Coming up
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Woven Landscapes, Connected Threads - Interlacing Culture, Community and Place in Sussex
Chair and Plenary
Sussex CoLab, University of Sussex
29 May 2025
Brighton & Hove
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The Sculpture x Policy Lab: Artists, Policymaking and Place
Panel member, as part of a major survey exhibition on influential artist-activist Barbara Steveni (1928 – 2020) curated by Gareth Bell Jones and Jo Melvin.
Modern Art Oxford
6 June 2025
Oxford
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Living Metrics: Building Evaluation Grounded in People and Place
Workshop lead, with Hospitable Environment. A Sussex Co-Lab project from University of Sussex.
The Creative Living Lab
8 July 2025
Newhaven
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5th Annual CivicLAB Conference: Connected Communities
Chair
26 June 2025
Previous Keynotes & Papers (selection - page updating)
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Call to Action: what a trauma-informed placemaking means in practice
Keynote
Healthy Happy Places, Health Innovation North East and Cumbria
March 2023
Online
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What Matters: cultural institutions and radical co-care
Presentation
The Capital Cultural Exchange: Arts and Health Forum: Cultural Institutions as Places for Wellbeing
Co-hosted with Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University
21 February 2023
Online
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ABC and D of ABC25: leading from outside of the centre
Keynote
ABC Culture Conference: The New Cultural Geography of Smaller Places
1 February 2023
Armagh
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Greater than the Sum of Parts: realising universities in Cultural Compacts
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Square peg, round hole?: Should social makers bother with institutions? And do institutions know what to do with social makers?
Keynote and In Conversation
Social Makers
22 July 2022
Plymouth
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Keynote
CivicLAB Symposium 2022: Designing for Civility and Cultural Impact
7 July 2022
Derby
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What’s at stake if you don’t do this? Culture and Community in Placemaking
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Museums Interrupted: Museums, Placemaking and Civil Engagement to advance equity in innovation and change
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Artists on the Frontline - Global Artists Response Fund Launch
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Healing Arts London
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The Relational Museum: the radical potential of museums as placemakers
Article
MUSEUM – the American Alliance of Museums journal
March – April 2022
Print / Online -members
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Creative Leadership Now
Contributor
The Culture Capital Exchange
2021
Print/Online
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Observatories for earthly education
Panel
Assembly for Permacircular Museums
2021
Online
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How Artists Work to Reimagine Cities
Panel, with Heidi Reitmaier and Jonathan Moscone, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Interior Design Show Toronto (2020)
Online
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The Psychology of Placemaking: We are the Art: People and Participation in Place
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Wie sieht das Museum der Zukunft aus? Art museums and the idea of placemaking
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The Coming Community: New Towns, Art & Place
Keynote and panel
Milton Keynes Gallery
2020
Milton Keynes
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Situating Self: co-creating spaces and places
Keynote
National Art Gallery of The Bahamas
2020
Online
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Digital Learning Together: Tate, Tate Exchange and co-creation
Keynote
Museum Ludwig
2020
Online
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The Museum as A Relational Object: Considering The Museum as Civic Agent
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Neighbourliness In Action: Tate Exchange, Tate Neighbours and Affecting Change Through Art
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Gender, Sex and Gossip in Ambridge: Women in The Archers
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How Trust and Elder Contributions Shape Society
Keynote and panel
High Level Forum on the Silver Economy
2019
Helsinki
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Talking Big: arts and making the liveable city
Keynote
OsloByliv conference on place and liveability, Bylivskonferansen
Organised by Oslo Kommune
2019
Oslo
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City of…placemaking? Looking at City of Culture through a placemaking lens
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Tate Neighbours
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The museum as a relational object: considering the museum as civic agent
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Provocation
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The Archers
In conversation with Tim Bentinck and Paddy O’Connell
Cheltenham Literary Festival
11 October 2017
Cheltenham
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Art practice, process, and new urbanism in Dublin: Art Tunnel Smithfield and social practice placemaking in the Irish capital
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Placemaking and Communities
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Creative placemakings: a typology of placemaking through the prism of arts practices and processes
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Performative architecture: reclaiming a vital architectural practice
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Planning as a social art form
Article
New Planner
September 2015
Print / Online
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What are the arts in social practice placemaking?
Paper
Arts in Society Conference: The Work of Art in the Age of Networked Society
22-24 July 2015
London
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Gentrification flipped by the arts in Indy
Article
Guardian Cities
July 2015
Online
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Architecture with Society: social practice placemaking and architecture in the public realm: a Dublin case study
Paper
All-Ireland Architecture Research Group
30-31 January 2015
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This Big City: The Brighton placemaking project with a Mexico City Twist
Presentation
Detroit Calling at the Placemaking Leadership Council
4 November 2014
Detroit
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Placemaking as performative art
Paper
Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference
26-29 August 2014
London
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How Brighton supports its artists working informally
Article
Global Urbanist
13 November 2013
Online
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Arts, relocalism and the city: global perspectives on architecture and urban creatives
Paper
Space: A Social Agenda @ PLACE
18 October 2013
Belfast
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Don Celender: Surveyed Part 2 exhibition review
Article
a-n magazine
23 June 2013
Print / online
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The global phenomenon of tactical urbanism as an indicator of new forms of citizenship
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Establishing an evidence base for the Cultural Olympiad: London 2012
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Healthy Communities
Presentation
Placemaking Leadership Council
8 May 2013
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Women in the Arts
Lead Editorial
a-n magazine
February 2012
Print / Online
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Concrete and Clay review
Article
Frame and Reference
17 February 2013
Online
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Commentary
Arts students: everything you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask
Comment
10 Sept 2012
London 2012: are we nearly there yet?
Comment
10 August 2012
FutureEverything: the how’s and whys of art and technology hook-ups
Lead
23 May 2012
Women in the Arts: some questions
Lead
5 March 2012
Guardian Culture Professionals Network
Online
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Collaboration
Curatorial essay
Conran&Partners
June 2012
Print / Online
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A Smart Guide to Utopia
Contributor
Le Cool
June 2012
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Arts, Culture, Heritage commentary
Various articles, Nov 2010-March 2014
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100m, Creative Campus Initiative: cultivating talent, celebrating excellence
Book (co-author)
Creative Campus Initiative
2011