Sophie 'Soph' Dyer is an designer, educator, and sometime writer. Their work uses participatory and investigative design to explore anticolonial and feminist approaches to weather, climate, and social justice issues more broadly.

For the last five years, Sophie co-led open-weather. For all open-weather works, alongside the 2.5K satellite images archived by the collective, see the project site.

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Exhibition: Another Space Agency is Possible ASAP
Workshop: Insurgent Meteorologies at The Architecture Fringe 2026
Interview: Counter-Mapping: A Research Method in Art and Design

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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.
(January 2021 – June 2022)
Amnesty International
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