NOTES

In 2025 we re-designed our air pollution sensor system SmogOff, and sent it out for testing with three community groups. These are our notes from the process.

I've been playing with a weaving pattern over the last few months, it's based on one of the oldest pieces of fabric found, in Hallstatt in Austria.

Final write up on this years organised atoms activities, and hints at new things to come.

Testing a version of the tablet weave demonstrator, as described by Peter Collingwood in The Techniques of Tablet Weaving.

A report on our public installation as part of Alpaca Festival 2025.

A report on our two day long "Fun Palace" at United Downs Raceway, historic site of the amazingly named "Ale and Cakes" Mine.

A quick write up of the first Organised Atoms workshop of 2025. We have another two (open for participants!) in October, all funded by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

We're happy to announce dates for Organised Atoms 2025 - workshops for kids and their families and friends where we search for crystals, examine them under a microscope and make electronic noises with them!

On-line conference with watch parties in Sheffield, Berlin and Barcelona

We'll be opening our studio to welcome you to our new location, and also to launch Drawings About Things - all invited!

We are very happy to report that we have been funded by the Royal Society of Chemistry for a third year of Organised Atoms workshops!

All about our recent updates to the project after over ten years use in Uganda, where it's been used for recording mongoose mating, fights, births, deaths and details like mongooses defecting from one pack to another.

Our freshly spruced up SmogOff air pollution sensors have been shipped out to community groups around the UK for gathering data for environmental advocacy projects.

An exhibition of prints about the evidence for how we can communicate better about climate and environmental issues.

We've been awarded funding to do more development on our SmogOff air pollution sensors, and send them out to three community groups around the country to use for answering their own local questions.

Potter around a strange world, meet other Nergals, talk to plants and clouds... and behind the scenes, generate important data for public health research.

Overview of our second workshop with iSightCornwall to figure out how to make a citizen science game that's accessible for people with little or no sight - this time we were testing what we've made so far.

What I've been up to on a part time MA in authorial illustration, and how it might feed into our studio work to expand what we can do.

I had the pleasure of visiting the Wearable Senses Lab at TUe Eindhoven for a two-week residency, exploring weaving and knitting structures, coding in knots, textile motifs as symbols, rhythm, movement, liveness, and the internet of patterns.

Wrapping up the latest work on the Organised Atoms project, here are some curve traces of natural semiconductors found in the wild amongst the tailings dumps of some of the many thousands of abandoned mines in Cornwall.