THE RIGHT TO THE SURFACE IS THE RIGHT TO THE CITY
We are resuming our Urban Visual Dialogues event series with two presentations by my collaborators-friends-visiting PhDs, Tom Ward and Cecilia Brazioli. Cecilia and Tom are in Melbourne for 3 months and this is their main public-facing seminar.
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.
Graffiti removal is the practice of removing, erasing or obliterating unauthorised displays from publicly visible urban surfaces.
I have been selected as one of the ABC TOP 5 Humanities residents for 2024!
"Urban surfaces, graffiti, and the right to the city" European book launches: Paris 7 Feb, Milan 8 Feb
Urban surfaces, graffiti, and the right to the city had its London launch on 29 January 2024 at the Bartlett School of Architecture.
Images like this are like a pluri-vocal whisper reminding me of the energy of urban togetherness, in all its messy, smelly, disorderly forms. One of my Leake Street photographs has been featured on the cover of the Visual Studies journal (Vol 36, Issue 1, 2021). You can see the cover on their website and read …
“Power, Paint and Public Walls” was my six-day endeavour with Sprya Sharma and 25 students from CEPT University in Ahmedabad, India. Taught online under an intensive "winter school" format, the course aimed to develop a multidisciplinary reading of contemporary cities by examining walls, surfaces, graffiti, street art, advertising and other types of wall writing. The …
I will be teaching a week-long winter course at CEPT University in Ahmedabad, India (well, online) with my colleague Sprya Sharma. Sprya is an architect who has been researching wall drawings in her region (particularly the fascinating Madhubani paintings), and the two of us work with similar wall-reading tools, which we are going to bring …
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SABINA ANDRON 