A Year of Weather

In wake of Typhoons Yagi and Krathon, Storm Boris, and Hurricanes Helene and Milton; while feeling, still, the consequences of anomalous heat stress this Summer, open-weather will share their work making tools and infrastructures bound up in our observations and sensing of weather. In open-weather, tools and infrastructures are understood as both technical and social. While weather and climate are always more-than-meteorological.
This talk coincides with the launch of a Year of Weather: a collective, trans*local experiment in reading the weather to honour and deepen climate literacies.

open-weather is a feminist experiment in imaging and imagining the earth and its weather systems using DIY community tools. Co-led by researcher-designer Sophie Dyer and creative geographer Sasha Engelmann, open-weather encompasses a series of how-to guides, critical frameworks and public workshops on the reception of satellite images using free or inexpensive amateur radio technologies. In the tradition of intersectional feminism, open-weather investigates the politics of location and interlocking oppressions that shape our capacities to observe, negotiate, and respond to the climate crisis. In doing so, open-weather challenges dominant representations of earth and environment while complicating ideas of the weather beyond the meteorological.

The lecture takes place on the occasion of the finissage of the current exhibition Fragments of a Breathing City by Breathe Earth Collective