Recent Activity

Journal articles, books and book chapters.

[forthcoming 2026] Guest Editor of AHRA 2023 conference special issue Situated Imaginaries of Care in Architecture and Culture Journal (incl. peer-reviewed article)

[forthcoming 2026] Guest Editor of AHRA 2023 conference book Situated Ecologies of Care in Routledge ‘Critiques’ book series

[forthcoming 2025] ‘An Archaeology of the Affective Commons: Summoning the Border in Motion’ Invited contribution to In Detail An Archaeology of the Commons in UOU scientific journal #10.

Zambelli, Alessandro. “Country as Commons.” In Real Estate Agency: Land, Housing and Finance in Urban and Planning History: Book of Abstracts. Urban History Planning History Conference, University of Sydney, July 2024.

Rodgers, Christopher, Rachel Hammersley, Alessandro Zambelli, Emma Cheatle, John Wedgwood Clarke, Sarah Collins, Olivia Dee, and Siobhan O’Neill. English Urban Commons: The Past, Present and Future of Green Spaces. London: Routledge, 2024.

Delsante, Ioanni, and Alessandro Zambelli. “Architectural Agency and the Commons.” The Journal of Architecture 28, no. 1 (2023): 1-6.

Zambelli, Alessandro. “‘Period Property in Sought-after Area’: 2,500 Years of Digging and Building at St George’s Hill.” The Journal of Architecture 28, no. 1 (2023): 7-30.

Zambelli, Alessandro. Scandalous Space: Between Architecture and Archaeology. Baunach: AADR Spurbuchverlag, 2019.

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Conferences / Workshops / Exhibitions

‘In-Commons’ lead. A jointly funded ABP University of Melbourne / Bartlett UCL: commons and creative practice collaboration framework. Events:

  • Writing the Commons – Symposium [in planning] Feb. 2026, ABP University of Melbourne
  • Festival of the Commons in Architectural Writing June 2025, The Bartlett UCL
  • Site-Writing-In-Commons, online March 2025, The Bartlett UCL
  • Fieldworks: In-Common-Reading Installation 10 Feb–13 Mar 2025 The Bartlett UCL at The Building Centre London

Suess, Eleanor, and Alessandro Zambelli. “Beating the Bounds of Melbourne Town Common [Panels and Film].” In Repair Stories [Exhibition], edited by Virginia Mannering, Kyla McFarlane, Nina Tory-Henderson, Hélène Frichot and Dylan Newell. Melbourne: Melbourne Design Week, 2025

Leading the Portsmouth School of Architecture’s successful bid and preparations for its hosting of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) Annual International Conference 2023.

Archaeological architectures Architectural archaeologies, a forthcoming session organised with Lesley McFadyen of Birkbeck for the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) Conference at the Institute of Archaeology. December 2019

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The 19th Annual International AHRA Conference. Building Ground for Climate Collectivism: Architecture After the Anthropocene. Invited to be a panel member: Commoning agencies – in between climate action and day by day struggles. Pratt School of Architecture, New York (online).November 2022

SoAD Spring Research Talks Lecture Series, invited to deliver a paper: ‘How to Build an Architectural Commons’ University of Brighton. January 2021

The City as a Commons Symposium, Invited to deliver a paper: ‘Wastes and Strays: places for paying attention’ University of Pavia. September 2019

The Part Versus the Whole, in collaboration with Ben Judd as Part of New Perspectives series of exhibitions; ‘Metropolitan Salem, Liuerpul’ Victoria Gallery and Museum, Liverpool. June-August 2018