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Refereed journal articles

Foulds Chris, and Lara Houston. 2026. ****‘The making of a funding call text: How funding professionals craft interdisciplinary research opportunities for sustainability’. Research Policy 55 (4) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2026.105418.

Vervoort, J.M., T. Smeenk, I. Zamuruieva, L.L Reichelt, M. van Veldhoven, L. Rutting, A. Light, L. Houston, L., R. Wolstenholme, M. Dolejšová, A. Jain, J. Ardern, R. Catlow, K. Vaajakallio, Z. Falay von Flittner, J. Putrle-Srdić, J. Lohmann, C. Moossdorff, T. Mattelmäki, C. Ampatzidou, J.H. Choi, A. Botero, K.A. Thompson, J. Torrens, R. Lane, A.C. Mangnus. 2024. ‘9 Dimensions for Evaluating How Art and Creative Practice Stimulate Societal Transformations’. Ecology and Society 29 (1). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-14739-290129.

Light, Ann, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Lara Houston, and Andrea Botero. 2024. ‘Enacting Entanglement: CreaTures, Socio-Technical Collaboration and Designing a Transformative Ethos’. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 33 (4): 1223–59. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-024-09497-8.

Houston, Lara, Jennifer Gabrys, and Helen Pritchard. 2019. ‘Breakdown in the Smart City: Exploring Workarounds with Urban-Sensing Practices and Technologies’. Science, Technology, & Human Values 44 (5): 843–70. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243919852677.

Pritchard, Helen, Jennifer Gabrys, and Lara Houston. 2018. ‘Re-Calibrating DIY: Testing Digital Participation across Dust Sensors, Fry Pans and Environmental Pollution’. New Media & Society 20 (12): 4533–52. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444818777473.

Journal special issue edited

Gabrys, Jennifer, Helen Pritchard and Lara Houston. 2019. Sensing Practices Special Issue Science, Technology & Human Values 44 (5). DOI: 10.1177/0162243919852677.

Invited chapters in edited collections

Houston, Lara. 2025. ‘Consuming Knowledge’. In Consuming the Environment, edited by Myra J. Hird. Routledge SCORAI-Studies in Sustainable Consumption. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Light, Ann, Lara Houston, and Ruth Catlow. 2024. ‘Intimate Translations: Transforming the Urban Imagination’. In Designing More-than-Human Smart Cities: Beyond Sustainability, Towards Cohabitation, edited by Sara Heitlinger, Marcus Foth, and Rachel Clarke. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191980060.003.0016.

Houston, Lara, Sara Heitlinger, Ruth Catlow, and Alex S. Taylor. 2023. ‘Algorithmic Food Justice’. In Ecological Reparation: Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict, edited by Dimitris Papadopoulos, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, and Maddalena Tacchetti. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press.

Heitlinger, Sara, Lara Houston, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Alex Taylor, and Ruth Catlow. 2023. ‘More-than-Human Computer Interaction for Urban Food Governance’. In Routledge Handbook of Urban Food Governance, edited by Anna Davies, Jane Battersby, Ana Moragues-Faus, and Jill K. Clark. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Heitlinger, Sara, Lara Houston, and Taylor Alex. 2022. ‘Nature 3.0: Blockchain for Extraction or Care?’ In Radical Friends: Decentralised Autonomous Organisations and the Arts, edited by Ruth Catlow and Rafferty Penny. UK: Torque Editions.

Jackson, Steven J., and Lara Houston. 2021. ‘The Poetics and Political Economy of Repair’. In Media: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry, edited by Jeremy Swartz and Janet Wasko. Bristol, UK: Intellect.

Houston, Lara. 2019. ‘Mobile Phone Repair Knowledge in Downtown Kampala: Local and Trans-Local Circulations’. In Repair Work Ethnographies: Revisiting Breakdown, Relocating Materiality, edited by Ignaz Strebel, Alain Bovet, and Philippe Sormani. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.

Refereed conference proceedings

Houston, Lara, Ann Light, and Cassie Thornton. 2022. ‘The Richness of Designing for Eco-Social Change: Creative Practice, Transformative Futures and Living within Limits’. In Eighth Workshop on Computing within Limits 2022. LIMITS. https://doi.org/10.21428/bf6fb269.eb087907.

Dolejšová, Markéta, Cristina Ampatzidou, Lara Houston, Ann Light, Andrea Botero, Jaz Choi, Danielle Wilde, et al. 2021. ‘Designing for Transformative Futures: Creative Practice, Social Change and Climate Emergency’. In Creativity and Cognition, 1–9. Virtual Event Italy: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3450741.3465242.