Bath School of Design, at the University of Bath Spa, is located in the former Herman Miller Factory, an iconic…

Over the last summer I have been part of a reading group dedicated to Anna Tsing’s (2015) Mushroom at the…

The Buddhist Studies Institute at the University of Copenhagen assembled scholars from a range of disciplines to discuss the relationship…

In this workshop I worked with Manchester Architecture school’s 1st year in creating an exploded prototype of a building corner.…

I spent a day with the NOW atelier at the Liverpool Architecture school. These 3rd year students are designing Material…

University of Sheffield’s MAUD (Masters in Architecture and Urban design) students have been working with local community partners to develop…

Similarly to last year, I travelled to Cambridge to support the first year MArch students in protoype making. This year’s…

Prior to leaving TP Bennett to focus on my PhD in 2024, I worked on Newton Heath / Oldham Road…

In 2023 I was part of the TP Bennett team working on an apart hotel proposal on Fieldgate Street –…

Similarly to Ro Robertson’s sculpture Stone (Butch), dedicated to complex non-binary identity, the park accommodating Robertson’s sculpture, and many other…

In early December I spent a day driving game through a private wood in south Yorkshire. Prior to going I…

Over the course of 2023 I worked on Emilia’s 4th restaurant, not far from where tourists photograph a wax Taylor…

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…