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Words In Space
Words in Space is the website of Shannon Mattern.
  • “Shelf Life” at Harvard Graduate School of Design (2017)
  • (Counter)Logics and Deep Histories of the Zone (the case of Paju Bookcity) (2014)
  • (You Can’t)-Do-It-Yourself Publishing (2014)
  • A Brief History of the Shelf
  • A City Is Not a Computer
  • A Map That Tracks Everything
  • About
  • Aftertaste (2015)
  • All Eyes on the Border
  • All Your Data Are Belong to Us: Quantifying the Human Condition (2017)
  • Amending Care: An Archaeology of Maintenance (2018)
  • Andrew Cuomo’s COVID-19 Briefings Draw on the Persuasive Authority of PowerPoint
  • Animated Aberrations, Rebellious Objects (on Zoe Beloff)
  • Animated Spaces: Experience and Context in Interaction and Architectural Design Exhibitions
  • Anthropology + Design: Objects, Sites and Systems
  • Anthropology of Networks
  • Archaeologies of Urban Intelligence (2018 – 2019)
  • Archival Aesthetics (2015)
  • Archived Course: Archives, Libraries + Databases
  • Archived Course: City and Sound
  • Archived Course: Digital Archives + Institutional Memory
  • Archived Course: Immediacy: Creating a Multimedia Online Journal
  • Archived Course: Media Education Lab
  • Archived Course: Media Exhibition Design
  • Archived Course: Media Research Methods
  • Archived Course: Media Space | Public Space
  • Archived Course: Media Theory
  • Archived Course: Mediating Spaces
  • Archived Course: Processes of Placemaking
  • Archived Course: Space, Place & Landscape in Contemporary Art
  • Archived Course: Textual Form
  • Archived Course: Urban Media Archaeology
  • Archived: Bookshelves to Big Data: Archaeologies of Knowledge
  • Archiving Learning as a Messy, Partial, and Political Process (2013)
  • Archizines’ Rustling Pages
  • Art Scavenger Hunt (2009)
  • Auditing Urban Intelligence
  • Bad Signal
  • Beyond the Seminar Paper @ CUNY Grad Center (2011)
  • Bibliographic Machines
  • Blog to Book, Space Beer to Ballard: The BLDGBLOG Book
  • Books to Broadband: South Korea’s Paju Bookcity (2012)
  • Boundary Condition: The Interface @ MLA (2017)
  • Broadcasting Space: China Central Television’s New Headquarters
  • Bureaucracy’s Playthings
  • Cabinet Logic (2016)
  • Cabinet Logics: An Intellectual History of Book Furniture (2018)
  • Cabinets, Codes & Catalogues (on Hardware Stores) (2018)
  • Calculative Composition
  • Calculative Composition: The Ethics of Automating Design (2019)
  • Care, Repair and Maintenance (2020)
  • Cartographic Archive (2015)
  • Catastrophe Slam: 2009
  • Chainbuilding: The Signature Building for the New New School
  • Civic Infrastructure Summit (2018)
  • Click/Scan/Bold: The New Materiality of Architectural Discourse and Its Counter-Publics
  • Closet Archive
  • Cloud and Field (on field guides to global digital systems)
  • Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: 5000 Years of Urban Media
  • Code, Craft & Catalogues: Arts in the Libraries: 2019
  • Coding Urban Pasts + Presents (2018)
  • Collect + Control (2017)
  • Commoning the City (2020)
  • Community Plumbing (on hardware stores)
  • Conceptual Units: How Our Knowledge Institutions Materialize Intellectual and Cultural Values (2014)
  • Critical Futures 3 @ Storefront (2011)
  • Critiquing Platform Thinking (2014)
  • Curating Collections + Community @ Poets House (2015)
  • Curating, Conserving + Preserving (2013)
  • Data Archive Infrastructure
  • Data Artifacts, Infrastructures + Landscapes
  • Data Ecologies: A Green New Deal for Climate and Tech Reform (2020)
