Sophie ‘Soph’ Dyer is a designer, educator, and sometime writer based in London.

Their work uses participation and investigative design to explore anticolonial and feminist approaches to weather, climate, and broader social justice issues. For the last five years, Soph co-led open-weather. To access the 2.5K satellite images archived by the collective, see its Public Archive.

They are open to new commissions and collaborations. Make contact.

2025
Teaching & Learning: Interview
Counter-Mapping: A Research Method in Art and Design. Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Online
kabk.nl
14 April–10 May 2026
Projects: Solo exhibtion
Another Space Agency is Possible ASAP. Echo Correspondence and Klima Biennale Wien, Kleingartenverein Brunnstube, Vienna, Austria
biennale.wien

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Projects

Another Space Agency is Possible ASAP
For one month during Vienna's Climate Biennale, Another Space Agency is Possible ASAP transformed the former Press-Haus of Kleingartenverein Brunnstube into a communal ground station receiving live transmissions from weather satellites and hosting discussions on weather, space, and collective practices for living with, and responding to, the climate crisis.
14 April–10 May 2026. Solo exhibtion. Echo Correspondence and Klima Biennale Wien, Kleingartenverein Brunnstube, Vienna, Austria. biennale.wien
External Advisor to Forensic Architecture
External Advisor to Forensic Architecture on digital participation in research. After the start of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza in October 2023 my contribution pivoted to focus on assisting with information design of the report 'Report: A Spatial Analysis of the Israeli Military’s Conduct in Gaza since October 2023' and the first version of the interactive cartographic platform: 'A Cartography of Genocide'.
23 October 2023–23 April 2025. Archive, Map. Forensic Architecture, Goldsmiths, London. forensic-architecture.org
2023 Open-weather Showreel
Our first video documenting where we are as a collective, from antennas to sci-fi, workshops to writing, and how-to guides to planetary 'nowcasts'.
2023. Video or film. Unsolicited, online. vimeo.com
Inside the NYPD’s Surveillance Machine
Project co-lead for the multi-award nominated investigation and web app, Inside the NYPD’s Surveillance Machine. When Amnesty International asked the NYPD to publish data on its use of facial recognition technology, it refused. With the help of more than 7K digital volunteers, we used Google Street View's API to map the surveillance cameras that feed the software. The resulting web app is a collaboration with the Dutch design studio, Superposition.
1 January 2021–1 June 2022. Archive, Map. Amnesty International, online. banthescan.amnesty.org
Open-weather takes part in ‘Make me a signal’
Audio contribution. Recorded in one take off the West coast of Scotland. Listen to the tick-tock of a weather satellite intermingled with bird calls, and chatter of water and radio waves.
12 September 2021. Sound work. Adriana Knouf, ShuLea Cheang, and Franz Xaver, STWST48x7, online and at Stadwerkstatt, Linz . p-node.org
Impossible Weather Station
An open-weather installation produced in collaboration with Sasha Engelmann on the occasion of the im/possible images exhibition.
7 July 2021. Group exhibition, Installation. Munich. lothringer13.com
Documenting Police Violence Against Protestors for Black Lives
Amnesty International documented, analysed and mapped 125 separate examples of police violence against protesters in 40 states and the District of Columbia between 26 May and 5 June 2020.
2020. Map. Amnesty International, Online. amnesty.org
DIY Satellite Ground Station
Guide for the reception of NOAA satellite images using affordable hardware and free software. Co-written with Sasha Engelmann.
26 June 2020. Educational resource, Workshop. Unsolicited, Public Lab. publiclab.org
Feminist Open Source Investigations Group (femOS)
