Join us to hear about municipal graffiti removal strategies as a form of urban art in the Philippines, and aesthetic practices inspired by buff in Melbourne.
Urban Visual Dialogues 4: Urban art and vandalism in Marikina and Melbourne
My first keynote!
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.
Urban Surfaces Research Workshop in Nicosia, Cyprus: Making and Visualising Surfaces in the City
We hosted our second in-person Urban Surfaces Research Workshop in sunny Nicosia, Cyprus: “Making and visualising surfaces in the city” ☀️
Call for participants: Urban Surfaces Research Network online workshops
We are inviting expressions of interest to attend our online workshops in April, September, and November.
Call for participants: Urban Surfaces Research Network in-person workshops
We are inviting expressions of interest to attend our two-day workshops in Nicosia, Cyprus and Uppsala, Sweden.
Urban surfaces workshop in Melbourne: graffiti, posters, and visual governance in the city
We delivered the first of three Urban Surfaces Research Network workshops in Melbourne with 18 brilliant participants.
University of Melbourne poster campaign
A photo of me leading a walking tour has recently been featured in University of Melbourne's poster campaign for the Being Human Festival - which is all very meta, given that street posters have been one of my main research subjects in the past few years.
Urban Visual Dialogues 2: On Values and Assets of City Surfaces
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.
“Power, paper, and profit: street posters and the making of urban visual culture” is out now open access in Space & Culture
Melbourne is full of framed bill posters and is arguably the best poster city in the world. How do these street posters work, how are they regulated? And what contributions do they make to the visual character of the city, alongside graffiti and other signage?
SABINA ANDRON 