OPENING SHORT TALKS

Two short talks to welcome our audience and highlight the surprising facets of maintenance.

Keeping Things Dead

Herbarium Curator, Liverpool World Museum

Community IoT Sensor Networks as a Self-Made Burden

Network Architect and Sensor Herder, Love Hz

Maintenance and Alternative Economic Models

Architect

FRAGILITY

We know that we need to maintain fragile things. But what about things that people don’t realise are fragile – from roads to CD-ROMS – and therefore don’t care for them properly?

How Heritage Organisations Understand ‘Digital’ Material – and Therefore How They Are Maintained

Digital Curator, British Library

The High Hidden Costs of Potholes

Senior Lecturer, Civil Engineering, Brunel University

Visible Clothes Repair and Fragile Textile Skill Supply

Tom of Holland, Artist and Activist

Bins, Buses and Housing: The systems that make them work

Head of Data at The Open Data Institute, Leeds

AFTER LUNCHTIME TALK

Open Data 101: How to Create and Maintain Data in Collaborative Ways

CEO, Open Data Institute

MAINTENANCE IN A CLIMATE CRISIS

We are already experiencing climate crisis. The uncertainty around environmental factors means that in the future, our built environment will require a far higher value placed on maintenance than at present. Whilst maintenance falls outside many current economic models, what happens when we have no longer have the luxury to ignore it?

Decoupling and the Maintenance Mindset

Professor, The New School, NYC

Reducing Carbon in the Digital Realm – a Life Cycle View

Organiser of ClimateAction.tech and Director of the Green Web Foundation

CITIES AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Without continuous care and maintenance, urban systems – everything from transport, networked utilities, housing and green spaces – are prone to breakdown. Maintaining cities is a major task for technical experts and communities alike, and the priority given to this work reflects wider societal challenges.

Social Housing Maintenance and the Ethics of Care

Reader in Architecture and Urbanism, Cardiff University

Building Bridges

Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University