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New article published in Antipode
My new article has been published in Antipode. It is about the wider economic reasons and consequences of…
Respectful disposal: exhibition
The proposed dates for the exhibition are 29 June – 12 July, however the proposed venue is still…
Breeding sheep in Yorkshire
Yesterday I got a chance to feed hay to sheep in their lambing period. A friend helping a…
Hydropolis workshop in Nanjing, China
The making workshop formed part of Hydropolis – an interdisciplinary spring school, where visiting researchers and professionals from…
Edgelands workshop at Bath Spa
In early March 2026 I worked with third year undergraduate students at Bath Spa. Their final project, Edgelands,…
Non-Standard habitats at the MSA
The fourth year students (first year masters) at Manchester Architecture School are working on an adaptive and sustainable…
Waste model at the Leeds Architecture School
The students are designing a structure for an existing scout campsite in Morley, South West of Leeds, belonging…
Making workshop at Bradfield
In November 2025, I worked with Lower Sixth Form Art pupils at Bradfield College. During the first term…
Design-Build reviews at Dalhousie
This Monday I was invited to join the online reviews for a group of architecture students at Dalhousie…
Talk at Virginia Tech
On 5 December 2025 I gave a talk for the STS department at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA. The…
Lecture on Infrastructure and Biopolitics
As part of my TA work with Ben Blackwell on the Architecture of Authority course for 3rd year…
Pavilion concept making at Bath Spa
In early November 2025, I worked with the first year cohort at Bath Spa University – a group…
Necrowaste paper published
My first PhD article is out. Using drawings, I discuss how waste incineration practices and technologies shape respect…
Sign up for drawing your research workshop (Manchester)
Zoe Cox (with whom we run biweekly drawing sessions) will be running two research drawing workshops in the…
Presentation at the DDD conference
Last Wededay (27.08.25) I presented my phd at the biannual conference on Death, Dying and Disposal in Utrecht. …
Emilia’s on Victoria Street
Emilia’s fifth restaurant was underway in 2025. As with previous projects, I assisted the team on resolving the…
Draw your research
Together with Zoe Cox (who recently completed her PhD at the MMU) we started to run regular drawing…
3 Minute PhD presentation
At the Early Career Researchers’ Summer school organised by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change I delivered a…
Detroit vs Manchester and other impressions from America
Some of the Eurocentric stereotype-based perspectives on life in the United States have proven to be simplistic, based…
Craft museum workshop at Bath Spa
1st year students at Bath Spa are designing a small museum dedicated to a craft. Willow weaving, print making,…
‘Connection’ workshop at Bath Spa
The 3rd year undergraduate students at Bath Spa are working on their final project ‘Connection’, on a series…
Workshop with the CPU at Manchester
The 3rd year students at the CPU atelier at the MSA are continuing with projects primarily influenced by…
Research Methods Exhibition Opening
During the autumn semester 2024 I worked as a teaching assistant on the Architecture and Ethnography class with…
Materialising a pavilion concept at Bath Spa
First year architecture students at Bath Spa have been given a new brief to design a pavilion for…
Art workshop at Bradfield College
Similarly to last year I worked with Lower Sixth Form fine art pupils in a workshop dedicated to…
Giving a Graphic anthropology lecture
As part of the Research Methods Workshops course for the Architecture and Landscape students at the University of…
Urban model prototyping at Sheffield
Similarly to my last workshop at Sheffield I worked with a group of students on the Master in…
Prototype making at Bath Spa
Bath School of Design, at the University of Bath Spa, is located in the former Herman Miller Factory,…
Sustainable Paths within Capitalist Ruins
Over the last summer I have been part of a reading group dedicated to Anna Tsing’s (2015) Mushroom…
Death x Design x Culture Conference
Scholars, artists, coffin craftsmen, designers, museum managers and euthanasia specialists assembled in Falmouth to problematise the creative practices…
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