  • Data Fantasies and Operational Facts: 5G’s Infrastructural Epistemologies (2019)
  • Databodies in Codespace (on precision medicine and data-driven urban planning)
  • DataCase
  • DataSpaces: InFORMing the Urban Landscape (2013)
  • Deep and Mattering Cities (2017)
  • Deep Mapping the Media City
  • Deep Time of Media Infrastructure
  • Deep Time of Media Infrastructure (2012)
  • Delicious: Renovating the Mnemonic Architectures of Bookmarking
  • Democratizing the Archives: 2012-2014
  • Designing Methodologies
  • Designing Multisensory Exhibitions (2012)
  • Digital Frictions Series @ Urban Omnibus
  • Dirty Media Archaeology (2012)
  • Ear to the Wire: Listening to Historic Urban Infrastructures
  • Edge Blending: Light, Crystalline Fluidity, and the Materiality of New Media at Gehry’s IAC Headquarters
  • Embracing the Formalist Mantle
  • Emergent Infrastructures: 2013-2015
  • Encrypted Repositories
  • Encrypted Repositories (2018 – 2019)
  • Equipment for Redemptive Living
  • Ether / Ore: An Atlas of Urban Media (2018)
  • Ether and Ore: An Archaeology of Urban Intelligences
  • Evaluating Multimodal Work, Revisited
  • Executable Spatial Scripts
  • Extract and Preserve: Underground Repositories for a Posthuman Future
  • FAMILIA: Corporeal Care and Affective Ties
  • Field Archives: Ice, Sediment, and Soil as Document (2017)
  • Fifty (Thousand) Eyes on a Scene (2018)
  • Fluid Text, Total Design: The Woodberry Poetry Room as Idea, Collection, and Place
  • Fluttering Code: A Cultural and Aesthetic History of the Split-Flap Display
  • Font of a Nation: Creating a National Graphic Identity for Qatar
  • Fugitive Libraries
  • Furnishing Intelligence
  • Furnishing the Cloud: 2015
  • Geometries of Reading, Light of Learning: Louis I. Kahn’s Library at Phillips Exeter
  • Glimmer: Refracting Rock (2019 – 2020)
  • Graduate Institute of Design, Ethnography + Social Thought: 2014-2015
  • Hearing Infrastructure (2012)
  • How to Graft a City
  • How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables
  • In Rare Fashion: Special Collections’ Infrastructural Aesthetics (2014)
  • In Wild Air
  • In-formation (2018)
  • Indexical Landscapes (2015)
  • Indexical Landscapes: 2015
  • Indexing the World of Tomorrow
  • Infernal Archive: Medial States of Matter in the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
  • Information Professional (Dutch) Interview
  • Infrastructural Intelligence (2016)
  • Infrastructural Tourism
  • Infrastructures for Tomorrow’s Urban Intelligences
  • Instrumental City: The View from Hudson Yards, circa 2019
  • Intellectual Furnishings (2014)
  • Interfaces Aren’t Just Screens (2019)
  • Interfacing Urban Intelligence
  • Interfacing Urban Intelligence (2014)
  • Just How Public Is the Seattle Public Library? Publicity, Posturing and Politics in Public Design
  • Learning from Lines: Critical COVID Visualizations and the Quarantine Quotidian
  • Learning from the Library (without Cracking a Book) (2015)
  • Lebbeus Woods: The Politics of Small Things (2014)
  • Libraries + DIY Learning (2011)
  • Library as Emergent Infrastructure (2014)
  • Library as Infrastructure
  • Library Design Workshop (2015)
  • Lines+Nodes: Media, Infrastructure, Aesthetics: 2014
  • Local Codes: Forms of Spatial Knowledge
  • Local Codes: Forms of Spatial Knowledge (2018)
  • Looking from a Distance (2020)
  • Machines, Ecologies, Operating Systems, Parasites: City as Metaphor (2018)
  • Maintenance and Care
  • Map as Metaphor (2016)
  • Mapping as Method and Medium (2018)
  • Mapping Intelligent Agents (2017)
  • Mapping Time (2015)
