Tim Waterman

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3 February, 2026

Open Access and Public Domain Imagery Online

Here is a list of excellent Internet sources for public domain/open access/copyleft images for art, architecture, and landscape. Remember that these images need to be referenced just the same as any copyrighted imagery. Many of these sites require registration or log in, and some mix open access images with images for which a fee must […]

1 January, 2026

New Year’s Resolutions for Universities

Here are a few resolutions for universities I posted before New Year 2026. They’re not perfect and they’re not comprehensive, and they don’t cover nearly as much ground as the wonderful Reclaiming Our University manifesto. They also fall short of utopianism, but they’re still far more radical than a lot of the tiny bandages being […]

9 March, 2024

Approaching Queer Island: Worlding and Imagining the Other

This is an odd (well, queer) little piece I wrote a couple of years ago. I’m not sure if it stands alone, but I’m not sure what else to do with it, so I’ll just leave it here. It begins with an attempt to imagine myself as an Indigenous ancestor in a part of the […]

29 November, 2025

Grace and the Poetics of Remediation

This piece was published in the 12th International Biennial of Landscape Architecture Barcelona Catalogue, and I will certainly be developing these themes and giving them the larger consideration they deserve in future.  Poetics is the theory of the structure and form of poetry. As a study, it is concerned with how poetry is made and […]

19 September, 2024

Living and Studying in London

Here is a list of resources I worked to compile with the help of colleagues at the Bartlett School of Architecture, and which I have continued to update for the benefit of our landscape architecture students. There’s so much good information here I think it’s worthwhile to share here too! I’ve removed the Bartlett- and […]

9 February, 2024

Utopia ‘Down by the Power Lines’: Mojo Nixon’s Psychobilly Cockaigne

Pieter Bruegel’s 1567 painting of Luilekkerland (the land of Cockaigne), housed in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. Note the pies as roof tiles and the roast pig walking around in the background. All these dudes need are some couches. Mojo Nixon has just died, aged 66, on 7 February 2024. I can’t help but imagine […]