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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
I teach the following modules at the Bartlett School of Architecture in 2020-21:
Representations of Cities, MA Architectural History
Urban environments as cultural experiences and their representations through film, through psychogeography, modernisms, informality, destruction and reconstruction
Insurgent cities, MArch Year 4
Regulation and disorder in global cities, through legal geography, criminology, subcultural studies, protest and subversion
Surface city, BSc Architecture Year 3
Urban surfaces and inscriptions through discourses of regeneration, order, visibility, creative urbanism, law, ownership, the right to the city and spatial justice
Architectural representations, BSc Architecture Year 2
The production, use, experience and impact of contemporary architecture through text, drawing, image, activism and broadcasting
History and theory of engineering and architecture, MEng Year 1
Building-based survey course focused on 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, University College London, 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” – to be published by Routledge in 2022.
Sabina’s work includes modules on the
history of London architecture, representations of architecture and cities, neoliberal
urbanism and city cultures, crime in cities, 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.