Category: talks

• ‘Win’ film premiere

  Sep 25

  I hosted a Q&A panel as part of the premiere of Born By A River’s short film Win on Wednesday 1 October at the Curzon Hoxton in London. The tender… more ›

• Critical Dialogues of the Post-Covid City

  Apr 20

  I was a panellist on a UCL-University of Toronto Strategic Partnership Seminar on 20 April 2023, organised by the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL. We discussed the challenges faced across… more ›

• (In)Visible Cities film season

  Nov 19

  I was commissioned to write an essay and film an introduction for the (In)Visible Cities film season at Close Up Film Centre in November 2022. Inspired by Italo Calvino’s novel… more ›

• Economy and Trade in Tanzania workshop lead

  Oct 9

  I was invited by Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung to lead two workshops in the World Café format as part of their Tanzania Network event on ‘Economy and Trade in Tanzania’. Taking place in… more ›

• Culture and Community Spaces at Risk masterclass lead

  May 5

  I was commissioned by We Made That to lead a masterclass on cultural infrastructure in London, as part of their work with the Greater London Authority’s Culture at Risk team.… more ›

• Rethinking Art Galleries and Museums workshop

  Jan 22

  I presented a paper on my museums research at the University of Manchester-AHRC-Manchester Art Gallery ‘Rethinking Art Galleries and Museums: Interventions, Collections and Communities’ workshop on 22 January 2022. I… more ›

• The Killing of Mark Duggan with Forensic Architecture

  Nov 3

  Following a screening of Forensic Architecture’s The Killing of Mark Duggan (2019) and an introduction by FA’s Nicholas Masterton, I acted as respondent at this event organised by The Bartlett… more ›

• Unfinished Symphonies: Transformational Decolonial Urbanism

  Jul 8

  I was invited to present a paper at the Unfinished Symphonies event series hosted by The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and Wits University in July 2021. The online roundtables… more ›

• Constructing Realities – Urban Surveillance

  Feb 27

  I chaired a panel between artists and researchers Henrietta Williams and Merijn Royaards at The Bartlett School of Architecture’s Constructing Realities lecture series in Here East on 27 February 2020.… more ›

• ‘The Street’ film discussion

  Nov 26

  As part of my curation of the Urban Lab Films series, I chaired a post-screening discussion of Zed Nelson’s The Street (2019) at Curzon Bloomsbury, in collaboration with Bertha DocHouse.… more ›

• Bloomsbury Festival: Activism and Architects of Change – ‘Urban Storytelling’

  Oct 20

  I presented two pieces of work during the 2018 Bloomsbury Festival as part of a session on urban storytelling. The first was a project where I visited every Tennyson Road… more ›

• Urbanising the Museum roundtable

  Apr 24

  I was a participant in a Theatrum Mundi workshop in April 2018 on what conditions constitute urbanity, and what it means for a museum to embody those conditions. The roundtable was organised within… more ›

• ‘Queer Urbanisms’: Cross-disciplinary conversations on sexualities, queerness and space

  Mar 19

  I chaired a session on ‘Queer Urbanisms’ as part of a half-day symposium supported by the Royal Geographic Society (with IBG) that brought together postgraduates working in range of disciplines… more ›

• New Cultural Infrastructure: Can we design the conditions for culture?

  Dec 15

  I was an invited participant in an LSE Cities-Theatrum Mundi roundtable bringing makers of culture together with makers of cultural infrastructure, hosted at The Trampery, Old Street, in December 2016. In his… more ›