Open-weather is a feminist project, an experiment in imaging and imagining the earth and its weather systems using DIY tools. They weave storytelling with low cost hardware and open-source software to transform our relations to a planet in climate crisis.

Researcher-designer Sophie Dyer and creative geographer Sasha Engelmann co-lead open-weather, a collaborative project that revolves around imaging and imagining the Earth and its weather systems through experiments in amateur radio, open data and feminist tactics of sensing and séance.

Operating within a rich and diverse ecology of practices at the intersection of DIY technology, pedagogy and art, open-weather encompasses artworks, workshops and how-to guides, in which feminist principles are as important as the technicalities of antennas, software and laptops. The duo’s feminist approach to sensing and reading satellite imagery challenges dominant representations of Earth and the environment, bringing the body into play and complicating ideas of the weather beyond the meteorological.