In 2014 I organised two editions of Cities Methodologies, a peer-reviewed exhibition and programme of events hosted by UCL Urban Laboratory and the Slade School of Fine Art to showcase innovative urban research methodologies.

Visitors at Cities Methologies encounter a marketplace of urbanism, where diverse methods of urban research are displayed in juxtaposition – from archival studies to digital media experiments, practice-led art, architectural and design work to filmmaking, soundscapes, games and public sculpture.

The programme aims to think and act collaboratively across the traditional silos of urban knowledge: activists alongside academics, artists alongside social scientists. There is an irreverence towards conventional hierarchies, and that also includes academic hierarchies. This allows younger, emerging generations of urbanists to come forward, and as the exhibitions showed, they display great energy and flexibility as transdisciplinary thinkers and actors that should inspire us to rethink traditional academic and professional structures.

The complex organisation covered all aspects of the exhibition’s production and communication, and I also acted as a tour guide at various points for the exhibition, whilst also chairing a couple of events. For the second edition in 2014, I also produced and recorded audio guides for the first time, available on Soundcloud.