THE RIGHT TO THE SURFACE IS THE RIGHT TO THE CITY
I gave my first keynote at the Cultural Geography symposium at the University of Melbourne on 2 July 2026. The title of my paper was "Walls speak. A research agenda for urban surfaces", and I presented some of my progress in thinking about surfaces.
We hosted our second in-person Urban Surfaces Research Workshop in sunny Nicosia, Cyprus: “Making and visualising surfaces in the city” ☀️
"Urban canvases: Kampala's visual culture through posters" was an exhibition at the Makerere University Art Gallery in Kampala, Uganda, 14-18 November 2025. We displayed 141 poster-size photographs of public images from the streets of Kampala, taken over three years of field work between 2023-25.
We are inviting expressions of interest to attend our online workshops in April, September, and November.
I am organising a session with Joanne Choueiri at the Royal Geographical Society annual conference, which will take place in London between 1-4 September 2026. The theme is "Geographies of concealment: Temporary Urban Barriers of Masking, Covering, and Hiding"
We are inviting expressions of interest to attend our two-day workshops in Nicosia, Cyprus and Uppsala, Sweden.
We delivered the first of three Urban Surfaces Research Network workshops in Melbourne with 18 brilliant participants.
The Urban Visual Dialogues series is going out with a bang for 2025, with a panel on visual governance which includes artists, activists, buffers, academics, and municipal managers.
My project, "Visual governance in the city: rethinking graffiti and public images" won a three-year fellowship awarded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) for research innovation by early career folks.
SABINA ANDRON 