Queer Infrastructure
Considering the networks of people and sites that have helped to support communities with non-normative sexualities and genders.
Infrastructures are symbolically highly charged networks, bringing people and services together, as well as allowing possibilities for different ways of being in the future. This activity stream accommodates research and other activities on the networks of people and sites that historically, and in the present, have helped to support communities with non-normative sexualities and genders. It brings insights from queer theory into the domain of urban theory, and vice versa.
Building on concepts of social and cultural infrastructure in academic and policy debates, we aim to move beyond essentialist readings of queer space, and better understand the inter-relationality of subjectivities and space. Our work is international, transdisciplinary, intersectional and multi-media.
Academic lead
Prof Ben Campkin was Co-Director/Director of UCL Urban Laboratory from 2008 – 2023. He is the Professor of Urbanism and Urban History at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and Vice-Dean Public and City Engagement for The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment. Contact b.campkin@ucl.ac.uk to propose activities or connect with our work under this Priority Area.
News
CfP ‘Night Stories: Urban Narratives of Migrant Lives in Europe’
As part of our transnational NITE research project, a call for papers has been launched for a special issue of 'Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture', edited by Sara Brandellero, Ailbhe Kenny and Derek Pardue.
14 Oct 2020
Ben Campkin interviews London Night Czar Amy Lamé
With lockdown in place and night-time spaces closed, UCL’s Ben Campkin spoke with London's Night Czar Amy Lamé about her work.
23 Jul 2020
Website on migrant night spaces in Europe launched
New resource connected to HERA-funded research project asks how night spaces are imagined, produced, experienced and narrated by migrant communities in Europe.
05 May 2020
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