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

BORING REVOLUTIONS

This section will aim to explore how maintenance is an activity essential to how we live with each other. If communities – and whole countries – really are fragmented, is maintenance and ‘boring revolutions’ part of the answer?

Why Innovation Needs a Boring Revolution

Architect

Why Data Is Hard, But So Important, To Maintain

Head of Data at The Open Data Institute, Leeds

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY AND ANXIOUS MAINTENANCE

We hear a lot about emerging technologies – self-driving cars, smart cities and assistive technology for an ageing population. Yet the hope for many of these technologies belies the widespread decline of wider systems – reliable public transport, or a social care safety net. Do these technologies maintain new or old systems? Are they really that disruptive?

Emerging Technologies, Governance and Ethics

Associate Professor, Science and Technology Studies, UCL

Is Connected Predictive Maintenance Really Achievable?

Professor of Advanced Maintenance, University of Sunderland

AFTER LUNCHTIME TALK

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

CEO, Open Data Institute

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

Potholes and the huge cost to UK road network maintenance

Senior Lecturer, Civil Engineering, Brunel University

Visible Clothes Repair and Fragile Textile Skill Supply

Tom of Holland, Artist and Activist

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

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