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policy

All great and green?! Challenging extractive digital infrastructures

I spoke on the panel 'All great and green?! Challenging extractive digital infrastructures' (on digital infrastructures: colonialism, capitalism, military industrial complex, and the climate crisis) organised with Green Web Foundation at RightsCon 2025

February 27, 2025

talk digital media / tech Critiquing a 'Sustainable Military' policy
Hopeful Futures Video Artwork: Deliberative Tools for Citizens and Policy

My final video creation for Hopeful Futures (KCL, Policy Institute, residents from London Boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark and Tower Hamlets, London Councils) brings together the experiences of residents in London, as well as partners from London Councils on their thoughts of what a London well-adapted to extreme temperatures could look like by 2050. (October 18, 2024 → February 4, 2025)

October 18, 2024

artwork collaboration policy
Hopeful Futures Visioning Workshops: Deliberative Tools for Citizens and Policy

I was invited to work as the Guest Artist for Hopeful Futures - a project between KCL, Policy Institute, London Councils and residents from London Boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark and Tower Hamlets. Through partner information sessions, and the workshops I delivered, the programme tests deliberative and creative methods to imagine what a London well-adapted to extreme temperatures could look like by 2050 and inform local policymaking. (June 18, 2024 → October 26, 2024)

June 18, 2024

workshop collaboration policy
BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides) Launch Conference at BBC’s London Broadcasting House

As an artist and independent researcher, I was invited by AI policy researcher Bóxī Wú to join the launch of BRAID, a 'UK-wide programme dedicated to integrating Arts and Humanities research more fully into the Responsible AI ecosystem.' BRAID's aim is also to bridge the divides between academic, industry, policy and regulatory work on responsible AI.

September 15, 2023

conference / symposium policy
Huntingdonshire Futures: Collective Imagination Talk and Workshop with The Place Bureau, Residents and Huntingdonshire District Council in St. Ives

For the second Huntingdonshire Futures workshop, I gave a talk with workshop prompts to about 80 participants from throughout the borough, asking them to think about the future of Huntingdonshire through speculative methods and finding the agency of authorship. Alongside other guest speakers, we collectively covered four key topics: People, Place, Economy, Environment, where I was invited by The Place Bureau to engage participants on the environmental futures they are thinking about.

September 27, 2022

talk science fiction policy
Climate Action Summary Report Research Published for UNCOP26 with Julie's Bicycle

Towards UNCOP26, I worked for a year as a Policy Research consultant on international cultural and climate policy at Julie's Bicyle, a leading not-for-profit for a just green transition for the arts sector. I led and conducted desk-based research to combine data from my analysis of publicly available national arts policies of 25 ODA countries, and data from my interviews with leading international arts leaders and government ministers on climate intentions in their sectors where culture intersects (culture/tourism/education). I also supported survey design to gather data from arts and culture bodies with national mandates and cultural ministries, and synthesised insights from in-depth international roundtables that Julie's Bicycle ran as part of the research programme. This report was launched and presented to policymakers at UNCOP26 to consider arts and culture's role in the global, just, green transition. (March 23, 2021 → February 1, 2022)

March 23, 2021

working with policy writing / publication conference / symposium
What Next? Climate Change London Chapter with Julie's Bicycle

I attended three sessions of What Next? Climate Change, an event series for a national community of individuals working in the arts with an interest in culturally mitigating climate change. The London chapter was hosted by Julie's Bicycle, a non-profit arts organisation working towards a green transition in the cultural sector, which I was working for on their Seven Climate Trends campaign that autumn. The sessions have been held at Tara Arts, the UK House of Lords and the National Theatre. (May 16, 2018 → December 13, 2018)

May 17, 2018

workshop participation policy