# fieldwork (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 6 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover fieldwork. Page: Feed: --- ## [Fieldwork #23 - Decoding Colour](https://nishavanderhoven.substack.com/p/fieldwork-23-decoding-colour) _2026-08-19 · Nisha van der Hoven · Field Guide to Design_ A Colourful Truth ## [Fieldwork #22 - It’s Summer, Somewhere](https://nishavanderhoven.substack.com/p/fieldwork-22-its-summer-somewhere) _2026-08-13 · Nisha van der Hoven · Field Guide to Design_ A Summer State of Mind ## [Upcoming](https://denisestartin.co.uk/2026/08/06/upcoming/) _2026-08-06 · startind · (untitled)_ ## [Fieldwork #21 - The Design of Attention](https://nishavanderhoven.substack.com/p/fieldwork-21-the-design-of-attention) _2026-08-04 · Nisha van der Hoven · Field Guide to Design_ Two Ways of Seeing the Same World ## [Letters to the Landscape, Script as Score – A Tale of Two Films](https://denisestartin.co.uk/2026/07/22/letters-to-the-landscape-script-as-score-a-tale-of-two-films/) _2026-07-22 · startind · (untitled)_ Upcoming Performance Lecture, Space@Design Gallery, Friday August 21st midday. This performance lecture unfolds as a sound-only verbal cinema where three voices reconstruct and reimagine a visual object withheld from view. One performer reads from a 1920 s shooting script, it s DAY numbers, SHOT labels and camera directions forming a ghostly architecture of a film that has Continue reading Letters… ## [Fieldwork #20 - What We Keep](https://nishavanderhoven.substack.com/p/fieldwork-20-what-we-keep) _2026-07-21 · Nisha van der Hoven · Field Guide to Design_ Choosing objects and discovering ourselves in the process. ## [Fieldwork #19 - Between Worlds](https://nishavanderhoven.substack.com/p/fieldwork-19-between-worlds) _2026-07-14 · Nisha van der Hoven · Field Guide to Design_ Shifting Rhythms and Navigating Re-entry ## [Fieldwork #18 - The Field Kit](https://nishavanderhoven.substack.com/p/fieldwork-18-the-field-kit) _2026-06-30 · Nisha van der Hoven · Field Guide to Design_ My Rituals in Preparation ## [Fieldwork #17 - Speechless](https://nishavanderhoven.substack.com/p/fieldwork-17-speechless) _2026-06-23 · Nisha van der Hoven · Field Guide to Design_ When Thinking Goes Public ## [Letters to the Landscape Exhibition](https://denisestartin.co.uk/2026/06/18/letters-to-the-landscape-exhibition/) _2026-06-18 · startind · (untitled)_ Letters to the Landscape investigates the entangled relations between Brontë Country and the imaginative terrain of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847), situating the moorland as a site where cultural memory, literary inheritance, and embodied fieldwork converge. Operating at the intersection of autobiography, polyphony, and archival drift, the project examines how landscapes function as… ## [Open directory of blogs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/IkixDr429qeE) _2026-06-18 · **Sponsored**_ Drop URLs or OPML — get per-blog pages plus machine-readable JSON, OPML, text ## [Fieldwork #16 - Chaos and Composure](https://nishavanderhoven.substack.com/p/fieldwork-16-chaos-and-composure) _2026-06-16 · Nisha van der Hoven · Field Guide to Design_ From Existential Crisis to Curation ## [Fieldwork #15 - The Death of Mystery](https://nishavanderhoven.substack.com/p/fieldwork-15-the-death-of-mystery) _2026-06-09 · Nisha van der Hoven · Field Guide to Design_ Notes from a lived field study ## [Fieldwork #14 - Going Dark](https://nishavanderhoven.substack.com/p/fieldwork-14-going-dark) _2026-06-03 · Nisha van der Hoven · Field Guide to Design_ A lived field study ## [Extract from Film Intro – Letters to the Landscape](https://denisestartin.co.uk/2026/04/01/extract-from-film-intro-letters-to-the-landscape/) _2026-04-01 · startind · (untitled)_ ## [“No” is a good way to limit “AI” risks.](https://www.spatialised.net/no-ai/) _2026-03-15 · Adam · Spatialised_ In the last few years we’ve seen a huge increase in the prevalence of class of computational tools labelled as “AI” – or Artificial Intelligence. Increasingly in 2025/26 there has been an uptick in the concept of “GeoAI” – applying