Tag: London

• ‘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 ›

• The Gathering 2024

  Oct 27

  I was selected to join iniva’s The Gathering, a unique space centring Global Majority UK-based artists and cultural workers to convene in exploration of restorative practices and to build frameworks… more ›

• Queering the built environment curriculum

  Jul 6

  I contributed to a chapter in the publication Engaged Urban Pedagogy: Participatory practices in planning and place-making edited by Lucy Natarajan and Michael Short, and published by UCL Press (2023).… 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 ›

• 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 ›

• When spring smiles again on this high favoured town

  May 2

  I collaborated with urban anthropologist Joseph Cook (UCL) to produce an exhibition proposing an alternative heritage for South Norwood, as part of the Inventing South Norwood programme funded by Historic… more ›

• Whitechapel Gallery ‘Angel Alley’ jury member

  Dec 16

  I was asked to join the jury for a curatorial commission at Whitechapel Gallery in December 2021 concerning the institution’s responsibility for Angel Alley, a narrow street situated between Freedom… 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 ›

• Urban Lab Films curation

  Sep 10

  For seven years between 2014 and 2021, I curated London’s only regular film screening programme documenting cities and their social lives. Organised through UCL Urban Laboratory, Urban Lab Films facilitated… more ›

• Jury member for Architecture Film Festival London 2021

  Jun 25

  I was a jury member for the second edition of the Architecture Film Festival London, part of the London Festival of Architecture. The role included evaluating and awarding a winner… more ›

• ‘Victoria’ and ‘State of Exception’ at the Open City Documentary Festival 2020

  Sep 15

  During the 2020 edition of London’s annual Open City Documentary Festival, I was commissioned to contribute to a number of activities. I wrote an accompanying essay forVictoria, a collaborative directorial… more ›

• UCL Bike Buddy

  Jul 27

  We need to get more people on bikes as we begin returning to offices, so I’m very happy to offer my cycling services to UCL colleagues! I wrote a little… 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 ›

• City, Essay, Film

  Jul 9

  I co-curated this one-day symposium and accompanying film screening programme alongside David Anderson (UCL) in June and July 2019. An international line-up of researchers, practitioners, artists and critics joined us… 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 ›

• 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 ›

• 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 ›

• MRes Architecture crit at the RCA

  Feb 6

  I was invited to contribute to a crit on the MRes Architecture programme at the Royal College of Arts on 6 February 2018. Led by the student research collective of… more ›

• Edge: Situated Practice in Art, Architecture and Urbanism

  Nov 4

  I organised a 2017 collaboration with the Folkestone Triennial which brought together conversations on architecture, public contemporary art and urban ‘placemaking’. The multi-disciplinary range of speakers, performers and creative masterclass… 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 ›

• 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 ›

• The Storm: A Utopian Forecast for London?

  Jun 26

  As part of my work with UCL Urban Laboratory, I co-hosted a dialogue and collaboration with artist collective Fourthland at Somerset House on 29 June 2016. Employing an experimental pedagogy –… more ›

• Cities Methodologies exhibition series

  Oct 31

  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… more ›