  • Mapping Urban Media Infrastructures (2019)
  • Mapping’s Intelligent Agents
  • Maps Are Public Media (2018)
  • Maps as Media
  • Mapwashing: Co-Opting Civic Design (2019)
  • Marginalia: Little Libraries in the Urban Margins
  • Media + Architecture
  • Media + Materiality
  • Media Archaeology of Poetry and Sound
  • Media Architecture + Archaeologies (2015)
  • Media, in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
  • Methodolatry and the Art of Measure: The New Wave of Urban Data Science
  • Middlewhere: Landscapes of Library Logistics
  • Minimal Maintenance
  • Minimal Maintenance (2019)
  • Mission Control: A History of the Dashboard
  • Mud, Media + the Metropolis (2016)
  • Networked Dream Worlds (on 5G)
  • Notes, Lists, and Everyday Inscriptions
  • Of Mud, Media, and the Metropolis: Aggregating Histories of Writing and Urbanization
  • On Index Cards and Infrastructures (2017)
  • Our Libraries Aren’t Failing Us, We’re Failing Them
  • Pageantry of Paperwork: The 1939 World’s Fair, Remington Rand, and Designerly Filing (2015)
  • Paju Bookcity: The Next Chapter
  • Paper, Ash & Air: Material Remembering (2011)
  • PhDs for Polymaths (2011)
  • Platform Shift: Teaching on (Intentionally) Shaky Ground (2013)
  • Plurality in Place: Activating Public Places in Seattle
  • Post-It Note City (on the aesthetics of participatory design)
  • Precedents for Experimentation: Talking Libraries with Shannon Mattern and Nate Hill
  • Preservation Aesthetics
  • Preservation Aesthetics @ Library of Congress (2014)
  • Preserving Yesterday’s Tech to Get a Better Grasp on Today’s
  • Privacy in Public: A Distributed Exhibition: 2018-2019
  • Project Media Space | Public Space: 2005-2006
  • Public In/Formation
  • Puffs of Air: Communicating by Vacuum
  • Radical Shifts (2011)
  • Radio City: Sound, Space + the City (2012)
  • Re-envisioning Branch Libraries: 2014-2015
  • Re-Imagining the Public Library (2017)
  • Re/Lab: 2014-2016
  • Resonant Texts: Sounds of the Contemporary American Public Library
  • Response to “Ethnography: A Prototype” (2017)
  • Response to “The Politics of Sorting at Borders” (2016)
  • Review of Hillel Schwartz’s Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond
  • Review of Mark Shepard, Ed., The Sentient City
  • Review of Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects
  • San Francisco; or, How to Destroy a City
  • Scaffolding, Hard and Soft: Infrastructures as Critical and Generative Structures (2014)
  • Scaffolding, Hard and Soft: Media Infrastructures as Critical and Generative Structures
  • SCMS Mapping Workshop (2011)
  • Sharing Is Tables: Furniture for Digital Labor
  • Sidewalk’s Sidewalk: A Pedestrian View of Sidewalk Toronto (2019)
  • Silent, Invisible City: Mediating Urban Experience for the Other Senses
  • Site Object Experience: Designing Material Media Spaces (2011)
  • Slide Decks of Salvation (2020)
  • Small Moving Parts (2017)
  • Smart Cities? Impossible, Political + Measuring Objects: 2017
  • Sonic Archaeologies
  • Sorting Things Out
  • Sorting Things Out II (SFPC 2018)
  • Sound + Space
  • Sound Studies: Framing Noise
  • Sound@NewSchool: 2012-2013
  • Sounding the Commons (2018)
  • Sounding Towers
  • SoundMatter @ CUNY Grad Center (2011)
  • Spatial Organization of Media (2015)
  • Speculative Archaeology
  • Stacks, Platforms, Interfaces: A Field Guide to Information Spaces (2017)
  • Strata of Sentience: Deep Mapping the Media City (2015)
  • Student Resources
  • Supply and Command (2018)
  • Testimonial Tables
  • The Archival Apparatus
  • The Big Data of Ice, Rocks, Soils, and Sediments