An informal and anonymous alliance of women and queer tech and human rights workers formed around the the urgent question: What would a feminist open source investigation look like? Over two years the group functioned as a space for peer-to-peer care, sharing questions and resources.
1 November 2019–1 November 2022. Unsolicited, Glasgow, London, Berlin and New York. feministopensource.group
Solidarity
Titles design for Solidarity, an award-winning documentary film about the struggle for justice in the wake of public revelations about the secretive methods used by corporations and the police against UK activists and trade unionists.
2019. Video or film. Lucy Parker and City Projects, London.
Artefact
Group exhibition curated by Migrant Journal. Installation produced in collaboration with Eline Benjaminsen, Sasha Engelmann and oneacre.online.
1 February 2019. Group exhibition. Migrant Journal, STUK, Leuven.
Conflicting Truths
Time based installation drawing on Airwars' public archive of civilian casualty allegations against the US-led Coalition from war against the so-called Islamic State.
1 April 2019. Group exhibition, Installation. Feedback #4: Marshall McLuhan and the Arts, College For Creative Studies, Detroit.
Dedications
Group exhibition.
14 February 2017. Group exhibition. Art Review Bar, London.
Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture
Graphic design for the 'Hannibal in Rafah' investigation focused on a four-day attack on Gaza by the Israeli military in 2014. The 'Hannibal' directive resulted in the heaviest civilian death toll of the conflict. In collaboration with Solveig Suess.
2015. Installation. Forensic Architecture, Shenzhen Public Art Center, Shenzhen, China. forensic-architecture.org
Jangala
Graphic identity for Jangala, a Wi-Fi kit designed for use in camps and by at sea rescue vessels.
1 December 2016. Jangala, London. janga.la
Agency of Living Organisms
Online counterpart to the exhibition, Agency of Living Organisms, exploring the dark ecologies that animate the Earth's hydrosphere, atmosphere, lithosphere and biosphere. Digital guide and map in collaboration with Solveig Suess. Code by Internet Friends Forever..
1 October 2016. Archive, Map. Pauline Doutreluingne, Tabakalera, Donotstia.
Constellation.s
Graphic design with Solveig Suess.
2016. Print. Forensic Architecture, Arc en Rêve Centre d’Architecture, Bordeaux, France. forensic-architecture.org
The Miraculous
Text-and-architecture experiment with Maeve Redmond and the American writer and critic, Raphael Rubinstein.
4 June 2016. Group exhibition, Installation. Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh.
A Public Hearing
Group residency facilitated by the Centre for Research Architecture.
2 June 2016. Group exhibition, Installation. Arts Catalyst, London.
A World of Fragile Parts
Graphic design with Solveig Suess.
2016. Print. Forensic Architecture in collaboration with the V&A Museum, Applied Arts Pavillon, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
Nothing For Sale Here
Series of nine posters and poems that occupied commercial advertising spaces in Glasgow, inspired by the tiled, ad-free walls of Berlin's U-Bahn Stations. Poetry by Anthony Autumn (Luke Shaw), designer with Maeve Redmond.
2 July 2015. Installation. Merchant City Festival, Glasgow.
Tomorrow Is Always Too Long
Design and research for the visual artist, Phil Collins.
7 December 2014. Print. The Common Guild, Queen's Park, Glasgow. thecommonguild.org.uk
Glasgow Women’s Library
Design work over a two years for Glasgow Women's Library.
1 May 2012–1 May 2014. Print. Glasgow Women's Library, Glasgow.
Barrie Girls
An exhibition of screen printed posters, archival materials, and the text, C’est Ci N’est Pas Une Foto. Created by designers Sophie Dyer and Maeve Redmond in collaboration with artist Fiona Jardine. Commissioned and curated by Panel.
28 July 2013. Group exhibition, Installation, Print, Speculative fiction. Panel, Off Site, Glasgow.

