• Beware Blue Skies: The Psychology of Drone Warfare

    Immersive Film Launch Event and Panel Discussion

    14 November 2024, Imperial War Museum (London)

    Details here

  • Drone Aesthetics: War, Culture, Ecology

    Online Book Launch

    2 October 2024, 12-1:30pm BST

    Register here

  • Militarisation and Pleasure

    Special journal issue edited by Dr Alex Adams and Dr Amy Gaeta, March 2023

    Read here

  • Nonhuman Witnessing: Drone Warfare and its Violent Mediations

    Online talk by A/Prof Michael Richardson (UNSW), 20 June 2024

    Register here
  • Aerial view of Syrian migrants walking along a dirt road. Elongated shadows are cast on the ground. Photo from Rasmus Degnbol's "Europe's New Borders" series (2015)

    The "Politics of the Faceless": Proliferated Drone's-Eye Views of Forced Migration

    Journal Article by Dr Beryl Pong, May 2024

    Read Here

  • The Future of Death in an Algorithmic Age

    Hybrid Talk by Prof Anthony Downey (Birmingham City University), 3 May 2024

    Register here
  • Blue and purple graphic of a sign that reads "Birds Aren't Real". On the left hand side is a pigeon carrying a camera on its torso underneath a purple drone.

    Droned Birds

    Essay by Dr Amy Gaeta, February 2024

    Read here

  • We're hiring!

    Responsible AI and Colonial Museum Collections

    Job postings and project details here

  • From Sniper to Smartphone: Hybrid Warfare and the New Face of Conflict

    Event recap of November 2023 symposium

    Read here

  • The Spectral Turn of Satellites

    Online talk by Dr Mia Bennett (University of Washington), 18 October 2023

    Register Here

  • Topographic Algorithms: Reimagining Environmental Sensing and Representation

    Journal Article by Dr Richard Carter, June 2023

    Read here

  • The Art of Drone Warfare

    Journal Special Issue edited by Dr Beryl Pong, November 2022

    Read Here

Centre for Drones and Culture

How are drones impacting the way we see and relate to our world? How are unmanned technologies, and their relationships to AI, sensors, and simulation, influencing the way we interpret and experience social, political, and ecological events?

The Centre for Drones and Culture (CDAC) engages in the interdisciplinary study of drones in art, war, humanitarianism, and the environment.

The CDAC puts together projects, events, and publications related to the study of technology, aesthetics, and culture.

It brings together different disciplines, including from the humanities, social sciences, and computer sciences, for understanding how drones are affecting facets of everyday life.

The Centre for Drones and Culture is funded by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, ‘Droned Life: Data, Narrative, and the Aesthetics of Worldmaking’. The fellowship is hosted by the Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge.

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