Role
my key role is to carry out post-doctoral research between art, architecture and critical theory; I supervise doctoral researchers, convene the Culture-Theory-Space research group, contribute to research methods workshops in the Faculty of Arts, and am a member of the University Academic Board and School of Architecture Research Committee. My next book is Herbert Marcuse: An Aesthetics of Liberation (Pluto Press 2011-12).
Qualifications & background
Doctorate (School of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University) on aspects of critical theory and contemporary visual culture.
Previous publications include Art, Space & the City (Routledge 1997, The Uses of Decoration: essays in the architectural everyday (Wiley 2000), and Urban Avant-Gardes - art, architecture and change (Routledge, 2004).
Roles on external bodies
Teaching interests
At post-graduate level:
critical theory and contemporary culture.
critical theory and utopianism.
Staff serving as external examiners
External examing, research degrees:
UCL (Bartlett); UCL (Geography); Leeds (Art History); Westminster (Urban Design; Landscape Design); Royal College of Art (Photography); University of the West of England (Art) Manchester Metropolitan University (Sociology).
External examining, taught courses:
MA Cultural Industries, Warwick (20009-10)
MA European Cultural Planning, de Montfort (1999-2004)
BA Fine and Applied Arts & Design, Portsmouth (2003-8)
previously:
MA Art in Society, University of Gloucestershire (1999-2003)
MA Art & Design, Kingston (1993-8)
BA Fine Art (Art History), Middlesex (1989-93)
Research interests
1. Critical Theory (the Frankfurt School) in relation to contemporary cultural production for radical social; change.
2. Utopian Studies - contemporary alternative socio-cultural formation;
3. Critical Spaces - interfaces and interactions between theory and practice in contemporary cultures and higher education.
Research degrees awarded to supervised students
1. Phillip Hawkins, Lefebvre and Lived Time, PhD, 2006
2. Tim Collins, Art, Landscape and Agency, PhD, 2006
3. Joasia Krysa, Digital Curating, 2008
4. Sarah Bennett, Wall-Wounds: art practice and traces of use, 2010
5. Nicola Kirkham, J18, 2010 (University of the Arts)
Grants & contracts
AHRB Small Grant, 2001: research to publication Urban Avant-Gardes (Routledge, 2004);
AHRB Small Grant, 2003, research to publication The Built and Social Architectures of Alternative Settlement (Routledge, 2006/7). AHRB Small Grant, 2005, research to publication Cities and Cultures (Routledge, 2006).
AHRC Workshop - Critical Spaces: art and agency for social change
Creative practice & artistic projects
Theory is a creative practice.
Publications
a) authored books
Urban Utopias: the built and social architectures of alternative settlements, (London, Routledge, forthcoming 2008)
Cities & Cultures (London, Routledge, 2007)
Urban Avant-Gardes: art, architecture & change, (London, Routledge, 2004);
The Uses of Decoration: Essays in the Architectural Everyday (Chichester, Wiley, 2000);
Art, Space & the City (London, Routledge, 1997);
[Korean edition, Seoul, Hakgojae, 2000; Chinese edition, Taiwan, Chuanshing, 2000); Spanish translation (1 chapter) in Interferences: context local, Documents, Barcelona, Certamen d’art contemporani, 2002 pp46-61]
b) co-authored book
The Consuming City, co-authored with Miles, S. Basingstoke, Palgrave 2004.