Teaching & Learning

Internal Talk and Discussion for Organismo
Online session with the members of the Last Resort applied-research group in the 'Organismo: Art in Applied Critical Ecologies' programme.
10 June 2026. Talk. TBA21–Academy, Online. tba21.org
MA Narrative Environments Talk
Talk for students of the MA Narrative Environments course.
26 May 2026. Talk. Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, Online. narrative-environments.com
Sun printing for all ages
Plant and sun printing as part of the public programme for Another Space Agency is Possible ASAP.
2 May 2026. Workshop. Echo Correspondence and Klima Biennale Wien, Austria.
De- and Re-constructing the ‘Perfect’ Cyclone
Two-day workshop.
4 March 2026. Workshop. Non-Linear Narratives Masters, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK), The Netherlands .
Tempers and Temperatures
Keynote for the design symposium 'Tempers and Temperatures: The Rising Heat of Digital Ecologies' under the session theme: design, labour and collective futures.
3 March 2026. Talk, Workshop. Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership 'Climate Truth Crisis', Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK), The Netherlands. kabk.nl
Senior Artist, Design Investigations
Guest tutor for the semester.
1 February–1 September 2025. Die Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien (University of Applied Arts Vienna), Austria. dieangewandte.at
Planetary Experiments: Environments by Design
Talk and panel.
13 June 2025. Talk. Annual Conference of the German Society for Design Theory and Research (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Designtheorie und -forschung, DGTF), TU Dresden, Germany. planetary-experiments.dgtf.de
Co-map, Re-map, Un-map: Collective, Exploratory, and Radical Cartographies
Talk and panel on behalf of open-weather.
14–16 April 2025. Talk. Beirut Urban Lab, American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon. beiruturbanlab.com
Counter-Mapping: A Research Method in Art and Design
Interview with writer Alice Twemlow (and designer-educator Niels Schrader) for the Design Lectorate’s research methods series.
2025. Interview. Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Online. kabk.nl
A Year of Weather Work-in-Progress Talk
In wake of Storm Boris, Typhoons Yagi and Krathon, and Hurricanes Helene and Milton; while feeling, still, the consequences of anomalous heat stress this Summer, Sophie Dyer from 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.
15 November 2024. Talk. Magazin, Austria. architektur-im-magazin.at
Studio Lead, Information Design
Leading the postgraduate design studio, Critical Cartographies, in the Information Design MA. Thematic foci: Cartographies of Return (2026); Plotting Protest (2024–25); Earth Station Eindhoven (2023–2024).
1 September 2023. Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands. designacademy.nl
Claiming*Spaces Summer School: Whose Climate?
Workshops and public conversation as open-weather, in conversation and collaboration with Marlene Wagner.
24 July 2023. Workshop. Claiming*Spaces, Schloss Drosendorf, Austria. claimingspaces.org
Talk for Atmosférica: Semana de la Escucha 2023
Pre-recorded talk subtitled in Spanish with a live Q&A.
27 July 2023. Talk, Video or film. Tsonami Arte Sonoro, Chile and online. youtube.com
Open-weather presents at The Ediths Roundtable
The Ediths 2023 Responsive Roundtable Series.
18 July 2023. Talk. The Ediths, Australia and online. theediths.org
Open-weather talk at Rhode Island School of Design
9 May 2023. Talk. Nature Culture Sustainability Studies, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), online. instagram.com
Open-weather workshop at Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths
Day-long workshop and discussion with students and staff.
13 March 2023. Workshop. Goldsmiths, London. research-architecture.org
External examiner for the Non-Linear Narratives Masters
1 September 2021–1 June 2022. Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, The Hague. kabk.nl
Two-day open-weather Workshop at Onassis Stegi
Two-day workshop co-run with Sasha Engelmann on the occasion of the exhibition, Weather Engines.
7 May 2022. Workshop. Onassis Stegi, Athens. onassis.org
Book Launch for (W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art
Presentation and panel discussion.
25 February 2021. Talk. Mosaic Rooms, London. mosaicrooms.org
An Introduction to Feminist Open Source Research
Visiting lecturer to the MA Global Futures module, Advanced Methods.
11 February 2021. Talk. Royal Holloway University, London. royalholloway.ac.uk
Sensing Environments with Care: Feminist Practices and Technologies of Embodiment
Workshop and panel with Sasha Engelmann.
18 September 2020. Talk, Workshop. Akademie Schloss Solitude, Kunstverein Wagenhalle, Stuttgart. akademie-solitude.de
HRCD Call on Trauma and Design in Human Rights Work
Human Rights Centered Design community call.