  • The Cultural Techniques (+ Political Economy) of Theory-Making (2013)
  • The Gentle Wind Doth Move Visibly
  • The Housing System: State of Good Repair (2019)
  • The Library’s Other Intelligences: MOBIUS Fellowship with the Finnish Cultural Institute NY: 2017-2019
  • The Materiality of Radical Media (2012)
  • The New Downtown Library: Designing with Communities
  • The New Everyday
  • The Pulse of Global Passage: Listening to Logistics (2018)
  • The Role of Libraries in the Digital Age (2020)
  • The Spectacle of Data: A Century of Fiches, Fairs and Fantasies
  • The Visual Rhetoric of Resilient Urbanism (2015)
  • The Vitality of the Archives (2015)
  • The World Silicon Valley Made
  • Things that Beep: A Brief History of Product Sound Design
  • Thinking Through Interfaces
  • Time’s Interfaces (2017)
  • Timelines, Tickers, Maps + Dashboards (2016)
  • Tools: Anvils to Androids
  • Tuning into the Invisible: Roman Mars’s 99% Invisible
  • Typology of Topologies (+ Hearing and Smelling Infrastructure) (2016)
  • Understanding Media Studies
  • Understanding Media Studies Lecture Series: 2017
  • Understanding Media Studies Speaker Series: 2014-2015
  • Upcoming Events
  • Urban Auscultation
  • Urban Intelligence
  • Urban Research + Mobile Media (2011)
  • Urban Research Toolkit: 2009-2013
  • Urban Scanner (Interview)
  • Urban Software Art: Spaces of Critical Engagement
  • Using PowerPoint, Artists Ask How Performative Presentations Shape Our Thinking
  • Wikipedia + Feminist Epistemology (2015)
  • Willful Transgressions: Transdisciplinary Teaching (2018)
  • Wonder and Number: Panoramic Sensing (2017)
  • Woven Circuits
  • “Shelf Life” at Harvard Graduate School of Design (2017)
  • (Counter)Logics and Deep Histories of the Zone (the case of Paju Bookcity) (2014)
  • (You Can’t)-Do-It-Yourself Publishing (2014)
  • A Brief History of the Shelf
  • A City Is Not a Computer
  • A Map That Tracks Everything
  • About
  • Aftertaste (2015)
  • All Eyes on the Border
  • All Your Data Are Belong to Us: Quantifying the Human Condition (2017)
  • Amending Care: An Archaeology of Maintenance (2018)
  • Andrew Cuomo’s COVID-19 Briefings Draw on the Persuasive Authority of PowerPoint
  • Animated Aberrations, Rebellious Objects (on Zoe Beloff)
  • Animated Spaces: Experience and Context in Interaction and Architectural Design Exhibitions
  • Anthropology + Design: Objects, Sites and Systems
  • Anthropology of Networks
  • Archaeologies of Urban Intelligence (2018 – 2019)
  • Archival Aesthetics (2015)
  • Archived Course: Archives, Libraries + Databases
  • Archived Course: City and Sound
  • Archived Course: Digital Archives + Institutional Memory
  • Archived Course: Immediacy: Creating a Multimedia Online Journal
  • Archived Course: Media Education Lab
  • Archived Course: Media Exhibition Design
  • Archived Course: Media Research Methods
  • Archived Course: Media Space | Public Space
  • Archived Course: Media Theory
  • Archived Course: Mediating Spaces
  • Archived Course: Processes of Placemaking
  • Archived Course: Space, Place & Landscape in Contemporary Art
  • Archived Course: Textual Form
  • Archived Course: Urban Media Archaeology
  • Archived: Bookshelves to Big Data: Archaeologies of Knowledge
  • Archiving Learning as a Messy, Partial, and Political Process (2013)
  • Archizines’ Rustling Pages
  • Art Scavenger Hunt (2009)
  • Auditing Urban Intelligence
  • Bad Signal
  • Beyond the Seminar Paper @ CUNY Grad Center (2011)
  • Bibliographic Machines
  • Blog to Book, Space Beer to Ballard: The BLDGBLOG Book
