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Dr Sabina Andron
Lecturer (Teaching)
The Bartlett School of Architecture
Faculty of the Built Environment
- Joined UCL
- 28th Sep 2015
Research summary
My principal areas of
research and expertise are around urban public cultures in the neoliberal city,
and methods based on visual, semiotic and legal analyses:
- Urban semiotics, geosemiotics, surface
semiotics: written and visual communication in urban space and the role of
visual culture in the development of urban identities
- Legal geography and neoliberal urbanism:
property regimes in cities, the privatisation of public space, architecture and
the lawscape; designing out crime; order and
transgression; urban criminology; the creative city and cultural consumption.
- The right to the city and spatial justice:
theories of space and spatial justice; post-Lefebvrian proposals for the right
to the city in a global context; spatial commons and activism; public protests
and cultures of dissent.
- Graffiti, street art and public art: the history of sanctioned and unsanctioned surface marking; vandalism and writing on walls; transgressive subcultures and their appropriations.
Teaching summary
2021-22 teaching:
Representations of Cities, MA Architectural History
Insurgent cities, MArch Year 4 Advanced Architectural Studies
Surface city, BSc Architecture Year 3 Dissertation
Architectural representations, BSc Architecture Year 2 History and Theory
Architecture Research II, BSc Architecture and Interdisciplinary Studies Year 2
Education
- University College London
- Doctorate, Doctorat | 2018
- Manchester Metropolitan University
- Other higher degree, Master of Arts (Hons) | 2011
- Universitatea Babes - Bolyai, Cluj - Napoca
- Other higher degree, Master of Arts | 2010
- Universitatea Babes - Bolyai, Cluj - Napoca
- First Degree, Bachelor of Arts | 2008
Biography
Dr SabinaAndron is a London-based architectural historian and urban scholarspecializing in urban public cultures in the neoliberal city, and methods basedon visual, semiotic and legal analyses.
Her research interests focus onthe right to the city, urban surface inscriptions and materialities, crime andtransgression, and urban semiotics. She completed her PhD in 2018 at theBartlett School of Architecture, University College London, with a thesistitled “Graffiti, Street Art and theRight to the Surface: For a Semiotic, Cultural and Legal Approach to UrbanSurfaces and Inscriptions” – to be published by Routledge in 2023.
Sabina’s work includes modules on thehistory of London architecture, representations of architecture and cities, neoliberalurbanism and city cultures, crime in cities, and graffiti, spatial justice andthe image of the city. She was a UCL Grand Challenges grantee and organiser ofthe international Graffiti Sessions conference in 2014, as well as a BritishCouncil fellow at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016. She is therecipient of the 2020 Prosser award for outstanding work in visualmethodologies, awarded by the International Visual Sociology Association.