iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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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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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

I’m honoured to get to work with so many dedicated, skilful and generous local partners. Special thanks to LBN Youth Empowerment, Rabbits Road Press, Young V&A, Queer Circle, Thames Life, British Red Cross, Royal Docks.

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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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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Bio aspiration - mushroom tickler

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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hi, I’d love to be added please.

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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hey, could I be added please? Thanks.

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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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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

The grand finale belonged to this drama queen, the glistening inky cap. While you can eat it, it’s not really worth the effort.

A finger points to a cluster of mushrooms near a hardwood roundel, in the midst of fallen, dead leaves. The mushrooms are ochre in the centre and darker brown around the edges. The younger examples are bell shaped with a slightly glistening surface, while the more mature mushrooms have flattened or slightly convex caps.

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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Behold, this absolutely enormous bracket fungus! Would provide partial cover in a downpour.

A large bracket fungus protrudes from a living tree trunk in the midst of a leafy, green woodland. A hand reaches up from the right of the image to hold the edge of the fungus.

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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

These little white protrusions from the dead wood are candle snuff fungi. They are bioluminescent (fairy lights!) and they release little clouds of spores when tickled.

A close up of a section of decayed dead wood with small, white tipped fungi protruding from the gaps and troughs of the wood. In the corner of the image, a hand with painted nails tickles the tips of the fungi.

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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

This tawny funnel mushroom was growing on a loose piece of bark. You can see the cotton-like mycelia at the base. It smells slightly sweet, and it’s edible. We put it back.

A close up of two hands in fingerless gloves holding a cluster of three mushrooms. The mushrooms are ochre and vase-like in shape. They dip in the centre, and have pale gills around the upturned base.

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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

I dreamt of a near-future US fascist empire extending across Europe. A well-meaning attempt at a bioengineered solution to climate change had resulted in hyper growth plants that seeded out of control and leeched the soil. Everyone was eating old canned food. Do not recommend this scenario.

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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!

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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

The Caribbean Cricket Archive, which launched last month, led by Montaz Marché as part of This Is Black Britain, funded by AHRC KE. caribbeancricketarchive.memorymapper.org

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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

City of Women London, led by Reni Eddo-Lodge, Emma Watson and Rebecca Solnit, with Haymarket Books and TfL, funded by EPSRC KEIF, Grand Challenges and the Centre for Cultural Heritage Studies. Setting up the interviews by Mulberry School students was a highlight. www.cityofwomenlondon.org

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City of Women London

An interactive version of City of Women London

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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Lost and Found: A European Literary Map of London, curated by the UCL European Institute. www.europeanliterarylondon.org

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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Newham Youth Map, a map of spaces for young people by young people, with Newham Youth Empowerment, funded by UCL Engagement. We’re about to start work with a new group to add SEND access data. newhamyouthmap.memorymapper.org

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Newham Youth Map

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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

A Memory Map of the Jewish East End, led by Rachel Lichtenstein, was the first memory map created at the Bartlett in 2020. jewisheastendmemorymap.org

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A Memory Map of the Jewish East End

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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

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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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