  • Books to Broadband: South Korea’s Paju Bookcity (2012)
  • Boundary Condition: The Interface @ MLA (2017)
  • Broadcasting Space: China Central Television’s New Headquarters
  • Bureaucracy’s Playthings
  • Cabinet Logic (2016)
  • Cabinet Logics: An Intellectual History of Book Furniture (2018)
  • Cabinets, Codes & Catalogues (on Hardware Stores) (2018)
  • Calculative Composition
  • Calculative Composition: The Ethics of Automating Design (2019)
  • Care, Repair and Maintenance (2020)
  • Cartographic Archive (2015)
  • Catastrophe Slam: 2009
  • Chainbuilding: The Signature Building for the New New School
  • Civic Infrastructure Summit (2018)
  • Click/Scan/Bold: The New Materiality of Architectural Discourse and Its Counter-Publics
  • Closet Archive
  • Cloud and Field (on field guides to global digital systems)
  • Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: 5000 Years of Urban Media
  • Code, Craft & Catalogues: Arts in the Libraries: 2019
  • Coding Urban Pasts + Presents (2018)
  • Collect + Control (2017)
  • Commoning the City (2020)
  • Community Plumbing (on hardware stores)
  • Conceptual Units: How Our Knowledge Institutions Materialize Intellectual and Cultural Values (2014)
  • Critical Futures 3 @ Storefront (2011)
  • Critiquing Platform Thinking (2014)
  • Curating Collections + Community @ Poets House (2015)
  • Curating, Conserving + Preserving (2013)
  • Data Archive Infrastructure
  • Data Artifacts, Infrastructures + Landscapes
  • Data Ecologies: A Green New Deal for Climate and Tech Reform (2020)
  • Data Fantasies and Operational Facts: 5G’s Infrastructural Epistemologies (2019)
  • Databodies in Codespace (on precision medicine and data-driven urban planning)
  • DataCase
  • DataSpaces: InFORMing the Urban Landscape (2013)
  • Deep and Mattering Cities (2017)
  • Deep Mapping the Media City
  • Deep Time of Media Infrastructure
  • Deep Time of Media Infrastructure (2012)
  • Delicious: Renovating the Mnemonic Architectures of Bookmarking
  • Democratizing the Archives: 2012-2014
  • Designing Methodologies
  • Designing Multisensory Exhibitions (2012)
  • Digital Frictions Series @ Urban Omnibus
  • Dirty Media Archaeology (2012)
  • Ear to the Wire: Listening to Historic Urban Infrastructures
  • Edge Blending: Light, Crystalline Fluidity, and the Materiality of New Media at Gehry’s IAC Headquarters
  • Embracing the Formalist Mantle
  • Emergent Infrastructures: 2013-2015
  • Encrypted Repositories
  • Encrypted Repositories (2018 – 2019)
  • Equipment for Redemptive Living
  • Ether / Ore: An Atlas of Urban Media (2018)
  • Ether and Ore: An Archaeology of Urban Intelligences
  • Evaluating Multimodal Work, Revisited
  • Executable Spatial Scripts
  • Extract and Preserve: Underground Repositories for a Posthuman Future
  • FAMILIA: Corporeal Care and Affective Ties
  • Field Archives: Ice, Sediment, and Soil as Document (2017)
  • Fifty (Thousand) Eyes on a Scene (2018)
  • Fluid Text, Total Design: The Woodberry Poetry Room as Idea, Collection, and Place
  • Fluttering Code: A Cultural and Aesthetic History of the Split-Flap Display
  • Font of a Nation: Creating a National Graphic Identity for Qatar
  • Fugitive Libraries
  • Furnishing Intelligence
  • Furnishing the Cloud: 2015
  • Geometries of Reading, Light of Learning: Louis I. Kahn’s Library at Phillips Exeter
  • Glimmer: Refracting Rock (2019 – 2020)
  • Graduate Institute of Design, Ethnography + Social Thought: 2014-2015
  • Hearing Infrastructure (2012)
  • How to Graft a City
  • How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables
