Performance as a Mode of Spatial Inquiry into Embodied Urban Experience
A practice-based research project exploring how embodied urban experience can be recorded, translated and re-performed through movement and notation. It examines what is retained, transformed or newly produced as experience moves between the city, spatial notation and bodily performance.
Rethinking Parklets as Social Infrastructure through the Socio-Temporal Understanding of Everyday Urban Life
This research examines how community parklets become socially embedded infrastructures through everyday use, participation and long-term stewardship. Drawing on site surveys, socio-temporal observation and interviews in Hackney, it develops a participatory toolkit and governance framework for supporting parklets beyond their initial installation.
Institutionalising ‘People’s Plans’ and Bridging the Communicative Gap in Urban Planning
This essay examines how community participation can move beyond consultation towards greater resident influence in urban planning. It considers the institutional recognition of community-led ‘People’s Plans’ and explores performance as a means of translating between residents’ lived experience and the technical language of planning.
A critical review examining how sociability has been conceptualised in tactical urbanism, with particular attention to the spatial, social, political, and temporal conditions through which sociability is produced and sustained.