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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
(2015 – present) Senior 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) Senior 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
- 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 Sabina
Andron is a London-based architectural historian
and urban scholar specializing in urban public cultures in the neoliberal city,
and methods based on visual, semiotic and legal analyses.
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, working 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, as well as a British Council fellow at the Venice
Architecture Biennale in 2016. She is the recipient of the 2020 Prosser award
for outstanding work in visual methodologies, awarded by the International Visual
sociology Association.