Age - thank you @djdunc.bsky.social
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Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
say I’m beaming not beautiful said the lighthouse to the waves 21.XI.24 dailies, a daily poem on substack
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Duncan Wilson @djdunc.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
One of the fun things we get to teach our MSc students is to develop historical and scientific knowledge of their field of study - the Information Age exhibit at the wonderful @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social covers the laying of the first telegraphic cables to mobile tech - ta @leahlo.bsky.social
2024 MSc Connected Environments students at Science Museum London - Information Age exhibit.
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Charlie Tweed @charlietweed.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The call is open for the Digital Ecologies III: Machine / Material / Land symposium and exhibition taking place on July 24-25 2025 in Bath. I am curating the Machine Futures strand. sites.google.com/view/digital... #digitalecologies #artandtechnoligy #soil #land #food #machines #criticalai
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Kerstin Sailer @kerstinsailer.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I've created a starter pack for colleagues and graduate students at the #Bartlett #UCL Faculty of the Built Environment including @timwaterman.bsky.social @willjennings.bsky.social @djdunc.bsky.social @adamdennett.bsky.social and others - who am I missing? Suggestions welcome go.bsky.app/8tVcce6
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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A starter pack of the lovely folks based at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL - follow for spatial data science, connected environments, and place-based storytelling.
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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Well, now I like it here even more 🍄‍🟫❤️
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Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
This, from Navajo weaver and maths teacher Marilou Schultz, is incredible (via @thisiscolossal.com) 🐡 www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/11/mari...
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Marilou Schultz Weaves Computer Processor Patterns in Traditional Navajo Tapestries
What does Intel's Pentium computer chip have in common with Navajo textiles? More than you might think.
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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Bio aspiration - mushroom tickler
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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Paper making masterclass with Mandy Brannan, week 5 - experimentation with mixed fibres and techniques. The images show mixed papers made with kozo and pigmented cotton using the Japanese method. I’m excited the translucency of the kozo, and the escaping yellow fibres.
Mixed handmade papers drying on a window. The papers range in colour from soft white to pinkish orange. Some have yellow splodges, others are flecked with orange-red fibres. Mixed handmade papers drying on a window. The papers are a very pale pinkish orange. All are flecked with orange-red fibres, and layered with yellow pigmented cotton in sections.
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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
It was beautiful today at the Knepp Estate #Rewilding #SlowSundays
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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
#Caturday
Short haired tabby cat curled in a tight ball on a pink and white striped duvet
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Mx Luminality @mxluminality.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
I love this little meme and self reference it often
And abstract painting will react to you if you react to it
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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Fungi Futures (Maymana) led my queering the apocalypse colleagues on a mushroom walk around Hackney Marshes today. I’m not quite up to speed with the i.d., but apparently this bracket might be good for kindling.
A fallen log with ochre-tan coloured bracket fungi protruding in small clusters from either side.
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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Fungi photos to follow!
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Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Fun fact: If someone quotes a post of yours in a way that is unwelcome (as is commonplace on Twitter/X) there is a tool to combat the unwanted attention. Simply click the three dot menu on the quote post & click "Detach quote". This removes your post from their quote post. Useful to know, do share!
An image showing what I describe
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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I love losing myself in trawling museum collections, finding brilliant bits like this Egyptian mosaic glass inlay decorated with a striding Ibis! It's a miniature marvel! #AncientBluesky 🏺 Image: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier (EV 1994,126 Fnr. 882). Link - rlp.museum-digital.de/object/915
A small mosaic glass inlay. The decoration shows a black-and-white Egyptian ibis, striding from right to left along a red ground line. The bird really stands out against the bright green background of the glass.
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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
One of the projects I most enjoy working on is Memory Mapper, an open source toolkit for creating interactive maps and stories of place memorymapper.github.io Some of the memory maps we’ve worked on and supported, in order… 🧵
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Memory Mapper
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Joanne Tatham @tathamjoanne.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Here we go. Done in haste. Make suggestions for adds please. go.bsky.app/H6CKvTy
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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Paper making with Mandy Brannan, week 4 - pounding and pulling kozo fibres
Preparing the kozo for poundingPounded kozo fibresKozo paper before pressingKozo paper on a window for drying
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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now. Jewellery shop sales assistant Summer camp worker Gallery invigilator Supermarket deli assistant Boarding school house mum Life model Gallery technician Railway planning
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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
#proofofcat
Short haired domestic cat curled up on a bed with floral sheets, looking at the camera.
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Ben Hart @pavlovforgoths.com · 06/11/2024
17. Hope Is Not a Bird, Emily, It's a Sewer Rat

Hope is not the thing with feathers That comes home to roost When you need it most.

Hope is an ugly thing With teeth and claws and Patchy fur that's seen some shit.

It's what thrives in the discards And survives in the ugliest parts of our world, Able to find a way to go on When nothing else can even find a way in.

It's the gritty, nasty little carrier of such diseases as Optimism, persistence, Perseverance and joy, Transmissible as it drags its tail across your path and Bites you in the ass.

Hope is not some delicate, beautiful bird, Emily.

It's a lowly little sewer rat That snorts pesticides like they were Lines of coke and still Shows up on time to work the next day Looking no worse for wear.
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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
I’ve taken to throwing clay between meetings.
Clay pot on a pottery wheel
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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 05/11/2024
Leah Lovett (@leahlo.bsky.social) and Valerio Signorelli, "RE:Inventing the Museum: co-creation in digital space"
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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
Paper making with Mandy Brannan, week 3 - experiments with pigmentation.
A selection of brightly coloured and layered handmade papers stuck to a window for drying. Two rectangular sheets of bright red-orange handmade paper, layered with purple (top) and yellow (bottom) on interfacing.
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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
Paper making with Mandy Brannan, week 2 - recycling and layering
Assorted sheets of recycled brown and blue paper on white interfacing. Pressing paper - shot from above, with rainbow DMs on a board and towel
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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
preparing a seminar on repetition in poetry. floored once again by Layli Long Soldier’s Obligations 2. the grief          the grief           the grief          the grief
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UCL Science and Technology Studies (STS) @stsucl.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
FASCINATING talk today by @gsvoss.bsky.social where she showed us how art and design practice offers a language to articulate the humanness of complex systems. Her new book Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World, published by @versobooks.bsky.social is 🔥🔥🔥
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
“What were the material, technical, epistemic, cultural, + political conditions that made the built environment computable? And, conversely, what are the implications of emplacing the history of computing in material + spatial settings – in the built environment?” IEEE CFP: abstracts due Dec 1!
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Call for Papers: Special Issue on Computing and the Built Environment
The Special Issue on Computing and the Built Environment invites historical scholarship that tackles the co-constitution and entanglements of computing and the built environment.
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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
In an effort to re-centre making in my research-practice, I’ve begun a six week paper course at the Institute of Making, UCL East. These are my first sheets: two sisal, two cotton, and one a blend of both fibres. Next week we introduce colour - it’s a slow, unfolding drama!
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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
The Caribbean Cricket Archive is Live! Developed by UCL History researcher Montaz Marche with contributions from club members, this memory map celebrates Caribbean Cricket in Britain. caribbeancricketarchive.memorymapper.org #BlackHistoryMonth2024 #Cricket #History @casaucl.bsky.social
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