Chiara Haefliger

Chiara Haefliger https://chiarahaefliger.com Chiara Haefliger Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:22:49 +0000 https://chiarahaefliger.com en Home https://chiarahaefliger.com/Home Sun, 07 Aug 2022 17:09:04 +0000 Chiara Haefliger https://chiarahaefliger.com/Home I’m Chiara Haefliger, a writer and researcher based in London. My work explores the politics and materiality of media, technology and visual cultures. I am currently a PhD student at Goldsmiths, University of London, supported by a SENSS (ESRC) studentship. My research investigates the extractive and financial logics behind data centre expansion in the UK. My writing has appeared in The Toe Rag, Verso Blog, and Another Gaze. <img width="5712" height="4284" width_o="5712" height_o="4284" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f6d6f3c2a201f473f719ee2f553d0e29806fb07b2d021b902abb34c9bcf80401/IMG_0885_copy.jpg" data-mid="247418418" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f6d6f3c2a201f473f719ee2f553d0e29806fb07b2d021b902abb34c9bcf80401/IMG_0885_copy.jpg" />A data centre in the Isle of Dogs (photograph my own). To get in touch, please email me at: chiarahaefliger@icloud.com window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-D4X2PW22E2'); PhD Research https://chiarahaefliger.com/PhD-Research Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:22:49 +0000 Chiara Haefliger https://chiarahaefliger.com/PhD-Research PhD Research: Data Centres as Financial AssetsOctober 2025 — ongoing I’m currently a PhD researcher jointly based in the Departments of Visual Cultures and Media, Communications and Cultural Studies (MCCS) at Goldsmiths, University of London. My doctoral project investigates the rapid expansion of data centres in the UK and their entanglements with global capital, energy and resource extractivism, and local communities.Through a mixed-methods approach, I am examining two case studies: the established cluster of data centres in London’s Docklands and the planned Cambois AI Data Centre Campus in Northumberland, set to be the largest in Europe. By combining ethnographic research with theoretical and historical analysis, my project seeks, (1) to understand how data centres operate as financial assets within investment portfolios, and (2) its impact in reshaping infrastructures, economies, and the livelihoods of local populations.This research is supported by a fully funded South and East Network for Social Sciences (SENSS) studentship, awarded by the UKRI’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).              <img width="4284" height="5712" width_o="4284" height_o="5712" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b9912c169ed6d4e9432da4a7861c76e6471d8dfd3034a647fdff881ba59d1d1d/IMG_0865.jpg" data-mid="247421619" border="0" data-scale="76" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b9912c169ed6d4e9432da4a7861c76e6471d8dfd3034a647fdff881ba59d1d1d/IMG_0865.jpg" /> A data centre in the Isle of Dogs, March 2026. Photography my own. window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-D4X2PW22E2'); Recent Writing https://chiarahaefliger.com/Recent-Writing Sun, 07 Aug 2022 17:09:07 +0000 Chiara Haefliger https://chiarahaefliger.com/Recent-Writing Recent Writing 2026 ‘A Conversation with Mary Helena Clark’, Interview, Another Gaze, March 2026 2025 ‘Haunted Archives: Memory, Storage and the Politics of Digital Preservation’, Essay, Verso Blog, June 2025 2024 ‘Going Off Plan: Hongxi Li at NEVEN’, Review, The Toe Rag, Issue 4, October 2024Jochen Holz: Playing with Limitations, Artist Profile, Neues Glas: Art & Architecture, No.1/2024 2022 Kaja Upelj: Inspiration from Interaction, Artist Profile, Neues Glas: Art & Architecture, No.4/2022 window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-D4X2PW22E2'); Events & Talks https://chiarahaefliger.com/Events-Talks Sat, 14 Jun 2025 10:32:49 +0000 Chiara Haefliger https://chiarahaefliger.com/Events-Talks Events & Talks Academic Stop Dirty Data Centres Panel Discussion & Assembly, with Dan McQuillan, Gavin Duffy and Dylan Orchard, 6 November 2026Walking Tour of Canary Wharf Data Centres, 7 November 2026Extractive Infrastructures: Data Centres, Assetization and Environmental Injustice in London’s Docklands (June 2026). Paper presented at the Data Justice Conference, Cardiff University, run by the Data Justice Lab Extractive Infrastructures: Data Centres, Assetization and Environmental Injustice in London’s Docklands (June 2026). Paper presented at the Critical AI Virtual Network Assembly, Goldsmiths, University of London (online) Film Screenings & Workshops ‘Ticket of No Return’, Film Screening, Atlas Cinema, April 2025 ‘annus mirabilis’, Short Film, Goldsmiths, University of London Open City x Another Gaze Critics Workshop, Open City Documentary Festival, September 2023 Publications ‘non-human animals’, Pagemasters x South London Gallery Zine Fair, September 2022