Last week I went to meet Helen Storey to talk about her current project Dress For Our Time[1]. She is a Professor at the Centre for Sustainable Fashion (London College of Fashion)[2] and co-founder of the Helen Storey Foundation. She is still and thoughtful as she speaks, carefully considering both questions and her replies. In … More The clock is ticking for Dress For Our Time by Imogen Slater

The Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR), Parental Mental Health Team (PMHT) and South London Gallery (SLG)  invite you to the Making it Together Conference. Date : 3rd December Time : 9.30 – 5.00 pm Location : RHB cinema, Goldsmiths University of London, SE14 6NW.     This conference takes as its starting point … More Making it Together? The Politics and Practice of Art and Mental Health Partnerships Conference

Date : Tuesday October 27th Location : Goldsmiths College, UoL, Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre Time : 5-7pm My book, Small Towns, Austere Times, is a politicised re-write of PhD research undertaken at Goldsmiths, supervised by Les Back. I published the book with Zero, a company perceived to operate on the borderline between politics, academia and … More Book Launch : Small Towns, Austere Times by Steve Hanson

The 2015 International Urban Photo Fest (UPF) opens on 23rd October and promises an exciting schedule of events for this year’s festival.  Urban Photo Fest is run by artists, theorists and researchers and includes a conference, a master-class, workshops, exhibitions and walks exploring street-based urban photographic practices. As part of a wider programme of events around London exploring critical ideas addressing how ‘the street’ … More (re:)Thinking the Street – Urban Encounters Conference and Urban Photo Fest 2015

 Collaborative Evaluation: 2nd visit to Soweto (c) v. Wissel, 2014 Dr Alison Rooke and Christian Von Wissel are presenting their paper on the 9 Urban Biotopes project at the UCL Urban Lab+ London Symposium 2015. Date : Thursday 17 September, 2pm, Location : Darwin Room B05, Darwin Building and The Bartlett, 140 London Road, London Chair: Paola … More Nine Urban Biotopes: Negotiating the Future of Urban Living by Alison Rooke and Christian von Wissel

Streetopolis is an exhibition of contemporary fine art, urban and documentary photographers responding to the theme of ‘streets of the world’. The photographers are part of the Association of Urban Photographers, an international collective focusing on the nature of urban and city spaces. The artists are all urbanists whose work focuses on aspects of urban … More Streetopolis | Association of Urban Photographers Exhibition | Autumn 2015

Ever wondered what it is like to build your own home? This exhibition takes you behind the scenes, into the everyday lives and experiences of selfbuilders. It displays visual material produced with and by selfbuilders to tell the story of selfbuild in contemporary Britain from the perspective of selfbuilders. From the diverse motivations that lead … More Beyond Grand Designs … Everyday Stories of Selfbuild – Exhibition and Workshop by Michaela Benson