Events    

   

Graffiti, Posters, and Visual Governance in the City 3-4 December 2025, University of Melbourne, Australia

The first in-person workshop funded by the Urban Studies Foundation Seminar Series Award “Walls speak. Are you listening? A research agenda for urban surfaces”, hosted by Sabina Andron at the University of Melbourne.  

Participants:

• Adrian Tanner, graffiti removal officer, Melbourne inner city council 
  
• Alison Barnes, senior lecturer in design and place, Western Sydney University 
  
• Asees Prab, design practitioner, RMIT University 
  
• Caroline Kyi, specialist wall painting conservator, University of Melbourne 
  
• Cecilia Brazioli, PhD candidate in sociology, University of Milan 
  
• Chris Parkinson, artist and lecturer, University of Melbourne and Yarra City Council 
  
• Enzo Lara Hamilton, artist and researcher, University of Melbourne 
• Kostas Avramidis, Assistant Professor in architecture, University of Cyprus 
  
• Kurt Iveson, Professor of urban geography, University of Sydney 
  
• Laura Szyman, design-research practitioner, RMIT University 
  
• Lucy Irvine, artist and researcher, Australian National University 
  
• Maria Noriega, urban planner, University of Melbourne 
  
• Michael Stonham, lecturer in architecture and graffiti writer, University of New South Wales 
  
• Myra Abubakar, researcher in visual governance in Southeast Asia, Australian National University 
  
• Nataly Arevalo, community safety practitioner, Darebin City Council 
  
• Nazanin Moghaddam, independent muralist 
  
• Sabina Andron, Research Fellow in cities and urbanism, University of Melbourne 
  
• Tom Ward, PhD candidate in human geography, Uppsala University 
  
• Young-Tack Oh, spatial practitioner, Archipleasure 
  
  

Urban Surfaces Research Network International Workshop 6 18 November 2025, online 

Convenors:

•  Sabina Andron (AU), 
  
• Konstantinos Avramidis (CY), 
  
• Tom Ward (SE) 
  
  

Prompts:

1. Define: How do you define urban surfaces in your field or practice?
   
2. Intervene: If you could change one thing about how urban surfaces are designed, valued, maintained, or governed—what would it be?
   
3. Challenge: What is a common misconception about urban surfaces that frustrates or limits your work?
   
   

13 October 2025, online 

Convenors:

•  Sabina Andron (AU), 
  
• Konstantinos Avramidis (CY), 
  
• Tom Ward (SE) 
  
  

Prompts:

1. Define: How do you define urban surfaces in your field or practice?
   
2. Intervene: If you could change one thing about how urban surfaces are designed, valued, maintained, or governed—what would it be?
   
3. Challenge: What is a common misconception about urban surfaces that frustrates or limits your work?
   

25 September 2025, online   

Convenors:

•  Sabina Andron (AU), 
  
• Konstantinos Avramidis (CY), 
  
• Tom Ward (SE) 
  
  

Prompts:

1. Define: How do you define urban surfaces in your field or practice?
   
2. Intervene: If you could change one thing about how urban surfaces are designed, valued, maintained, or governed—what would it be?
   
3. Challenge: What is a common misconception about urban surfaces that frustrates or limits your work?
   
   

2 May 2025, Society of Architectural Historians annual conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA