Tag: UCL

• 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 ›

• 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 ›

• 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 ›

• 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 ›

• 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 ›

• Night Scenes conference

  May 7

  Alongside Mia Rafalowicz-Campbell, I presented a paper in this online series organised as part of a Humanities in the European Research Area project on night spaces and migrant communites in… 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 ›

• 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 ›

• 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 ›

• 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 ›

• 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 ›

• Turning Tables: Reporting from the Education Front

  May 27

  This installation was a contribution I made to the 15th edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale as part of the Erasmus-funded URBAN LAB+ network, a collection of urban laboratories from… 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 ›