Following the publication of Written Portraits Di Sherlock’s conversations with visitors to Maggie’s West London and staff working in cancer care at Charing Cross Hospital are now poster designs. In collaboration with staff at Charing Cross Hospital, these posters are displayed in clinical waiting areas. Visitors can read the poems, scan the QR codes, read and listen. Copies of the printed book are also available to read and take home. The posters have extracts selected from different poems. Each poster was produced by graphic designer Peter Field.

This short booklet provides an overview of our work in personalised breast cancer medicine and healthcare.

Please click here to download it as a PDF.

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On September 17^th the People Like You team held a public event at Kings Place, London, on Contemporary Figures of Personalisation. It was an opportunity to showcase some of the work of our project, incuding presentations from three artists in residence, and to discuss key issues in personalisation across a range of sectors. Here are some images from the day.

Highlights from the day can be found in our blog “Those shoes that follow you round the internet”: contemporary figures of personalisation

Click here to see the video recordings of the sessions.

‘People Like You’ hosted a small workshop exploring a new political arithmetic that puts data in dynamic relation through tracking, analysis, and feedback. Here’s some images from the two days, you can also read about it on our blog.

Figuration may encompass any or all of processes of representation, calculation, analogisation, prediction, and conceptualisation. It cuts across multiple scales, epistemological modes, and disciplinary areas of enquiry. It tackles problems that cross into disparate disciplines. The conference proposition was that it can help us think and study our increasingly datified present.

Over two days, more than 50 presenters and 4 keynote speakers addressed how the ‘figure’ and its variants—figuration, figuring, to figure, and so on—is being developed and used in disciplines including the medical humanities, the social sciences, media studies, art history, literary studies, philosophy, science and technology studies, urban studies, and geography.