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Serena Pollastri

@seremiru.bsky.social

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Design for posthuman coastal futures @ Lancaster University (ImaginationLancaster). All terrain knitting. Mamma. ITA/ENG. She/her.

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Serena Pollastri @seremiru.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Buon #25aprile. Sobrietà un cazzo

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Serena Pollastri @seremiru.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Some Mondays at work are better than others (especially when you get to see seals!!) Lovely fieldwork in Walney Island planning for some exciting teaching in the autumn at Lancaster School of Architecture

Black bird hide witha gravelled path with wooden fence. A man with a yellow jacket walking down the path

Saltmarsh with lighthouse in the background

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Serena Pollastri @seremiru.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

For the "A Sense of Place" project out Y1 architecture students have been developing sensory maps of Lancaster. So proud of the time and care they put into this!

Model map of city with acrylic blobs showing smells

Tactile map of textures found on buildings in the city. Each building is abstracted as a block

Map of ethnic minority owned businesses in Lancaster City centre

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Serena Pollastri @seremiru.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

The amazing treasure trove that are the archives of the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology...

Hands handling old pictures of field recordings

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Serena Pollastri @seremiru.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

This made me think of the extensive phone archive @proftriviality.bsky.social keeps in the office and which is a constant source of amusement.

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Dr Joanna Boehnert @ecocene.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

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Serena Pollastri @seremiru.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Back from an inspiring workshop+walk sharing ideas about art, data, and hydrology. The weather made me think of this magic I was able to witness 5 years ago: when the sea froze at low tide and the upcoming high tide then broke the ice into shards. Never seen anything like this before and since.

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Serena Pollastri @seremiru.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

finally finished knitting my very own traditional Gansey jumper (with all the trimming, incl gussets and my initials at the bottom). Just as maternity leave ends and I return to my research on design, craft and the coast in the new year. This should keep me toasty in the blustery North West weather

Teal coloured gansey jumper haging on a white door

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Serena Pollastri @seremiru.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

Rly proud that our paper on "Drawing Together Coastal Futures that may, could, or will" is out on TRACEY special issue Drawing+Anthropocene. ojs.lboro.ac.uk/index.php/TR.... We came a long way since we wrote the paper, but this is where our conversations on Art+Design in coastal futures started

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

Our new series "Repair Manual" examines how design professions might shift from building the world to repairing it. But what can we learn from manuals themselves? In her latest, @shannonmattern.bsky.social turns to the repair manual, as genre and political ecology: placesjournal.org/article/step...

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A Political Ecology of the Repair Manual

The best repair manuals present a vision of repair that is social, embodied, intuitive, and accessible. What if we extend these principles beyond material objects, to the scale of civic systems and sp...

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Serena Pollastri @seremiru.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

Getting Yr1 architecture students to make a zine as part of their project on contested pasts and futures of Lancaster was an absolutely cracking idea. Love the sass and thoughtfulness!

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Serena Pollastri @seremiru.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

A lovely stormy day for doing fieldwork on the coast

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Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

Do you do Design Research? Or do you work in Fan Studies? Or perhaps even both! Please consider coming to our free symposium on Design and Fan Studies on 1st March in Lancaster, UK. Details and EoI form here! forms.office.com/e/TP00d21ixf

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/01/2024

“criticize me and I will destroy your life” is a time honored tool of billionaires ever and one of the biggest reasons we should not have any

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Serena Pollastri @seremiru.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

It is so infuriating that it is not surprising one bit when splashy, glamorous, attention grabbing academic projects (especially in design&architecture) are founded on awful ethics and dodgy research!

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Serena Pollastri @seremiru.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

You can hear me talking about climate change and stereography (old school VR) in the final episode of the '100years 100objects' podcast from Lancaster City museum --> onehundredyearsonehundredobjects.podbean.com

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