c) edited book
New Practices, New Pedagogies, ed., London, Routledge, 2005
d) major co-edited books
Urban Futures (with. Hall, T. London, Routledge, 2003);
The City Cultures Reader (with, Hall, T and Borden, I. London, Routledge, 2nd ed 2003)
e) other co-edited books
Art and Theory post-Socialism (with Mel Jordan, Bristol, Intellect Books, 2008)
Interventions (with T Hall, Bristol, Intellect Books, 2005)
Cultures & Settlements (with N Kirkham, Bristol, Intellect Books, 2003)
f) chapters and catalogue essays
'Trajectories and the Time of Everryday Life', in KoCA Inn (ed. Daniela Brasil, Weimar, Kiosk Contemporary Art, 2010) pp. 316-325
'Public Art and Citizenship: From public spaces to public spheres', in Futurology, eds. Hewitt, A. and Jordan, M. Walsall, The New Art Gallery, 2010, pp. 41-45
'Art goes AWOL', in Spaces of Vernacular Creativity: Rethinking the cultural economy, eds Edensor, T., Leslie, D., Millington, S. and Rantsi, N.M., London, Routledge, 2009, pp. 46-60
'Parks, Utopias, Art', (Avant-Garden, Busan Biennale, Korea, 2008, catalogue, pp.240-246 [text in English])
'Aesthetics in a Time of Emergency', (Art Incorporated: The Role of Art in Urban Development, ed. Nielsen, S. Kunstmuseet Koge Skitsesamlung, Koge, Denmark, 2008) pp. 32-45 [catalogue essay]
'Strategies for the Convivial City: A New Agenda for Education for the Built Environment,' (Art, Community and Education: Educational Perspectives, ed. Couuts G. and Jokela, T., Bristol, Intellect Books, 2008) pp. 51-61 [previously published in International Journal of Art & DEsign Education, vol 17, 1, pp. 17-25]
'The Culture Industries: Symbolic Economies and Critical Practices', (The State and the Arts: Articulating power and subversion, ed. Kapferer, J., Oxford, Berghahn, 2008), pp. 98-112
'Critical Spaces: Monuments and Changes', (The Practice of Public Art, ed. Cartiere C and Willis S, New York, Routledge, 2008) pp. 66-90
'Planning and Conflict' (The Sage Companion to the City, ed. Hall T, Hubbard P and Short JR, London, Sage, 2008) pp. 316-333
'Appropriating the ex Cold War' / 'Savinatis buvusi Saltaji kara' (Menas Ir Politika: Rytu Europs Atvejai (Art and Politics: Case studies from Eastern Europe), ed. Dovydaityte, L, Kaunas (LIT), Vytautus Magnus University Press, 2008) pp. 168-174
'Una Olympiade cultural: el Forum Universal de las Culturas 2004', (La Metaciudad: Barcelona, ed. Degen, M and Garcia M, Barcelona, Anthropos, 2008) pp. 65-82
‘Displaced Monuments and Public Spheres’, (Luzboa: inventada pela luz, ed. Caiero, M., Lisbon, VIA-Verlag and Extra]muros[, 2007) pp. 276-279 [parallel English/Portuguese text]
‘Garden Cities and City Gardens’, (Small Cities: Urban Experience Beyond the Metropolitan, ed., Bell, D and Jayne, M., 2006, London, Routledge, pp.135-150)
‘No violence for Posters’, (Speaking & Listening vol. 5, ed. Kivland, S., Josep-h-Lester, J., and Cocker, E., Sheffield, Site Gallery, 2006) pp.139-148
‘Postmodernism and the Art Curriculum: A New subjectivity’, in Art education in a Postmodern World, (ed. Hardy, T., Bristol, Intellect Books, 2006) pp.91-98 [first published, Journal of Art & Design Education, vol. 18, pp27-32, 1999
‘A Green aesthetic: after Kant the deluge’, in Groundworks – environmemtal collaboration in contemporary art, (ed. G Kester, Pittsburgh (PA), Carnegie Mellon University, 2005), pp68-79
‘Aesthetics and Engagement – interested interventions’, in Ecological Aesthetics: Art in Environmental Design: Theory and Practice, (H Strelow, Berlin, Birkhauser, 2004) pp202-207 [parallel English and German editions]
‘Drawn and Quartered: El Raval and the Hausmannization of Barcelona’, in City of Quarters: urban villages in the contemporary city, (D Bell and M Jayne, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2004) pp37-55
‘Un tempo de desassossego’ in Luzboa: A Arte da Luz em Lisboa (M Caeiro, Lisbon, Extra]muros[, 2004) pp.41-50 [in Portuguese only]
‘Consuming Culture: Affluence and Social Space in the New Barcelona’, in The European City in Transition vol. 1 (F Eckard and D Hassenpflug, Weimar, Bauhaus University, 2003) pp.229-238
‘Seeing Through Place: Local Approaches to Global Problems’, in Recoveries and Reclamations (J Rugg and D Hinchcliffe, Bristol, Intellect Books, 2002) pp.77-105 [with photo-essay on Skinningrove, Cleveland]
‘Wish You Were Here’, in Urban Visions: Experiencing and Envisioning the City (S Spier, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2002) pp. 122-146
‘Cafe-Extra: Culture, Representation and the Everyday’ in Beyond the Museum: Art, Institutions, People (I Cole and N Stanley, Oxford, Museum of Modern Art, 2000), pp30-37
‘Depos do domino publico: espacos de epresentacao, transiscao e pluralidade’, Espaco Publico e a Interdisciplinaridade (P Landau and A Remisar, Lisbon, Centro Portugues de design, 2000), pp. 98-105 [parallel Portuguese and Spanish text]
‘Art in Public Spaces’ in Design Professionals and the Built Environment (P Knox, Chichester, Wiley, 2000);
‘Things, selves and others’ in Collectors’ Items (K Salway, London,. Wilderness Editions, 2000) n.p.
