THE RIGHT TO THE SURFACE IS THE RIGHT TO THE CITY
Are you a researcher or practitioner in the public or private sector whose work engages with urban surfaces? We are inviting expressions of interest to attend our 1.5-day workshop in Melbourne, Australia, on 3-4 December 2025.
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’.
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.
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!
UNREDACTED CITY got a full feature in the local newspaper Brunswick Voice.
What does our reaction to graffiti say about us, and what does it say about the city itself? Listen to my conversation with Jonathan Green on the ABC programme "Blueprint for Living" - out now on ABC Listen (18 mins).
SABINA ANDRON 