Places for Paying Attention

At the beginning of this month I presented a paper at the City as a Commons conference at the University of … More

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 … More

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 … More

Sites of Encounter

Currently running in the School of Architecture and Design at the University of Brighton is this exhibition (poster above) of … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

Tracing the Commons

As part of the Radical Futures Housing Forum at the University of Brighton my colleagues Tilo Amhoff and Luis Diaz … More

The Guilds of Venice

Yesterday Nana and I introduced our design studio at the Kingston School of Art Department of Architecture and Landscape. We … More