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Dr Sabina Andron
Teaching Fellow
The Bartlett School of Architecture
Faculty of the Built Environment
- Joined UCL
- 28th Sep 2015
Research summary
My research focuses on graffiti, street art and urban surfaces, and my interest is to understand the dynamic between surfaces and inscriptions, their spatial politics and their impact on ruban cultures.
I research graffiti and street art in relation to neoliberal urban governance agendas, between criminalisation, eradication, and commodification as part of the creative cities paradigm.
More importantly, I am interested in issues related to urban spatial production and the right to the city, and I am working on developing a theoretical framework to understand the right to the city by analysing surface inscriptions and regulatory frameworks: the right to the city is the right to the surface.
I have developed a method of reading urban surfaces which I call surface semiotics (or wall interviewing). This is an original method to interpret inscriptions in-situ, which I use as a form of analytical visual method throughout my work. Approaches from art sociology, visual culture and legal geography also inform my work on the image of the city, urban property regimes, and issues of access and control of urban spaces.
I am interested in urban surfaces as spaces of collective political production and agency, and as key sites for the exploration of urgent notions such as the right to the city and the urban commons.
Teaching summary
(2015 – present) Lecturer, School of Architecture,
Computing and Engineering, University of East London
(2015 – present) Module leader in History and Theory of Interiors, BA Interior Design Years 1,2,3, and MA Interior Design
(2018 – present) Lecturer in History and Theory of Cities, BA Architecture
(2017 – present) Teaching Fellow, Bartlett School
of Architecture, University College London
Module co-leader, with Prof Iain Borden, Representations of Cities, MA Architectural History
Teaching Fellow in History and Theory, BSc Architecture Year 3
Teaching Fellow in History and Theory, BSc Architecture Year 2
(2018 – present) Sessional tutor, Department of
Architecture, Ravensbourne University London
(07/2018) Weekend Course Leader, Royal Academy of Arts London
(2015-18) Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
(2015-17) Teaching Assistant in the History of London Architecture, School of History, Queen Mary, University of London
Education
- University College London
- PhD, Architectural History | 2018
- Manchester Metropolitan University
- MA, Visual Communication | 2011
- Universitatea Babes - Bolyai, Cluj - Napoca
- MA, Theatre studies | 2010
- Universitatea Babes - Bolyai, Cluj - Napoca
- BA, Comparative Literature | 2008
Biography
Dr Sabina Andron is a London-based
architectural historian and urban scholar.
Her research interests focus
on the right to the city, urban surface inscriptions and materialities, crime
and transgression, and urban semiotics. She completed her PhD in 2018 at the
Bartlett School of Architecture, with a thesis titled “Graffiti, Street Art and the Right to the
Surface: For a Semiotic, Cultural and Legal Approach to Urban Surfaces and
Inscriptions”.
Sabina currently
lectures across London, including work at the Bartlett School of Architecture, the
University of East London, and Ravensbourne University. Her work includes modules
on the history of London architecture, the history of the home and interior
design, neoliberal urbanism and city cultures, and graffiti, spatial justice
and the image of the city. She was a UCL Grand Challenges grantee and organiser
of the international Graffiti Sessions conference in 2014, and a British
Council fellow at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016. She is co-convenor,
with Susan Hansen, of the Art on the Streets symposium.