At the beginning of this month I presented a paper at the City as a Commons conference at the University of…
The Memory, Playfulness and Imaginary of English Urban Commons
Last month I brought together representatives from each of the four urban commons central to the AHRC-funded project on which…
Archaeological architectures Architectural archaeologies
It is a great privilege and a pleasure to be co-running a session with archaeologist Lesley McFadyen at his year’s…
Sites of Encounter
Currently running in the School of Architecture and Design at the University of Brighton is this exhibition (poster above) of…
A Chronotopic Chart
Main image: Excerpts from final, 4.5m long, fold-out Chronotopic Chart. At one point during the research for my PhD, overwhelmed…
Undisciplined Drawing in Archaeology and Architecture
In 2013 I wrote a paper called The Undisciplined Drawing.[1] It developed some thoughts and some practice which became a…
Architecture and Anthropology
My article, Occlusions of the Operational Sequence: A Coincidental Conversation between Robert Matthew and André Leroi-Gourhan in Six Diagrams which I’ve already…
Tracing the Commons
As part of the Radical Futures Housing Forum at the University of Brighton my colleagues Tilo Amhoff and Luis Diaz…
The Guilds of Venice
Yesterday Nana and I introduced our design studio at the Kingston School of Art Department of Architecture and Landscape. We…