these tools to geospatial and geographic problem spaces. They’ve come with an incredible hype cycle… Read More » “No” is a good way to limit “AI” risks. ## [Episode 4: A Lovers Spat](https://denisestartin.co.uk/2026/03/11/episode-4-a-lovers-spat/) _2026-03-11 · startind · (untitled)_ Silent gravel in the driveway, deafening clock in the hall, everything whispers anxiously. A back is turned to hide its increasing anxiety, compulsive shrugs walk away. Her shoulders wet with thunder settle like a paper cut on her soul. Confused by the bearing of the question successfully she feigns interest. Her nose wrinkles, he shifts Continue reading Episode 4: A Lovers Spat ## [Tacita Dean: Significant Form](https://denisestartin.co.uk/2026/03/05/tacita-dean-significant-form/) _2026-03-05 · startind · (untitled)_ Installation image of Significant Form, Tacita Dean at The Hepworth Wakefield. Photo: Nick Singleton Tacita Dean was introduced to the work of Barbara Hepworth and the St Ives School of artists while studying at Falmouth School of Art. She found a particular affinity with Hepworth’s interest in Cornish landscapes, the natural rock formations, the coastal paths and the ancient standing stones. Like… ## [Paper Abstract: Excavating the Ephemeral through Performative Archival Practice: Fact, Fiction and Fieldwork, AAH Symposium, Cambridge 2026](https://denisestartin.co.uk/2026/02/26/paper-abstract-excavating-the-ephemeral-through-performative-archival-practice-fact-fiction-and-fieldwork-aah-symposium-cambridge-2025/) _2026-02-26 · startind · (untitled)_ Film Still: Episode 1, Epistles, Letters to the Landscape 2025. Moving-image, approx. 32 minutes Contemporary artists are increasingly challenging the boundaries of the archive and authorship through fictional strategies and non-traditional materials. This paper offers a methodological reflection on the use of fictional personae as narrative interlocutors within my practice-led PhD research,… ## [AAH Annual Conference, University of Cambridge](https://denisestartin.co.uk/2026/02/25/aah-annual-conference-university-of-cambridge/) _2026-02-25 · startind · (untitled)_ I am pleased to announce I will be presenting at the above conference in April, responding to the panel Art History: Facts and Fiction? My paper is entitled: Excavating the Ephemeral through Performative Archival Practice: Fact, Fiction and Fieldwork. This panel explores a neglected tradition in art history: the strategic use of fictional elements in Continue reading AAH Annual Conference,… ## [Episode 3 The Reluctant Pilgrim](https://denisestartin.co.uk/2026/02/16/episode-3-the-reluctant-pilgrim/) _2026-02-16 · startind · (untitled)_ The ice on the path snapped, crackled and splintered underneath the soles of their walking boots. The ground was frozen solid. She felt as though she were walking with two blocks of ice strapped to her feet. She could feel the ground in her knees. The sound of her boots walking on frozen ground was Continue reading Episode 3 The Reluctant Pilgrim ## [International money transfers (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/4IP6zM6bXTTA) _2026-02-16 · **Sponsored**_ Send money to other countries and manage multi‑currency balances online. ## [Mapping Cultures](https://denisestartin.co.uk/2026/02/09/mapping-cultures/) _2026-02-09 · startind · (untitled)_ Mapping Cultures is a collection of essays exploring the diverse practices and cultures of mapping on the one hand, and the mapping of different forms of cultural practice on the other. The book draws on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, including critical cartography, social anthropology, film and cultural studies, literary studies, art and visual Continue reading Mapping Cultures ## [More writing, more fun](https://charlesmartinshields.com/2025/12/15/more-writing-more-fun/) _2025-12-15 · Charles Martin-Shields · Charles P. Martin-Shields_ I haven t blogged much in the last few years, largely on account of taking on more management responsibility in my research projects. This is the nature of research career progression: You work on other peoples projects