16 September 2020. Talk. online. hrcd.pubpub.org
Building Networks for Nowcasting the Weather
Virtual talk with Sasha Engelmann.
12 September 2020. Talk. Our Networks, Toronto and cyberspace. ournetworks.ca
Using Data Ethically in Humanitarian, Human Rights, and Open Source Investigations
Panel discussion hosted by The Engine Room.
29 July 2020. Talk. RightsCon, online. rightscon.summit.tc
Journal of Digital War, Editorial Board
Editorial board board member.
2020. Journal of Digital War, Virtual. digital-war.org
Satellite Séance × ADS7 Studio
Collective sensing of the NOAA-19 weather satellite performed with students from the ADS7 Architecture Studio. In collaboration with Sasha Engelmann.
21 January 2020. Workshop. Royal College of Art, Hyde Park, London.
Centre for Research Architecture Live Project 2019
Visiting lecturer for the five-week project working with Amnesty International and Airwars data. Focus on quantitative methods, ethics and secondary trauma in open source investigations.
1 October–13 November 2019. Workshop. Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, London.
When Is Data Collection Activism?
The public and collective documentation of deaths that have been systematically denied, racialised, gendered, individualised or otherwise suppressed has long been a form of "non-violent protest". What does this kind of activism look like today? What are the questions it raises in our data-saturated world?.
2 October 2019. Talk. Non Linear Narrative, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Netherlands.
Seeing Through the Rubble: Using Crowdsourced Data and Fieldwork to Investigate Civilian Deaths in Raqqa
Panel discussion hosted by Amnesty International.
12 June 2019. Talk. RightsCon, Tunis. rightscon2019.sched.com
Airwars: Counting the Uncounted
Lecture on the possibilities of combining open, crowd and field research to trace undocumented deaths.
2 May 2019. Talk. Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam. thursdaynight.hetnieuweinstituut.nl
BBC NewsHack
Lightening talk with Hanna Rullman.
22 May 2019. Talk. BBC NewsHack, London. bbc.co.uk
Remotely Sensing Conflict
Talk for Research Architecture and Forensic Architecture MA studios.
4 April 2019. Talk. Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, London.
DEFRAG: Open Source Intelligence
Panel on open source intelligence.
1 April 2019. Talk. Somerset House, London. somersethouse.org.uk
Feeling/Following Materials as Method
Talk on research methods for Research Architecture MA studio.
18 March 2019. Talk. Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, London.
Atmospheres: Sounding Radio
Teaching assistant, second year running for the BA Geography workshop on radio, taught by Sasha Engelmann.
15 February 2019. Geography Department, Royal Holloway, University of London, London.
Radio Earth Hold
Talk as part of a day of conversation and collective listening around sonic solidarity with Ultra-red, Daisy Hildyard, Sulaïman Majali, Dhanveer Singh Brar and Louis Moreno.
28 October 2018. Talk. Radio Earth Hold, Serpentine Galleries. serpentinegalleries.org
Concrete Flux × Belligerent Eyes
Participation in the three month-long experimental film summer school.
25 May–25 September 2016. Workshop. Fondazione Prada, Ca' Corner della Regina, Venice.
Radio Techno Fossil × Free Seminar
Radio workshop co-organised with Sasha Engelmann.
9 July 2018. Workshop. Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, London.
Concrete Flux × Tabakalera International Residency Programme
Two months research residency with Solveig Suess.
15 October 2017–25 December 2018. Tabakalera, Donostia.
Free Seminar
Co-founder and participant of the student-led seminar open to all, hosted by the Centre for Research Architecture. Free education in every sense: liberated, critical and decolonised.
1 October 2015–1 October 2017. Workshop. Unsolicited, Goldsmiths, London.
The Oracle and the Algorithm
Guest workshop for the Curating, Managing and Mediating Art masters programme.
1 March 2017. Archive, Workshop. Aalto University, Pori.
Inside Out School
Co-organiser of a two day workshop on radical pedagogy in art and design: its histories, spatial strategies and what it asks of us.
2 December 2014. Workshop. A Feral Studio, Communication Design BA, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow.
Parallel School Glasgow
Organiser of the free school on the occasion of the exhibition, It’s Not Very Nice That: Politics in Contemporary Graphic Design exhibition at The Lighthouse.
14 April 2014. Workshop. Unsolicited, The Glasgow School of Art and The Lighthouse, Glasgow. parallel-school.org
Parallel School Berlin
Participant in the free school organised around the principle of "each one, each one".
30 September 2013. Workshop. Unsolicited, Universität der Künste, Berlin. parallel-school.org
No Translation Needed
Guest workshop and lecture for the Singapore Immersion Programme.
1 May 2013. Workshop. The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow.