  • In Rare Fashion: Special Collections’ Infrastructural Aesthetics (2014)
  • In Wild Air
  • In-formation (2018)
  • Indexical Landscapes (2015)
  • Indexical Landscapes: 2015
  • Indexing the World of Tomorrow
  • Infernal Archive: Medial States of Matter in the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
  • Information Professional (Dutch) Interview
  • Infrastructural Intelligence (2016)
  • Infrastructural Tourism
  • Infrastructures for Tomorrow’s Urban Intelligences
  • Instrumental City: The View from Hudson Yards, circa 2019
  • Intellectual Furnishings (2014)
  • Interfaces Aren’t Just Screens (2019)
  • Interfacing Urban Intelligence
  • Interfacing Urban Intelligence (2014)
  • Just How Public Is the Seattle Public Library? Publicity, Posturing and Politics in Public Design
  • Learning from Lines: Critical COVID Visualizations and the Quarantine Quotidian
  • Learning from the Library (without Cracking a Book) (2015)
  • Lebbeus Woods: The Politics of Small Things (2014)
  • Libraries + DIY Learning (2011)
  • Library as Emergent Infrastructure (2014)
  • Library as Infrastructure
  • Library Design Workshop (2015)
  • Lines+Nodes: Media, Infrastructure, Aesthetics: 2014
  • Local Codes: Forms of Spatial Knowledge
  • Local Codes: Forms of Spatial Knowledge (2018)
  • Looking from a Distance (2020)
  • Machines, Ecologies, Operating Systems, Parasites: City as Metaphor (2018)
  • Maintenance and Care
  • Map as Metaphor (2016)
  • Mapping as Method and Medium (2018)
  • Mapping Intelligent Agents (2017)
  • Mapping Time (2015)
  • Mapping Urban Media Infrastructures (2019)
  • Mapping’s Intelligent Agents
  • Maps Are Public Media (2018)
  • Maps as Media
  • Mapwashing: Co-Opting Civic Design (2019)
  • Marginalia: Little Libraries in the Urban Margins
  • Media + Architecture
  • Media + Materiality
  • Media Archaeology of Poetry and Sound
  • Media Architecture + Archaeologies (2015)
  • Media, in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
  • Methodolatry and the Art of Measure: The New Wave of Urban Data Science
  • Middlewhere: Landscapes of Library Logistics
  • Minimal Maintenance
  • Minimal Maintenance (2019)
  • Mission Control: A History of the Dashboard
  • Mud, Media + the Metropolis (2016)
  • Networked Dream Worlds (on 5G)
  • Notes, Lists, and Everyday Inscriptions
  • Of Mud, Media, and the Metropolis: Aggregating Histories of Writing and Urbanization
  • On Index Cards and Infrastructures (2017)
  • Our Libraries Aren’t Failing Us, We’re Failing Them
  • Pageantry of Paperwork: The 1939 World’s Fair, Remington Rand, and Designerly Filing (2015)
  • Paju Bookcity: The Next Chapter
  • Paper, Ash & Air: Material Remembering (2011)
  • PhDs for Polymaths (2011)
  • Platform Shift: Teaching on (Intentionally) Shaky Ground (2013)
  • Plurality in Place: Activating Public Places in Seattle
  • Post-It Note City (on the aesthetics of participatory design)
  • Precedents for Experimentation: Talking Libraries with Shannon Mattern and Nate Hill
  • Preservation Aesthetics
  • Preservation Aesthetics @ Library of Congress (2014)
  • Preserving Yesterday’s Tech to Get a Better Grasp on Today’s
  • Privacy in Public: A Distributed Exhibition: 2018-2019
  • Project Media Space | Public Space: 2005-2006
  • Public In/Formation
  • Puffs of Air: Communicating by Vacuum
  • Radical Shifts (2011)
  • Radio City: Sound, Space + the City (2012)
  • Re-envisioning Branch Libraries: 2014-2015
  • Re-Imagining the Public Library (2017)
  • Re/Lab: 2014-2016
  • Resonant Texts: Sounds of the Contemporary American Public Library
