As part of the Radical Futures Housing Forum at the University of Brighton my colleagues Tilo Amhoff and Luis Diaz … More
Category: Commons
Wastes and Strays: The Past, Present and Future of English Urban Commons
Next January I begin a new 3-year, AHRC-funded, project investigating aspects of common or common-like spaces within or adjacent to … More
Drawing Critical Typologies and Undisciplined Commons
I’ve been thinking of ways of drawing together my old core interests in interdisciplinary modes of practice – specifically drawing … More
Pinewood, Mole, Sylvan, Old Oak, Shamwari…
This is really a development of this post from August last year. It described a paper I had presented at … More
Tangible and Intangible Commons
On June 13th 10 speakers, 5 invited audience members (as well as an actual audience), 2 student coordinators and I … More
Re-Commoning Valley Gardens
In recent months the exigencies of being a researcher have taken me away from my ‘normal’ interests in architecture / … More
‘Period Property in Sought-after Area’: 2,500 years of digging at St. George’s Hill.
In 2011 on a suburban plot in Surrey, a newly built house, Ravenridge, was put on sale for £14,750,000…