THE RIGHT TO THE SURFACE IS THE RIGHT TO THE CITY
Join Chris Parkinson and me to play with the surface of MPavilion Parkville on the University of Melbourne's campus. Chris and I have won an artist residency-project grant for our proposal SURFACITY, which will create new surfaces in the pavilion to explore urban character, identity and culture.Â
Three incredible weeks of fieldwork in Kampala, Uganda, for the Urban visual cultures project.
I am thrilled to announce that the Urban Surfaces Research Network has been awarded an Urban Studies Foundation seminar series award for the project ‘Walls speak. Are you listening? A research agenda for urban surfaces’.
We re-launched the Australasian Early Career Urban Research Network (AECURN) with a panel at the Institute of Australian Geographers annual conference in Newcastle, NSW.
I organised the session "Urban surfaces: architectural perspectives on public walls" at the Society of Architectural Historians annual conference in Atlanta on my birthday - 2 May 2025.
Writer, broadcaster and educator Tom Dyckhoff and urban scholar Sabina Andron study transgressive aspects of the urban conditions — at vandalised and marginalised spaces as opportunities made and found in the city. This tender and candid conversation draws on personal experiences that drive their respective practices of writing about space.
Taking the graffiti removal work to Canada for the Urban Affairs Association conference in Vancouver! My paper was titled "Visual orders and legal slippages in graffiti removal practices" and was aptly hosted at the WALL CENTRE 😉
I went live on Sydney community radio 2SER to talk about why graffiti is rarely seen as belonging to urban spaces, and the ways in which buff (or graffiti removal) can be seen as an aesthetic form, rather than just an act of erasure.
Graffiti removal is the practice of removing, erasing or obliterating unauthorised displays from publicly visible urban surfaces.
SABINA ANDRON 