ABOUT

Expert in urban visual culture, graffiti, and public signage. Currently researching street posters, graffiti removal, and urban surface maintenance in Melbourne, Australia; and urban visual heritage in Kampala, Uganda.

Author of “Urban surfaces, graffiti, and the right to the city” (Routledge 2024).

Postdoctoral research fellow at the Melbourne Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne.

Co-founder of the international Urban Surfaces Research Network.

ABC Top5 Humanities winner 2024, with media appearances on ABC Radio National, A is for Architecture, and New Books Network. Expert commentator for “Banksy and the Stolen Girl” documentary (2023).

Chair of the Australasian Early Career Urban Research Network (AECURN).

Co-editor of the Visual Studies journal.

Researches, writes, and comments on:

Graffiti, street art, and contestation of urban space.
Policy and history of outdoor advertising, billboards, street posters.
Visual and artistic aspects of urban culture and urban design.
Public writing, signage, and urban communication.
Public space, vandalism, and spatial justice.

sabina.andron@unimelb.edu.au