Sophie 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.

Latest exhibition: Another Space Agency is Possible ASAP
Latest interview: Counter-Mapping: A Research Method in Art and Design

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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.
(January 2020)
Royal College of Art
Hyde Park
London
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Collective sensing of the NOAA-19 weather satellite, using amateur radio equipment and software-defined radio (SDR). The satellite séances are part of an ongoing research project developed with Sasha Engelmann into feminist histories of remote sensing.

Images from a seminar with students from the ADS7 Studio at the School of Architecture, Royal College of Art, London.

  • Pre-pass talk with Sasha Engelmann. Photo: Marco Ferrari
  • NOAA-19 Infrared Enhancement, Hyde Park, 16:22, 21 Jan 2020
  • NOAA-19 MCIR, Hyde Park, 16:22, 21 Jan 2020
  • NOAA-19 Sea Surface Temp, Hyde Park, 16:22, 21 Jan 2020
  • NOAA-19 Thermal, Hyde Park, 16:22, 21 Jan 2020
  • NOAA-19 Cloud Top Temperatures, Hyde Park, 16:22, 21 Jan 2020