‘Living Lightly on the Earth’ in Non-Plan: essays on freedom, participation and change in modern architecture and urbanism, (J Hughes and J Sadler, London, Heinemann, 2000).
‘A Game of Appearances – public art and urban development’, in The Entrepreneurial City (T Hall and P Hubbard, Chichester, Wiley, 1998);
‘Urban Futures – Emancipation, Aesthetics and the Public Interest’, in Obscure Objects of Desire: Reviewing the Crafts in the Twentieth Century (T Harrad, London, Crafts Council, 1997) pp.186-193 [published conference papers]
‘Does Art Heal? An Evaluative Approach to Art in the Health Service’, in The Arts in Health Care (C Kaye and T Blee, London, Jessica Kingsley, 1997) pp. 241-249
‘The Tree of Learning: A Culture for Patient-Centred Care’, in The Arts in Health Care (C Kaye and T Blee, London, Jessica Kingsley, 1997) pp. 267-275
g) journals
'Aesthetics in a Time of Emergency', Third Text, 23, pp 421-434, July 2009
'Incidental Liberation: Revolution After the Period of Revolutions', Journal for Cultural research vol 13 1 pp 53-68 2009
‘The Culture Industries: Symbolic Economies and Critical Practices’, Social Analysis, vol 51, 1, pp.13-27, 2007
‘Interrutping the Public Realm: performative excursions’, Research in Drama Education, vol.12, #1, pp.15-26, Feb. 2007
‘Commentary’ [comment on thematic issue on art and geography], Social & Cultural Geography vol 7, # 6, pp987-994, Dec 2006
‘Society as a work of art?’ Zeitschrift fur kritische Theorie, 22/23, pp.223-240, 2006
‘Utopias of Mud? Hassan Fathy and Alternative Modernisms’, Space & Culture, vol. 9 #2, pp.115-139, 2006
‘Interruptions: Testing the Rhetoric of Culturally Led Urban Development’, Urban Studies, vol. 42, 5/6 pp. 889-912, 2005
‘Legibility and Liveability – a critique’, Perspectivas Urbanas, 5, pp7-20, 2002 [in English, published Barcelona]
‘Ghostly Pasts, Spectral Futures’, Space & Culture, 11/12, pp106-122, 2002
‘Viral Art’, Journal of Visual Art Practice, vol 1 #2, pp71-79, 2002
‘Breaking the Circles of Uncertainty’, Journal of Visual Art Practice, vol. 2, 1, pp. 18-25, 2002
‘Picking Up Stones: Design Research and Urban Settlement’, Design Issues, vol 17, 2, 2002
‘Sociology and Change – Towards a post-Frankfurt School?’, Disciplines, Fields and Change in Art Education, vol. 3, pp.185-198, 2001
‘Selling Orchids: The Political Economy of Art in Urban Development’, European Journal of Arts Education, vol. 2, 3, pp.37-44
‘After the Public Realm – spaces of representation, transition and plurality’, International Journal of Art & Design Education, vol. 19, 3, pp.253-261, 2000
‘Post-Modernism in the Curriculum – A New Subjectivity’, International Journal of Art & Design Education, vol. 18, 1, pp. 27-32, 1999
‘Strategies for the Convivial City: A New Agenda for Education and the Built Environment’, Journal of Art & Design Education vol. 17, 2, pp.17-26, 1998
‘Another Hero?’ Paralllax, 5, pp125-135, 1997
h) non-refereed journals
‘Artists as Agents for Social Change’, Engage, 15, pp58-60 [conference review]
‘@ Bristol’, Public Art Journal, vol 1, 4, p.55, 2000
‘Visions of Utopia’, Public Art Journal, vol. 1, 1, pp.50-51, 1999
Conferences organised
8th International Conference, Utopian Studies Society, Plymouth July,2007
