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This paper explores the accessibility of the London Underground network. To do so, we visualize and analyse TfL Oyster Card and Disabled Freedom Pass Oyster card data. We compare census data of people with ... more

This paper explores the accessibility of the London Underground network. To do so, we visualize and analyse TfL Oyster Card and Disabled Freedom Pass Oyster card data. We compare census data of people with limited mobility with accessible station usage. We explore travel patterns and network load during a typical week. We propose a new Android app that directs people with limited mobility to accessible stations nearby, to encourage their use. We explore different kinds of visualisation techniques with video and 3d animation. The visualisation approach to the analysis of these data proved very helpful in the attempt to understand the measure upon which public transport in
London is used by people with limited mobility. The use of smart ticketing and data recording of the trips provided by TfL enable a thorough research of urban movement patterns, and allow various interpretations of the city. If rhetorics towards a smart city are in place
today, proclaiming more and more the need of smart
technologies, sensors and a vision of a hybrid, cyberphysical environment, the analysis of the data that this
future urban state produces should be treated carefully. If used in the correct way, they will be able to reveal
problems of the modern society that had remained in the dark, helping towards a vision of the desired urban well-being for all. This paper can also serve as a portfolio of different takes on spatial data visualisation.

In this collective article, we argue for a wider recognition of Lily Greenham’s sound poetry, underscoring her artistic uses of multilingualism and transnational collaboration. The form of the article is conceptual: in order to signal the... more

In this collective article, we argue for a wider recognition of Lily Greenham’s sound poetry, underscoring her artistic uses of multilingualism and transnational collaboration. The form of the article is conceptual: in order to signal the importance given to poetry as a collaborative and transnational activity in Greenham’s oeuvre, we have chosen to write the article in six languages and as a collaboration between six scholars with different backgrounds. The form of the article moreover refects the privilege given to language as material, structure, and activity in Greenham’s works. The purpose of our article is thus twofold: while we seek to initiate an academic reception of Greenham’s works and to highlight these as important contributions to the traditionally male-dominated historiography of sound poetry, we also seek to examine how academic writing can alter its conventional forms in order to address works that are not ideally suited for hermeneutic or exegetic acts of reading.