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Every piece of technology we use is also using us. All That We Touch looks at familiar tools, systems, and habits and asks, how do they shape us? Hear deeply reported narrative series, interviews, and live recordings on the entangled relationships between technology, society, nature and politics, like:
- Wikipedia: A six-part investigation about what shapes the world's biggest encyclopedia, and how to use it better.
- Liquid Gold: What happens after we flush? Tracing human waste from taboo to treasure.
- NewGenics: The new frontier of embryo testing. What happens when the hope for a healthy child becomes the pressure to choose the best one?
All That We Touch is hosted by historian Tamson Pietsch and Matt Ryan from the University of Technology Sydney, and made by the award-winning UTS Impact Studios.
- Wikipedia: A six-part investigation about what shapes the world's biggest encyclopedia, and how to use it better.
- Liquid Gold: What happens after we flush? Tracing human waste from taboo to treasure.
- NewGenics: The new frontier of embryo testing. What happens when the hope for a healthy child becomes the pressure to choose the best one?
All That We Touch is hosted by historian Tamson Pietsch and Matt Ryan from the University of Technology Sydney, and made by the award-winning UTS Impact Studios.
Update frequency:
every 9 days
Average audio length:
39 minutes
Guest interviews
English
Australia
12 episodes
since June 30, 2026
episodic
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What would it take to keep hold of what makes us human, when the machines around us are doing so much of what only humans could once do?
All That We Touch returns with a conversation recorded live at Gleebooks, where pianist, educator and writer Anna Goldsworthy joins Princeton scholar Sophie Gee d…
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Welcome to the party!
In this episode, recorded live at in Chippendale, at the Abercrombie Hotel, we officially launch All That We Touch.
You'll hear two lively conversations.
In the first, Monica Attard from UTS's Centre for Media Transition speaks with researcher Heather Ford and writer Richard C…
What would it actually take to build a functioning circular economy in nutrients, starting with recycling human urine?
That's the question driving this bonus episode of Liquid Gold, recorded live at South by Southwest Sydney 2025. UTS researcher Dana Cordell chairs a panel that pushes past the nove…
Every time we flush, we send a valuable resource down the drain: phosphorus, one of the essential building blocks of life and a key ingredient in the fertiliser that grows the world's food, along with nitrogen and potassium.
Meanwhile, we mine phosphate rock and potash, and generate climate polluti…
How can Wikipedia editors work with Indigenous content in a responsible way?
Hear a panel discussion with Indigenous lawyers Dr Terri Janke, Shavonne Wright, and Matilda Langford on the new Wikimedia Australia guide to respectful, accurate engagement with Indigenous knowledge.
Oral knowledge can't …
Every student uses Wikipedia. Some schools and teachers still tell them not to.
This episode asks why, and explains how to teach Wikipedia literacy to primary and secondary school students, instead of banning it outright.
Researchers Heather Ford and Simon Knight answer questions and hear advice fr…
Five questions. Two hosts. One deceptively simple quiz. Can Wikipedia articles really be edited by anyone? Does the site rely on your $5 donations, or is there more to the story?
Host Heather Ford goes head-to-head with guest Simon Knight in a true-or-false showdown about Wikipedia. Almost nothing …
In the future, will Wikipedia still be written by humans?
This episode asks what happens to that promise as two very different futures close in.
Co-host and author Richard Cooke calls Wikipedia ‘the last best place on the internet’ - one of the only things still standing from the early web's promis…
Wikipedia promised to be the sum of all human knowledge. Then the fighting started.
Host Heather Ford and writer Richard Cooke walk through three of Wikipedia's biggest fight. Not the daily edit wars over the spelling of yoghurt, but the fights over what Wikipedia is, and whose knowledge gets to be…
Wikipedia doesn't set out to play favourites. But when a made-up Melbourne suburb has more history than real Australian places, something is shaping what gets written.
Who - or what - decides which Australian places matter on Wikipedia?
Hosts Heather Ford and Francesca Sidoti go looking, through a …
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