Tim Waterman

Writer & speaker. Landscape, food, utopias, queer theory, imagination. Prof of Landscape Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Antifascist. Recent books: The Landscape of Utopia, Landscape Citizenships. At work on 'Reworlding: Planetarity & Future Imaginaries'.

Website: http://www.tim-waterman.co.uk/
Work: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/people/tim-waterman
Landscape Research Group: https://landscaperesearch.org/

Last Notes

2026-07-18 09:59:56 CEST

Fascinating! A "multilingual, open-access online database of oceanic fictions from across the world" which invites "scholars and researchers to contribute new texts and expand this global waterscape." https://oceanicfiction.com

2026-07-07 08:47:55 CEST

In the war room at the White House at 3am a cloud of wild strawberry vape smoke hangs heavy over furrowed brows and blank stares as urgent questions are addressed. How do we gain vengeance? Shall we kidnap the President of Belgium? Or do we simply bomb its capital, Luxembourg?
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2026-06-21 10:56:46 CEST

New statement from the genocide prevention charity the Lemkin Institute "Othering a group of people and separating them from the rest of society is inherently disrespectful to that group’s human dignity. It is also a common genocidal tactic." https://www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-new-page/statement-on-the-anti-trans-and-anti-intersex-ehrc-code-of-practice-in-the-united-kingdom

2026-05-24 11:14:47 CEST

There should be massive investment in university education for all the fields working with climate and landscape change. This includes landscape architecture, ecology, planning, civil engineering and more. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/23/uk-homes-roads-railways-sink-into-the-sea

2026-04-25 09:07:15 CEST

Technology was supposed to give us all lives of luxury, ease, and time for creativity and learning. What have we got instead? Poverty, evil billionaires, government capture, poor management, and the collapse of cultural life. https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/university-nottingham-set-cut-600-10933176

2026-02-13 09:32:08 CET

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It's more "Meet the Feebles" than it is the Muppets, really.

2026-02-06 11:03:48 CET

I have just sent in a complaint about being asked to install Microsoft security on my computer: "I am alarmed to have been asked to install Microsoft security products on my computer. In a time in which Microsoft is providing precisely the opposite of security--"

2025-08-12 12:11:38 CEST

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It's so utterly infuriating when ordinary citizens are treated as suspects when the real criminals are in the halls of power and we already know who they are.

2025-08-12 12:00:10 CEST

Hey Londoners: stay off Oxford Street today or prepare to cover your face. There is live facial recognition on the street today. #SurveillanceState

2025-07-23 16:34:44 CEST

Hey Mastodon, please let me know of any web resources for public domain/open access/copyleft (non-AI) images for art, architecture, and landscape (artworks, cartography, plans, drawings). I want to make a list for students, but I'll share it with everyone! Please repost!

2025-06-21 20:18:58 CEST

All You Fascists Bound to Lose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwcKwGS7OSQ&ab_channel=UnAmericanBandstand

2025-06-21 12:11:26 CEST

"Every pound spent subsidising tree burning is a pound not invested in technologies that could actually deliver net zero. While other countries race ahead with wind, solar and battery storage, we’re burning money on the most primitive fuel known to humanity." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/21/uk-trees-burned-green-drax-power-station

2024-11-05 10:53:15 CET

I am in the US for a family emergency. I regret to say I have turned on the TV and US media is no longer a product of or for any human intelligence. Also there are no international stations available, and no international news to speak of.

2024-10-28 15:51:04 CET

"Oxfam’s research found that the world’s fifty richest billionaires produce on average more carbon emissions in under three hours than the average British person does in their entire lifetime." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/28/carbon-emissions-of-richest-1-increase-hunger-poverty-and-deaths-says-oxfam

2024-10-16 13:07:29 CEST

Today, I must admit, I am struggling to bear up under the weight of knowing that just about every institution at every level is operating under an ideology which utterly fails to see and value how the world actually works, and thus are incapable of ensuring human goodness or human survival.

2024-09-22 10:50:32 CEST

For World Car-Free Day, here is one of the best essays ever written about the folly of the personal motorcar. André Gorz, "The Social Ideology of the Motorcar". The car "would oblige the owner to consume and use a host of commercial services and industrial products that could only be provided by some third party. The apparent independence of the automobile owner was only concealing the actual radical dependency." https://libcom.org/article/social-ideology-motorcar-andre-gorz

2024-09-01 10:50:54 CEST

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I don't think he glosses over the fact that we have passed tipping points. The important thing is he is getting across the point that we must act quickly and decisively and not give in to doom. It's a message very well pitched to a very general White, Western 'we'.

2024-09-01 08:40:08 CEST

I haven't posted a TED talk in years, but this one is utterly necessary. A dire warning, and a small chance of hope. "The Tipping Points of Climate Change--and Where We Stand" by the incredible Johan Rockström https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl6VhCAeEfQ&ab_channel=TED