doing fieldwork, publishing, building your CV, yearning for the day when you will have the power. Then you take Continue reading More writing, more fun ## [The bicycle model of interoperability](https://www.spatialised.net/the-bicycle-model-of-interoperability/) _2025-10-03 · Adam · Spatialised_ This is a story about data principles – specifically one component of the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data principles. Most of the things in the FAIR list are pretty straightforward, and most people agree on what findable means. Accessible is a little contentious – views sit on a spectrum between “chuck it on an… Read More » The bicycle model of interoperability ## [An Armenian archive](https://stephenjones.blog/2025/10/02/armenian-archive/) _2025-10-02 · StephenJones.blog · Stephen Jones: a blog_ A recent talk at the Orient-Institut in Istanbul, when Ara Dinkjian (son of the great Onnik) and Vahé Tachjian introduced early recordings of Armenian classics, led me to the impressive website Houshamadyan: a project to reconstruct Ottoman Armenian town and village life. With navigational aids, including useful context here, the site covers local Armenian communities \[…\] ## [Serendipitous courtesy](https://stephenjones.blog/2025/09/29/serendipitous-courtesy/) _2025-09-29 · StephenJones.blog · Stephen Jones: a blog_ In our modern world, the flight booking reference consists of a seemingly random combo of six letters and numbers, so on booking my recent flights for Istanbul I was impressed to find the last three letters FND which one might suppose to be a quaint honorific that is tailor-made for a trip to Turkey… Surely \[…\] ## [A new rebetika volume](https://stephenjones.blog/2025/09/21/new-rebetika-vol/) _2025-09-21 · StephenJones.blog · Stephen Jones: a blog_ After my dabblings with Songs of Asia Minor, Road to rebetika, and Folk traditions of Greece, I’m browsing the new volume The SOAS rebetiko reader: a selection of papers associated with the Hydra rebetiko conferences 2000-2020 and seminars held at the School of Oriental & African Studies, London (2025) (online here), edited by Ed Emery, \[…\] ## [In memory of David Hughes](https://stephenjones.blog/2025/09/16/in-memory-of-david-hughes/) _2025-09-16 · StephenJones.blog · Stephen Jones: a blog_ Source: CHIME newsletter. On Sunday SOAS hosted a grand celebration of the life of the great ethnomusicologist David Hughes (1945–2025), who died in May. Among many notices online, see this by Rachel Harris and Hwee-san Tan; Frank Kouwenhoven wrote eloquently in the CHIME newsletter. After embarking on a PhD in ethnomusicology at Michigan under William \[…\] ## [Prizes for Gaoluo film!](https://stephenjones.blog/2025/09/11/gaoluo-film-prizes/) _2025-09-11 · StephenJones.blog · Stephen Jones: a blog_ I’m most gratified that my film Seated at the altar, on the 1995 New Year’s rituals in Gaoluo village, was awarded two prizes at the Chinese Musics Ethnographic Film Festival (CMEFF) International Biennial of Audiovisual Ethnomusicology, held in July at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. In addition to the Bronze Award, it received the Intangible \[…\] ## [Echoes of Great Brightness](https://stephenjones.blog/2025/09/07/echoes-of-great-brightness/) _2025-09-07 · StephenJones.blog · Stephen Jones: a blog_ An international conference in honour of Craig Clunas will be held on 16–17 September at Lincoln College, Oxford, bringing together leading scholars in the field of Ming studies and art history. From the publicity: The Ming period (1368–1644) is central to our understanding of Chinese art, both as the time when many key texts and \[…\] ## [Mahler at this year’s Proms!](https://stephenjones.blog/2025/08/26/mahler-2025-proms/) _2025-08-26 · StephenJones.blog · Stephen Jones: a blog_ By way of reminding you of my series on the great Gustav Mahler, some brief comments on the three symphonies of his performed at this year’s Proms, while I consult Norman Lebrecht’s handy guide Why Mahler?, marvelling at Mahler’s busy conducting schedule amidst the tribulations of his personal life. Nothing can be so