a complete list of all material currently available online written by laura watts
Poetry
Liminal Futures, performed at 'Subversion Conversion Development' CRASSH, University of Cambridge; abstract also available.
Excerpt from a board meeting in the mobile telecoms industry, also in unpublished PhD thesis 'A Future Archaeology of the Mobile Telecoms Industry' Lancaster University UK.
Ethnography of a design studio in the mobile telecoms industry, also in unpublished PhD thesis 'A Future Archaeology of the Mobile Telecoms Industry' Lancaster University UK.
Inventory of Found Objects: Lancaster to Penzance (27th July 2005), written during ethnography of train travel.
Podcasts
Orkney: Landscapes of Future Resistance, performed at 4S/EASST 2008, Erasmus University Rotterdam (requires Quicktime).
Liminal Futures, performed at 'Subversion Conversion Development' CRASSH, University of Cambridge; abstract also available.
Sand14: Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, also in unpublished PhD thesis 'A Future Archaeology of the Mobile Telecoms Industry' Lancaster University UK.
Papers
Orkney: Landscapes of Future Resistance, performed at 4S/EASST 2008, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
The Future is Boring: Stories from the landscapes of the mobile telecoms industry, first performed at 'Future Matters: Futures known, created, minded' Cardiff University; also published in 21st Century Society: Journal of the Academy of the Social Sciences.
Manga, Myths, and Magic: Playing with the future in the mobile telecoms industry, first performed at Institute for Media Literacy, Annenberg Center for Communication, University of Southern California.
Towards an Archaeology of the Future, first performed at 4S 2006, Pasadena.
Designing the Future: Fables from the mobile telecoms industry, also published as a chapter in Thumb Culture: the meaning of mobile phones for society.
The Train, the Window, and the Mobile Phone Designer: a story of travel-time use in the high-speed cellular age, performed at 'Senses in Transition: mobility in the city' University of Salford.
Travel Remedy Kit: Interventions into Train Lines and Passengers, performed at Centre for Transport & Society, University of the West of England.
The Art and Craft of Train Travel, first performed at Cosmobilities, Berlin; also version with accompanying video; also published in Journal of Social and Cultural Geography.
Travel Times, or Journeys with Ada, performance at stakeholder meeting for Travel-Time Use in the Information Age at UK government Department of Transport, London.
Moving Methods, Travelling Times, written with John Urry at Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University; also published in Environment & Planning D: Society & Space.
Interactive papers
An ethnograher's guide to: Making a train journey, online interactive paper created as part of the Travel-Time Use in the Information Age project.