Writing

Reading Weather to Honour and Deepen Climate Literacies (En español)
We began this essay with the phrase fire weather, however it does not yet exist in Soph’s mother tongue, British English. The first time Soph recalls searching for such a combination of words was in summer 2022, when London, their then home, exceeded 40 degrees Celsius (105 degrees Fahrenheit) for consecutive days. East of London, a garden compost heap likely spontaneously combusted, sparking the Wennington Wildfire that burned 17 suburban homes, a car repair workshop, numerous cars and blackened agricultural fields. In contrast, though she didn’t have a name for it, Sasha has long known fire weather in the chaparral landscape of Southern California. One of her earliest memories is of walking to preschool while a plume of smoke darkened half the sky.
2025. Essay. Tsonami Arte Sonoro, Aural Magazine, Issue 6: Atmósferica.
Verticality and Vision
Book chapter lead-authored by Sasha Engelmann. Book edited by Gary Bratchford and Dennis Zuev.
2024. Book chapter. Palgrave Macmillan Cham, London. link.springer.com
New York: ceci est une caméra de surveillance
Interview for the Amnesty International France podcast.
30 June 2023. Interview. Amnesty International, Online. shows.acast.com
Neural Magazine: Strange Weather
Interview together with Sasha Engelmann as open-weather for the 'Strange Weather' issue edited by Daphne Dragona and Jussi Parikka.
1 March 2023. Interview, Transcript. Neural, in print. neural.it
Civil Society and Innovation Podcast: Digital Volunteers Disrupt Asymmetrical Power Dynamics
Interview for the International Civil Society Centre's 2022 report and podcast, 'Civil Society Innovation and Digital Power Shift'.
1 October 2022. Interview, Transcript. Amnesty International with the International Civil Society Centre, Online. open.spotify.com
Speculative-feminist Propositions for Planetary Images in an Era of Climate Crisis
Academic paper. Lead authored by Sasha Engelmann. Co-authored in practice and code by Sophie Dyer, Lizzie Malcolm and Daniel Powers.
29 September 2022. Academic article. Geoforum, Online. sciencedirect.com
When I Image the Earth, I Imagine Another
Short story in the genre of speculative feminist fiction. Co-authored with Sasha Engelmann and illustrated by Golrokh Nafisi.
2022. Speculative fiction. Sonic Acts, Amsterdam. shop.sonicacts.com
How to Capture Satellite Images in Your Backyard – and Contribute to a Snapshot of the Climate Crisis
Open-weather article inviting people to set-up up DIY satellite ground stations to capture a collective snapshot of the climate crisis.
23 February 2022. Essay. The Conversation, online. theconversation.com
Access and Inclusion: Why and How We Translate
Blog post for the Crisis Evidence Lab on translation in human rights research.
1 October 2021. Blog post. Amnesty International, online. citizenevidence.org
How We Enrolled More than Seven Thousand Volunteers to Generate Data the NYPD Wouldn’t Publish
Blog post documenting the research and rationale behind the investigation 'Decode Surveillance NYC'.
13 September 2021. Blog post. Amnesty International, online. citizenevidence.org
What We’ve Learned from Keeping this Blog …and Why We’ll Keep Posting
Reflective, summer blog post for the Crisis Evidence Lab.
25 August 2021. Blog post. Amnesty International, remote. citizenevidence.org
Citizen Evidence Online Video Wrangler
How-to guide and bash scripts to batch download, resize and generate thumbnails from videos posted to social media.
25 March 2021. Educational resource, Tool. Amnesty International, remote. citizenevidence.org
Open-weather Feminist Handbook
Digital handbook and living document recording the values, positions, and proposition that have emerged during the development of open-weather.
3 December 2020. Booklet or zine. Almanac, online. almanacprojects.com
In Dozens of Countries, Governments Rely on Internet Shutdowns to Hide Repression
Article co-authored with Anita Gohdes and Likhita Banerji, following the investigation, A web of impunity: The killings Iran's internet shutdown hid.
4 December 2020. Blog post. Amnesty International, online. washingtonpost.com
10 Questions We’re Asking About Ethics, Data, and Open Source Research
Blog post co-written with Laura Guzman for Amnesty and The Engine Room.
10 November 2020. Blog post. Amnesty International and The Engine Room, online. theengineroom.org
What Would a Feminist Open Source Investigation Look Like?
What would an explicitly feminist open source investigation look like? This is not a thought experiment nor an exercise to identify what is feminist and what is not. Rather, it is an action plan by a group of human rights and tech workers seeking to conduct open source investigations differently. Our aim is to apply feminist thought to open source investigations so as to question and to reimagine what, in the last five years, have become dominant and default ways of working.
1 April 2020. Academic article. Journal of Digital War. link.springer.com
A Probable Female, A Probable Child
Book chapter for (W)archives Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art. The international war against the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is one of the first in history to be extensively documented en masse by civilians, militants and state militaries alike, all uploading content to the Internet in near real time. The result is a "polyperspectival" and highly distributed, digital record of the conflict. Working with Airwars public archive, the text moves through reports of civilian harm to map their archival relations, which are also the relations between sensed and sensing bodies – from cold fleshy bodies, to “probable” pixelated bodies and “hot data subjects”. Eds. Daniela Agostinho, Solveig Gade, Nanna Thylstrup and Kristin Veel.
1 June 2020. Book chapter. Sternberg Press, Berlin. sternberg-press.com
Radio Techno Fossil
Text commissioned for the radio broadcast produced in collaboration with Eline Benjaminsen, Sasha Engelmann, and oneacre.online.
6 July 2018. Transcript. oneacre.online, Witte de With, Den Haag and Rotterdam.
Experimental Practices in the Electromagnetic Spectrum: Towards a Material Politics of Radio
Masters dissertation. Multi-scalar and stellar stories from a material politics of radio in the Anthropocene.
1 September 2017. Essay. Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, London.
Lore of the Radio Fossil
Script co-written with Sasha Engelmann. We follow a satellite image as it traverses the bounds of Earth’s surfaces, elements, atmospheres, and technogeographies.
1 September 2017. Sound work, Speculative fiction. Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, London.
Calais, Capital, and an Electromagnetic Commons
The electromagnetic spectrum is an example of a 'resource' held in common that is governed in different ways, to very different effect. Calais' electromagnetic milieu tells of the extreme environments of financial capitalism and the people, resources and infrastructures that weather them.
1 September 2017. Essay, Map. Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, London.
Think Twice Before You Think
Zine. A publication and conversation between participants and co-organisers of Parallel School, Utopia School, Free Cooper Union and Relearn. Written, edited and designed with Toni Brell.
1 November 2015. Booklet or zine. A Feral Studio, Berlin.