overwhelming as \[…\] ## [Screen Share With Real Control (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/GxtyTdBaBFic) _2025-08-26 · **Sponsored**_ Collaborative screen sharing with simultaneous remote control — open source, like Screenhero. ## [Proms: Ravel and Stravinsky](https://stephenjones.blog/2025/08/16/proms-ravel-stravinsky/) _2025-08-16 · StephenJones.blog · Stephen Jones: a blog_ Ida Rubenstein leading the original 1928 production of Boléro. Source. Ravel’s Boléro and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring have become concert “classics”, but they are challenging in very different ways. It was exhilarating to hear both in the same Prom the other day. For The Rite, I refer you to various posts, starting with my own \[…\] ## [Tico tico](https://stephenjones.blog/2025/08/01/tico-tico/) _2025-08-01 · StephenJones.blog · Stephen Jones: a blog_ Earworms can be most insistent. For some reason my current one is Tico tico no fubá, composed in 1917 by Zequinha de Abreu. I first got to know it via the Nimbus CD Choros from Brazil by Os Ingênuos, but recently I’ve been listening to a variety of performances. There’s much to admire in the \[…\] ## [Red ritual](https://stephenjones.blog/2025/07/27/red-ritual/) _2025-07-27 · StephenJones.blog · Stephen Jones: a blog_ Before my diachronic ethnography of Gaoluo village was published, I surveyed the modern fortunes of amateur village ritual associations on the Hebei plain south of Beijing in “Ritual music under Mao and Deng”, British journal of ethnomusicology 8 (1999). The same journal soon elaborated on the theme of ritual under Communism in a useful special issue \[…\] ## [Identifying deformed sea ice using geomorphons](https://www.spatialised.net/identifying-deformed-sea-ice-using-geomorphons/) _2025-05-26 · Adam · Spatialised_ I’ve been working around sea ice for close to two decades on and off – and have had the privilege of being up close and personal with floating chunks of frozen ocean in both the Arctic and Antarctic. An enduring geophysical question about sea ice is “how much ice floats on the ocean?” Sea ice,… Read More » Identifying deformed sea ice using geomorphons ## [Shumla Intern Blog: Memphis Mallory](https://shumla.org/shumla-intern-blog-memphis-mallory/) _2025-04-29 · Jessica Lee · Shumla_ Memphis Mallory interned at Shumla in Spring 2025, working on curating and digitizing legacy archives that support Shumla’s preservation mission. The post Shumla Intern Blog: Memphis Mallory appeared first on Shumla . ## [Counting trees in sparse woodland with OpenDroneMap, PDAL and QGIS](https://www.spatialised.net/counting-trees-in-sparse-woodland-with-opendronemap-pdal-and-qgis/) _2025-04-24 · Adam · Spatialised_ This demonstrates a method for counting trees using a backpackable mini drone, and a completely open source workflow. If you like it / find value in it, feel free to press the donate buttons at the bottom of this page – or get in touch for larger, longer term projects. What is the rationale for… Read More » Counting trees in sparse woodland with OpenDroneMap, PDAL and QGIS ## [A Christmas Blogpost](https://charlesmartinshields.com/2024/12/25/a-christmas-blogpost/) _2024-12-24 · Charles Martin-Shields · Charles P. Martin-Shields_ Because I work in politics and humanitarianism, I have some particular views on the Christmas story. To be frank, I think the way that we celebrate Christmas, and the associated imagery, betrays the theology of the entire enterprise. The only Christmas service I ve been to that felt hermenuetically true to the story culminated with the Continue reading A Christmas Blogpost ## [The Spatialised store is back](https://www.spatialised.net/the-spatialised-store-is-back/) _2024-11-02 · Adam · Spatialised_ A quick update – the Spatialised online store is back! This time refocused on cartographic things, starting with some halftone design work featuring some of my favourite mountains. Places you might not always see on a print. As always, buy responsibly! Quick links to all the products in store are given below. I’m also open… Read More » The Spatialised store is back