Category: writing

• Meanderings of Marques

  Apr 30

  I have begun to use a new public-facing blogging platform to collate my writings on the England Coast Path project and host a whole range of miscellaneous topics from my… more ›

• Spector Books publish Doors of Learning

  Aug 30

  I have contributed to the creation of a book that accompanies the Bauhaus Dessau exhibition I co-curated. In 1988, a seminar was held at the Bauhaus Dessau as part of… 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 ›

• Urban Pamphleteer #9: Reimagining the night

  Dec 15

  Following years of supporting the Urban Pamphleteer through my role as Centre Manager of UCL Urban Laboratory, I was pleased to have the opportunity to co-edit an edition of the… more ›

• Sound Advice presents Now You Know

  Jun 14

  I’ve written an article (‘Remote’) for Now You Know, a publication exploring spatial inequality in architecture. Exclusion and racial bias are built into our cities. In its debut publication, Sound… more ›

• Power to the Citizen! manifesto

  Dec 5

  In 2017 I co-produced a manifesto for the public authoring of our cities as a call-to-action for academics, digital practitioners and citizens. Power to the Citizen! outlines key ideas emerging… more ›

• Planning Perspectives review of Richard Florida’s ‘The New Urban Crisis’

  Jul 5

  Alongside Sidra Ahmed, Olivia Smith, and Andrew Harris, I wrote a review of the urbanist Richard Florida’s book The New Urban Crisis: how our cities are increasing inequality, deepening segregation,… more ›

• Animating the interstice: Protest as a creative act on the fringe of the ‘creative city’

  Jun 14

  Regular strikes by university staff in the UK sparked a great deal of debate in 2018. I reflected on the spatial implications of the UCU strike and how these might… more ›

• Engaged Urbanism: Cities and Methodologies

  Nov 25

  I worked as an Editorial Assistant on this volume published by Bloomsbury in 2016 that explores innovative and experimental methodologies designed by academics, artists, activists and others to produce new… more ›