Event: Melbourne book launch

Join us for the Melbourne book launch of 'Urban surfaces, graffiti, and the right to the city'.

Thursday 11 April 2024 @ Bookshop by Uro, Collingwood Yards, 18.00-19.30

Free registration here through Eventbrite.

I am very pleased to have three of my favourite scholars and dear friends give responses to the book:

Alison Young is the Francine V. McNiff Professor of Criminology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, and Deputy Director of the Melbourne Centre for Cities. She is the author of Street Art, Public City (2014), Street Art World (2016), and co-author of Street/ Studio(2010). She has recently been researching the atmospheres of public space, especially in respect of its use by people experiencing homelessness and public protesters.

Chris Parkinson is an artist and researcher engaged with lens-based, urban, and conceptual practices. His 2010 book, Peace of Wall: Street Art from East Timor, is described as a ‘book of evocative photojournalism capturing an important moment in East Timor’s history through its walls.’ He is currently completing a PhD at the University of Melbourne, a Rhythmanalysis of collective art practices and public cultures in Yogyakarta, Indonesia through the study of the art collective, Survive! Garage.

Professor Lachlan MacDowall is a scholar of graffiti, street art and digital culture, best known for pioneering research methods that mix genres, images and data. In 2020-22 he was the creative director of Flash Forward. His latest publications are Waves of Zeroes (2022) and the new edition of the World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti (2023). He is currently Director of the MIECAT Institute in Fitzroy.