international - Ellie Harrison

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Faut-il privatiser les transports en commun?

16 Apr 2023
27, ARTE (France)
Media

Busverkehr in Großbritannien „Ein Desaster“

22 Dec 2022
Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Deutschlandradio (Germany)
Lecture

Alternatives: mobility industry & public ownership

28 Jun 2022
Automotive Industry: Just Transition & the development of alternatives in the international value chains, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brussels (Belgium)
Media

Glasgow: 18 million trees can’t be wrong part II

27 Dec 2021
Dr. Klangendum, de Concertzender (Netherlands)
Exhibition

Magallanes y las geografías de lo (des)conocido

6 Sep 2021
Parque Cultural de Valparaíso (Chile)
Media

Magallanes y las geografías de lo (des)conocido

23 Aug 2021
Artishock (Chile)
Media

The City Adapts

19 Oct 2020
Embassy of Mobility, World Design Embassies (Netherlands)
Media

Künstlerin und Aktivistin Ellie Harrison über den “Glasgow Effect”

27 Oct 2019
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Germany)
Publication

Eat Me

23 Sep 2017
Trapholt (Denmark) (p.28 & p.154-155) ISBN 978-8772690216
Exhibition

Eat Me

23 Sep 2017
Trapholt, Kolding (Denmark)
Exhibition

Alles zur Zeit

21 May 2017
Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Pfäffikon (Switzerland)
Media

Rebellious Concepts

1 Apr 2017
Sleek (Issue 53 p.78-82) (Germany)
Exhibition

Show Me the Money!

10 Feb 2017
Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde (Denmark)
Media

Neu für euch: Eat 22

1 Jun 2016
Ambulanz (Germany) (p.28)
Media

‘Poverty safari’: Glasgow art project comes under fire

6 Jan 2016
Apollo
Media

Artist Defends Controversial Project to Stay Local in Glasgow

6 Jan 2016
Artnet News (USA)
Exhibition

Laboro Ergo Sum

7 Nov 2015
amberPlatform, Istanbul (Turkey)
Lecture

Data Traces

4 Jul 2015
Academy of Art & Design FHNW, Basel (Switzerland)
Publication

Poetics & Politics of Data

1 Jul 2015
Christoph Merian (Switzerland) (p.116-121) ISBN 978-3856166816
Exhibition

The Art of Self-Tracking

18 Jun 2015
QS15 Exposition, San Francisco (USA)
Exhibition

Poetics & Politics of Data

29 May 2015
HeK, Basel (Switzerland)
Installations

Life Raft

Designed as the final hole of Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf, Life Raft – a scale map of the UK floating in the adjacent canal – offers a safe haven to immigrant golf balls that can make the treacherous crossing.
Project website
Media

Artworks that Clock Working Life

20 Mar 2015
Hyperallergic
Media

After the Data Confessional: Interview with Ellie Harrison

24 Feb 2015
AVANT

Ellie Harrison Louise Haigh and Labour say that they will reform the complex fares system to ensure that passengers are confident that they are getting the best fare; confidence that X is the case, and X being the case are not necessarily the same thing. Simplification of fares would have to include the abolition of many fares. The assertion that simplifying the fares structure would reduce travelling costs is based upon a false premise, that being that the complicated-ness of the fares-and-ticketing structure is the reason why fares are expensive, that is not why they are expensive. They are expensive because the base level is too high. If you massively simplify the fares, one might then always be certain of getting the best available fare because there are no obscure cheaper fare hidden away in a Byzantine monolith, but that best fare is likely the best of a bad bunch. Railway fares are complicated, but it is within this myriad complexity that the nuances which facilitate cheaper options lurk; if you take a sledgehammer to the behemoth you bring down the cheaper options which lurk within the behemoth. If there are presently 18 options for doing Thing X, with 15 of those ways being cheap, and 3 of those ways being expensive, if you abolish the 15 cheap options for doing thing X you have massively simplified the paying-to-do-Thing X process because having 3 ways is much simpler than having 18 ways, and you have made it such that one is highly unlikely to not notice the cheapest of the available fares, because one is more likely to notice something when it is one amongst 3 than if it is one amongst 18, but it is nevertheless the case that the person is selecting the cheapest of the 3 most expensive. (i) Being guaranteed to always get the best fare; and (ii). getting cheaper fares are not necessarily the same thing. Be mindful of the actual specific wording of things: both before and after coming into government, Labour has never in actually promised cheaper fares, what Labour has promised is that one will be guaranteed to get the best available fare. The general public, politicians and public-transport campaign organisations alike have been seduced by the word 'simplification'. Simplification is not a virtue in and of itself. Simplification is a neutral concept, neither a good thing nor a bad thing; what is pertinent and important is the nature of the simplification. One can simplify travelling costs upwards. Simplification can simplify out the cheaper options. I deliberately say 'travelling costs', not 'fares', because thinking only terms of fares when it comes to simplification of railway fares and ticketing, and when it comes to Single-Leg Pricing is a proverbial red herring, one should think both in terms of fares AND in terms of travelling costs. Fare decreases do not necessarily mean travelling-cost. LNER is a prime example: with the June of 2023 introduction of Single-Leg Pricing on LNER, and the February of 2024 introduced of the Simpler Fares pilot, travelling costs for using LNER have gone up. Two halved-in-price Singles are more expensive than one Day Return; a fare reduction, but a travelling-cost increase. The changes December of 2023 fares-and-ticketing changes on c2c have many of the same fare-decreases-but-travelling-cost increases as LNER, plus its pay-as-you-go tap-in-tap-out integration with Transport for London (to simplify things) has necessitated the introduction of a weekday early-evening peak period between 4.00 p.m. and 7.00 p.m., which has numerous knock-on effects which can hugely increase one's travelling costs. The answer is not reform of the fares-and-ticketing structure. The answer is not simplification of the fares-and-ticketing structure. The answer is to decrease the price of all existing fares. Do not abolish any existing fares. Do not introduce any new types of fare. Just make all existing fares 45% cheaper, and leave it at that.