About

I am a designer, researcher, and educator based in London. The projects and ways of working I develop are attempts to prefigure more just and collaborative worlds.

I use participation and investigatory design to make digital archives and tools, models, installations, works of fiction and workshops. I document here how I work as well as what I work on.

Since 2020, together with geographer Sasha Engelmann, I have co-led the art, tech, and pedagogy collective, open-weather. Open-weather is a feminist experiment in imaging and imagining the earth and its weather systems using open-source software and low-cost hardware. We have made artworks, run workshops, and built accessible tools for DIY satellite imagery reception and decoding. Visit open-weather’s Public Archive to access the 2.5K satellite images archived by its patchy yet planetary network of more than 100 DIY Satellite Ground Stations.

I teach at Design Academy Eindhoven on the Information Design Master’s, and am a PhD researcher at the University of Westminster.

Across my practice and teaching, I bring experience of working at the intersection of human rights, technology, and design. From 2017 to 2019, I worked as a Military Advocacy Officer and then Senior Researcher at the transparency and civilian casualty monitor, Airwars. From 2020 to 2023, I worked at Amnesty International in its Crisis Response Programme in the Evidence Lab. There, I led its global crowdsourcing initiative, Amnesty Decoders, and worked on open-source investigations and their communication. Most recently, I was an External Advisor to Forensic Architecture.

I studied Visual Communication at The Glasgow School of Art, before completing a Master’s at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths. From 2020 to 2021, I was an Affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

 

Mind the typo! I am dyslexic and it isn’t always possible or practical for someone to proof what I write on this website.

Sophie Dyer. Photo: Roel Backaerd