THE RIGHT TO THE SURFACE IS THE RIGHT TO THE CITY
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.
A million thanks to the team at Nuart Journal for publishing a book forum on URBAN SURFACES - open access and with the best design ever!
I recently did the first round of fieldwork on a project on public signage and images in Kampala, Uganda.
UNREDACTED CITY got a full feature in the local newspaper Brunswick Voice.
UNREDACTED CITY is an exploration of the overlooked writing cultures of city surfaces. An exhibition featuring street poster designs of thousands of words from Sydney Road Brunswick. Presented by BA Projects at Sorse Gallery in Naarm/ Melbourne, 25 Oct - 3 Nov 2024.
SABINA ANDRON 