ABOUT
       
     
Invited essay for Routledge Handbook of Trauma Informed Placemaking (available for pre-order)
       
     
Catalog essay for Hrair Sarkissian, Deutsche Börse Foundation Photography Prize 2024
       
     
NEW research and evaluation article for one of the UK's leading public art organisations
       
     
EXPERTISE
       
     
PROJECTS & PUBLIC SPEAKING
       
     
Keynote Speaker to open Oslo World Music Festival at the Nobel Peace Center
       
     
Appointment as Associate Curator of new Project Space in Venice
       
     
News: Curation of Ukrainian films for Project Space Venezia Sept-Nov 2023
       
     
News:  Project Advisor for collaborative programme with the London Festival of Architecture
       
     
Invited Essay: The Good City
       
     
Cultural strategy for major redevelopment on London's Southbank
       
     
PUBLICATIONS
       
     
Can we design for Culture? Paradigms and Provocations
       
     
Invited essay for Routledge Handbook of Trauma Informed Placemaking (available for pre-order)
       
     
Invited essay for Routledge Handbook of Trauma Informed Placemaking (available for pre-order)

Placemaking, performance and infrastructures of belonging: the role of ritual healing and mass cultural gatherings in the wake of trauma” contributes to a wide-ranging series of essays from a global cohort of place leaders and communities on new approaches to placemaking from the perspective of trauma. More details here.

Catalog essay for Hrair Sarkissian, Deutsche Börse Foundation Photography Prize 2024
       
     
Catalog essay for Hrair Sarkissian, Deutsche Börse Foundation Photography Prize 2024

New essay, “On Making the Disappeared Reappear”, commissioned to accompany the exhibition currently at The Photographers’ Gallery London and catalog featuring Hrair Sarkissian and other nominees for the 2024 DBFP Prize. Read excerpts and order the catalog here.

NEW research and evaluation article for one of the UK's leading public art organisations
       
     
NEW research and evaluation article for one of the UK's leading public art organisations

Commissioned article on The Gallery.org.uk for The Artichoke Trust articulates the power of this thought-provoking, radically inclusive and barrier-breaking initiative in making the arts more democratic and fostering the creative citizenship at the heart of civic agency.

Keynote Speaker to open Oslo World Music Festival at the Nobel Peace Center
       
     
Keynote Speaker to open Oslo World Music Festival at the Nobel Peace Center
Appointment as Associate Curator of new Project Space in Venice
       
     
Appointment as Associate Curator of new Project Space in Venice

Glad to announce my involvement to develop and co-curate a new Project Space in the heart of Venice with colleague Jacek Ludwig Scarso as part of the Marta Czok Foundation.

Launched in conjunction with the 2023 Architecture Biennale and an official site for the 2024 Venice Art Biennale, Project Space Venezia brings works of the artist Marta Czok into dialogue with international artists, cultural organisations, researchers and thinkers.

News: Curation of Ukrainian films for Project Space Venezia Sept-Nov 2023
       
     
News: Curation of Ukrainian films for Project Space Venezia Sept-Nov 2023

Newly launched in our Project Space for the second part of an exhibition on The Rise and Fall of the Ideal City, a selection of films curated by Anna Marazuela Kim is a collaboration with Takflix, which partners with international organizations to showcase the best of Ukrainian cinema abroad.

Also featured are two recent films by Kyiv-based artists Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Khimei. Taken together, this selection highlights the richness of Ukrainian culture–from its priceless cultural heritage under threat to its cities and ways of life, including artistic, and is presented in solidarity with Ukraine, its cultural workers still in its cities and in exile.

News:  Project Advisor for collaborative programme with the London Festival of Architecture
       
     
News: Project Advisor for collaborative programme with the London Festival of Architecture

Winning bid for summer installation and activation by MA cohort, Public Art and Performative Practices, London Metropolitan University, sponsored by Aldgate Connect.

Invited Essay: The Good City
       
     
Invited Essay: The Good City

Contributing to expert commentary informing policy for the Local Government Association’s Annual Conference on The Future of Cities, 28-30 June 2022

Cultural strategy for major redevelopment on London's Southbank
       
     
Cultural strategy for major redevelopment on London's Southbank

Senior Researcher and Contributing Writer for the London Studios at 72 Upper Ground, a groundbreaking strategy for a creative ecosystem of innovation. Commissioned by Futurecity.

Can we design for Culture? Paradigms and Provocations
       
     
Can we design for Culture? Paradigms and Provocations

Invited journal article for special issue on Arts and City Strategy