As the idiom goes: 'Be careful what you wish for, because it might come true'. Reform will only be good if it is good reform. We don't need reform, we need good reform. Some might fear that prices would inevitably be rationalised upwards. Inevitably, the rationalisation would rationalise out the cheaper options. Some might fear that reform of the fares-and-ticketing structure would, inevitably, reform travelling costs upwards, and reform out the cheaper options. Some might fear that simplification of the fares-and-ticketing structure would, inevitably, simplify travelling costs upwards, and simplify out the cheaper options. Just take a look at LNER. Be careful what you wish for, because it might come true.

Faut-il privatiser les transports en commun?

16 Apr 2023 27, ARTE (France)

Busverkehr in Großbritannien „Ein Desaster“

22 Dec 2022 Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Deutschlandradio (Germany)

Alternatives: mobility industry & public ownership

28 Jun 2022 Automotive Industry: Just Transition & the development of alternatives in the international value chains, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brussels (Belgium)

Glasgow: 18 million trees can’t be wrong part II

27 Dec 2021 Dr. Klangendum, de Concertzender (Netherlands)

Magallanes y las geografías de lo (des)conocido

6 Sep 2021 Parque Cultural de Valparaíso (Chile)

Magallanes y las geografías de lo (des)conocido

23 Aug 2021 Artishock (Chile)

The City Adapts

19 Oct 2020 Embassy of Mobility, World Design Embassies (Netherlands)

Künstlerin und Aktivistin Ellie Harrison über den “Glasgow Effect”

27 Oct 2019 Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Germany)

Eat Me

23 Sep 2017 Trapholt (Denmark) (p.28 & p.154-155) ISBN 978-8772690216

Eat Me

23 Sep 2017 Trapholt, Kolding (Denmark)

Alles zur Zeit

21 May 2017 Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Pfäffikon (Switzerland)

Rebellious Concepts

1 Apr 2017 Sleek (Issue 53 p.78-82) (Germany)

Show Me the Money!

10 Feb 2017 Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde (Denmark)

Neu für euch: Eat 22

1 Jun 2016 Ambulanz (Germany) (p.28)

‘Poverty safari’: Glasgow art project comes under fire

6 Jan 2016 Apollo

Artist Defends Controversial Project to Stay Local in Glasgow

6 Jan 2016 Artnet News (USA)

Laboro Ergo Sum

7 Nov 2015 amberPlatform, Istanbul (Turkey)

Data Traces

4 Jul 2015 Academy of Art & Design FHNW, Basel (Switzerland)

Poetics & Politics of Data

1 Jul 2015 Christoph Merian (Switzerland) (p.116-121) ISBN 978-3856166816

The Art of Self-Tracking

18 Jun 2015 QS15 Exposition, San Francisco (USA)

Poetics & Politics of Data

29 May 2015 HeK, Basel (Switzerland)

Life Raft

Artworks that Clock Working Life

20 Mar 2015 Hyperallergic

After the Data Confessional: Interview with Ellie Harrison

24 Feb 2015 AVANT

16 Apr 2023
27, ARTE (France)

22 Dec 2022
Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Deutschlandradio (Germany)

28 Jun 2022
Automotive Industry: Just Transition & the development of alternatives in the international value chains, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brussels (Belgium)

27 Dec 2021
Dr. Klangendum, de Concertzender (Netherlands)

6 Sep 2021
Parque Cultural de Valparaíso (Chile)

23 Aug 2021
Artishock (Chile)

19 Oct 2020
Embassy of Mobility, World Design Embassies (Netherlands)

27 Oct 2019
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Germany)

23 Sep 2017
Trapholt (Denmark) (p.28 & p.154-155) ISBN 978-8772690216

23 Sep 2017
Trapholt, Kolding (Denmark)

21 May 2017
Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Pfäffikon (Switzerland)

1 Apr 2017
Sleek (Issue 53 p.78-82) (Germany)

10 Feb 2017
Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde (Denmark)

1 Jun 2016
Ambulanz (Germany) (p.28)

6 Jan 2016
Apollo

6 Jan 2016
Artnet News (USA)

7 Nov 2015
amberPlatform, Istanbul (Turkey)

4 Jul 2015
Academy of Art & Design FHNW, Basel (Switzerland)

1 Jul 2015
Christoph Merian (Switzerland) (p.116-121) ISBN 978-3856166816

18 Jun 2015
QS15 Exposition, San Francisco (USA)

29 May 2015
HeK, Basel (Switzerland)

20 Mar 2015
Hyperallergic

24 Feb 2015
AVANT