Join us for the book launch of Lachlan Macdowall’s BLOCK TOWN, a visual ethnography of security architecture in Melbourne.
Urban Visual Dialogues 5: BLOCK TOWN by Lachlan MacDowall book launch
Urban Surfaces Research Network workshop in Uppsala, Sweden: Art, Advertising, and Methods of Surfacing the City
That's a wrap for our seminar series funded by the Urban Studies Foundation, with "Art, advertising, and methods of surfacing the city" hosted by Tom Ward at Uppsala University.
COME WRITE HERE residency at MPavilion Parkville
Our public space mark-making project returned to MPavilion this September. After a successful iteration with SURFACITY in 2025, Chris Parkinson and I were invited to bring back our fencing, boards and painting tools to University Square, for a week of artist residencies, workshops, and collaborative mark-making.
Urban Visual Dialogues 4: Urban art and vandalism in Marikina and Melbourne
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.
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.
