I want­ed to write a short note about Noort­je Mar­res’ book .

The book has been incred­i­bly use­ful for a few of us in think­ing through the Teni­son Road mate­ri­als, espe­cial­ly the lat­ter stages of the work where we deployed a range of devices for vot­ing and visu­al­is­ing data. The book has helped us to see the Bull­frogs, phys­i­cal charts and posters we’ve built as “par­tic­i­pa­tion tech­nolo­gies” (to use Noort­je’s term) and reflect on how they have opened up a wider range of ways for peo­ple to engage in local and civic mat­ters. Com­bined with Doreen Massey’s ideas on , we’re begin­ning to see the entan­gle­ments of par­tic­i­pa­tion and tech­nol­o­gy as a means of enact­ing place, and expand­ing the ways place is, as it were, per­formed. Place then comes to be some­thing that can be active­ly fig­ured through a diverse set of par­tic­i­pa­tion technologies.