Malcolm F Miles

Professor Malcolm F Miles

Job title: Professor, School of Architecture, Design and Environment (Faculty of Arts)
Address: Room 105, 5 Portland Villas, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
Email: M.F.Miles@plymouth.ac.uk

Role

My key role is to carry out post-doctoral, interdisciplinary research in a field triangulated by critical theory, contemporary visual culture and urbanism. I chair the Culture-Theory-Space research group, mentor new research staff, supervise PhD researchers, and contribute strategically to the development of the research environment in Architecture. My most recent book is Herbert Marcuse: An Aesthetics of Liberation (Pluto Press December 2011). The next will be Eco Aesthetics [I B Tauris, summer 2013]

Qualifications & background

PhD, Architecture, Oxford Brookes University, Ernst Bloch and cases of engaged contemporary art (2001).
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Chelsea School of Art (1971)

Roles on external bodies

Teaching interests

At doctoral level:

critical theory and contemporary culture; critical urbanism; critical theory and utopianism.

Staff serving as external examiners

External examing, research degrees:

to date, external examiner for 16 PhDs; internal for 3..

External examining, taught courses:
MA in the Centre for Cultural Policy, Warwick (2009-2013)

MA European Cultural Planning, de Montfort (1999-2004)

BA Fine and Applied Arts & Design, Portsmouth (2003-2008)

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)
6. Janey Hunt, 2011 Eco-Renovation, the value-action gap,

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

Conferences organised
8th International Conference, Utopian Studies Society, Plymouth July,2007

Additional information
lives as a recluse in Totnes

Links
www.malcolmmiles.org.uk
www.criticalspaces.org.uk