The Climate Emergency Software Alliance (CESA) no longer exists;
Indonesia’s Yayasan Climate Emergency Software Alliance is here:
https://cesaglobal.org/


CogniCity OSS is here:
https://cognicity.info/


Siti OSS is here:
https://sitioss.info/

Selected Bibliography


CESA designed and developed open source software and attendant social strategies through a practice of itinerant, collective, continuous research. In the spirit of open source, we believe in documenting and sharing research from all the contributors to our work.


Mahtani, N. & E. Turpin. 2021. Video. "The Same River, Twice,” produced with Yayasan Peta Bencana for the M+ Museum for Visual Culture, permanent collection on 21st century Urban Design, Hong Kong.

Mahtani, N. & E. Turpin. 2021. Essay. "Abandoning Indonesia's Sinking Megacity," Foreground.

Mahtani, N. 2020. Essay. “Torential Urbanism and the Future Subjunctive,” e-flux.

Mahtani, N. & E. Turpin. 2020. Essay. "There is no capital: Reflections on accumulation and abandonment in Indonesia," Kerb 28, 10–17.

Mahtani, N. & E. Turpin. 2020. Essay. "The Multiple Must be Made: Software for a City Yet to Come," The Impossibility of Mapping (Urban Asia), eds. U.M. Bauer, K. Ong, and R. Nelson. Singapore: World Scientific, 218–231.

Mahtani, N., and E. Turpin. 2018. Essay. “Neuroecologies of Attention & Intelligence in the Megacity: Learning with PetaBencana.id,” in Perspecta 51: 107-118.

Turpin, E. 2017. Essay. "Jakarta: A Colonial Water Management Fantasy Park," Technosphere Magazine, Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

Mahtani, N. 2017. Essay. “Impressions of Disaster,” e-flux.

Stull, K. & E. Turpin. 2017. Essay. "The Fog of War Machines," in The Monsoon [+ Other Airs], eds. Lindsay Bremner and Georgia Trower, 63–78.

Turpin, E. 2017. Essay. "Theses on the Laboratory City," Place Labor Capital, ed. Uta Meta Bauer. Singapore: NTU Centre for Contemporary Art.

Turpin, E. 2017. Essay. “The Laboratory City,” SKETSA Architectural Magazine. Jakarta: Tarumanagara University, 36–41.

Stull, K. and E. Turpin. 2017. Essay. “Our Vectors, Ourselves,” e-flux.

Sedlar, F. and E. Turpin. 2016. Video. “Conspiracy of the Anthros,” produced for ‘The Practice of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene,’ 11th International Conference on The Arts in Society, UCLA.

Moe, K., T. Holderness, E. Turpin. 2016. Interview. “Design for Dissipative Structures,” in Architecture, Energy, Matter, eds. L. Bremner and R. Bottazzi. University of Westminster, 34–42.

Holderness, T. and E. Turpin, E. 2016. Essay. “From Social Media to GeoSocial Intelligence: Experiments with Crowdsourcing Civic Co-Management for Flood Response,” in Social Media for Government Services, eds. S. Nepal, C. Paris, D. Georgakopoulos. New York: Springer, 115–134.

Dean, S. and E. Turpin. “Machinic Apprenticeship,” Volume 49 (09.2016): 102–107.

Holderness, T. and E. Turpin. 2016. Op-Ed, ‘Public Leaders Forum.’ “How tweeting about flooding became a civic duty in Jakarta,” The Guardian.

Geros, C. and E. Turpin. 2016. Video. “Is the City a Laboratory,” commissioned for the exhibition Incomplete Urbanism: Attempts of Critical Spatial Practice, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore.

Holderness, T. and E. Turpin. 2016. Video. “CogniCity OSS: Software as Infrastructure for Climate Adaptation,” produced for the Open Data Award granted by the Open Data Institute, UK. 

Turpin, E. and T. Holderness. 2015. Essay. “Floods in Jakarta? Tweeting Now,” in Strategic Review 5.1: 26–35.

Holderness T. and E. Turpin. 2015. White Paper. PetaJakarta.org: Assessing the Role of Social Media for Civic Co-Management During Monsoon Flooding in Jakarta, Indonesia. Wollongong: SMART Infrastructure Facility, University of Wollongong.

Holderness, T., G. Quaggiotto, and E. Turpin. 2015. Interview. “Combining ‘Big’ and ‘Small’ Data to Build Urban Resilience in Jakarta,” United Nations Global Pulse.

Turpin, E. 2014. Interview. “What Do Cities Tell Us About Their Inhabitants’ Desires?” in tourette | encounters.

Bobbette, A., M. Miller, E. Turpin, eds. 2013. Book. Jakarta: Architecture + AdaptationDepok: Universitas Indonesia Press.

Bobbette, A., M. Miller, E. Turpin. 2013. Essay. “Architecture, Adaptive Capacity, and the Futures of Hypercomplexity,” in Kerb: Journal of Landscape Architecture 21: 98–103.

Turpin, E. 2013. Review. “Architecture in our Humanitarian Present,” in FUSE: Art + Culture + Politics 36-1.

Bobbette, A., M. Miller, E. Turpin. 2012. Essay. “Jakarta: Design Research and the Futures of Hypercomplexity, in MONU 17 – ‘Next Urbanisms. ‘