Coming up
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Podcast Guest
Taling place with host, Dr Nicola headlan. Placecast is a Local Policy Innovation Partnership (LPIP) Hub production based at City-REDI, University of Birmingham.
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Key contibutor
S.M.A.K. In Motion
11-12 December
Ghent
For more than ten years, the participatory platform S.M.A.K. Beweegt ("S.M.A.K. In Motion") has been bringing people and art closer together through projects rooted in doing together, thinking together, and experiencing together.
Most Recent
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In-Conversation Host
Words Change Things Festival
Interviewing John Grindrod, author, Tales of the Suburbs
30 April 2026
Margate
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LABS Co-Host
LABS x WWDN – Creative Neighbourhoods: A Blueprint for Local Placemaking
23–24 April 2026
Stranraer
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Professional development Talk with Fine Art Undergraduates.
DescriptiUniversity of Brighton
13 November 2025
Brightonon goes here
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StadsSalonsUrbains Lecture Series
Joining the Autumn programme of international speakers, including time with students and a keynote lecture.
Brussels Centre for Urban Studies
24 October 2025
Brussels
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Academic Year Opening Address
Giving an interactive afternoon workshop to open the new year of the PlacemakingJax placemaking School.
4 November 2025
Jacksonville, FL.
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Trauma Informed Placemaking CPD
With Dr Anita McKeown
What We Do Now programme, at The Stove Network
w/b 15 September 2025
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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, Marine Workshops
8 July 2025
Newhaven
A Sussex Co-Lab event
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5th Annual CivicLAB Conference: Connected Communities
Chair
26 June 2025
Derby
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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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Woven Landscapes, Connected Threads - Interlacing Culture, Community and Place in Sussex Chair and Plenary
Sussex CoLab, University of Sussex
29 May 2025
Brighton & Hove
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