  • Response to “Ethnography: A Prototype” (2017)
  • Response to “The Politics of Sorting at Borders” (2016)
  • Review of Hillel Schwartz’s Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond
  • Review of Mark Shepard, Ed., The Sentient City
  • Review of Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects
  • San Francisco; or, How to Destroy a City
  • Scaffolding, Hard and Soft: Infrastructures as Critical and Generative Structures (2014)
  • Scaffolding, Hard and Soft: Media Infrastructures as Critical and Generative Structures
  • SCMS Mapping Workshop (2011)
  • Sharing Is Tables: Furniture for Digital Labor
  • Sidewalk’s Sidewalk: A Pedestrian View of Sidewalk Toronto (2019)
  • Silent, Invisible City: Mediating Urban Experience for the Other Senses
  • Site Object Experience: Designing Material Media Spaces (2011)
  • Slide Decks of Salvation (2020)
  • Small Moving Parts (2017)
  • Smart Cities? Impossible, Political + Measuring Objects: 2017
  • Sonic Archaeologies
  • Sorting Things Out
  • Sorting Things Out II (SFPC 2018)
  • Sound + Space
  • Sound Studies: Framing Noise
  • Sound@NewSchool: 2012-2013
  • Sounding the Commons (2018)
  • Sounding Towers
  • SoundMatter @ CUNY Grad Center (2011)
  • Spatial Organization of Media (2015)
  • Speculative Archaeology
  • Stacks, Platforms, Interfaces: A Field Guide to Information Spaces (2017)
  • Strata of Sentience: Deep Mapping the Media City (2015)
  • Student Resources
  • Supply and Command (2018)
  • Testimonial Tables
  • The Archival Apparatus
  • The Big Data of Ice, Rocks, Soils, and Sediments
  • The Cultural Techniques (+ Political Economy) of Theory-Making (2013)
  • The Gentle Wind Doth Move Visibly
  • The Housing System: State of Good Repair (2019)
  • The Library’s Other Intelligences: MOBIUS Fellowship with the Finnish Cultural Institute NY: 2017-2019
  • The Materiality of Radical Media (2012)
  • The New Downtown Library: Designing with Communities
  • The New Everyday
  • The Pulse of Global Passage: Listening to Logistics (2018)
  • The Role of Libraries in the Digital Age (2020)
  • The Spectacle of Data: A Century of Fiches, Fairs and Fantasies
  • The Visual Rhetoric of Resilient Urbanism (2015)
  • The Vitality of the Archives (2015)
  • The World Silicon Valley Made
  • Things that Beep: A Brief History of Product Sound Design
  • Thinking Through Interfaces
  • Time’s Interfaces (2017)
  • Timelines, Tickers, Maps + Dashboards (2016)
  • Tools: Anvils to Androids
  • Tuning into the Invisible: Roman Mars’s 99% Invisible
  • Typology of Topologies (+ Hearing and Smelling Infrastructure) (2016)
  • Understanding Media Studies
  • Understanding Media Studies Lecture Series: 2017
  • Understanding Media Studies Speaker Series: 2014-2015
  • Upcoming Events
  • Urban Auscultation
  • Urban Intelligence
  • Urban Research + Mobile Media (2011)
  • Urban Research Toolkit: 2009-2013
  • Urban Scanner (Interview)
  • Urban Software Art: Spaces of Critical Engagement
  • Using PowerPoint, Artists Ask How Performative Presentations Shape Our Thinking
  • Wikipedia + Feminist Epistemology (2015)
  • Willful Transgressions: Transdisciplinary Teaching (2018)
  • Wonder and Number: Panoramic Sensing (2017)
  • Woven Circuits

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  • Glimmer: Refracting Rock
  • Purity and Security: Towards a Cultural History of Plexiglass
  • Digital Ethnography
  • Mapping the Field
  • Fluttering Codes: A Cultural History of the Spit Flap
  • Urban Auscultation: ABC Radio
  • Encrypted Repositories

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