The workshop started with my talk ‘Model as a Vehicle for Design’. In the presentation I discussed the role of…

On 14.11.23 I ran a workshop for nine A-Level art pupils. During the exercise the pupils were intuitively making conceptual…

Comics are used by ethnographers more and more widely. Open and honest subjectivity of a comic strip helps to mitigate…

During a recent garden party in Colchester, Essex, the invitees were asked to contribute to a collective painting. At the…

This is a short and sporadic critique of the Neoliberal concept of free choice from someone who grew up in…

Nicosia is the capital of Cyprus, established thousands of years ago. The historic city is a fortification, shaped as a…

Last Friday I presented at the academic conference Sosiologipäivät hosted by the University of Tampere in Finland. I took part…

In 2021 – 2022 I was part of the TP Bennett team working on a 504-room student accommodation block in…

Architect Jim Ross and myself ran two prototype-making sessions for a group of MAUD and MArch masters students at the…

David McEwen from Unit38 invited me to help Westminster University’s 2nd year architecture students develop their ideas. All of the…

Today I gave a presentation to a group of architects, designers and sustainability specialists at TP Bennett. This was part…

Last week I revisited the Tees Valley Energy-from-Waste plant near Middlesbrough. The main aim of the visit was to attempt…

Whilst studying architecture I have prized the importance of a model as a vehicle for design. My particular interest has…

In mid-July I met with a Sheffield-based architect, specialised in Energy-from-Waste facilities. Below are some key points in relation to…

On the 30th June I attended (Re)making infrastructures workshop, organised by the Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester. The event…

Today my partner and I travelled across rural Armenia to Tatev monastery in the south east. On the way we…

During some of my placement period at KTH Stockholm I stayed at 43 Drottning Kristinas väg, which is a notable…

Sweden is one of Europe’s leading countries for producing biochar from organic waste. The production is growing fast, becoming more…

A book chapter I have been writing in collaboration with Dr Deljana Iossifova from the University of Manchester has now…

Murphy’s and Ratje’s history of the waste incinerator, starts with late 19c and early 20c models. At the time, un-sorted…

As the world was coming out of Covid and my part time PhD was commencing, I was part of the…

At the end of autumn 2021 I visited the Re-use hub to visit the informal conference LARAC 2021. The re-use…

To me, model-making is a phenomenological process of discovering of how different material work and what they want to become.…

In November 2021 I went to visit Longley Lane MRF, the site for sorting Greater Manchester’s recyclable waste. Langley Lane,…

In October 2021 I commenced on a PhD at the University of Manchester. The topic of the PhD is on…

Last Saturday I attended one of a series of conferences on activism held at the CIVA architectural institution in Brussels.…

On Tuesday the 1st June I was invited to chair an event forming part of the INFRA+ series, organised by…

Yesterday I took part in the reviews of the final year briefs for the master students at the London School…

Making metal has been one of the central activities of humankind for thousands of years. What started off as small…

Untouched by railways and industry, secluded and picturesque Tarusa has inspired many generations of poets and artists. During all seasons,…

Living in the Arctic Tundra Around 70km to the north from Murmansk any trees disappear and one is faced with…

Over the past week I visited Teriberka and Murmansk, positioned near to the Arctic Ocean over 300 km north of…