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Mr Jordan Rowe
Centre Manager
Built Environment Faculty Office
Faculty of the Built Environment
- Joined UCL
- 15th Nov 2013
Biography
Jordan is a writer, curator and researcher on urban culture, nights, heritage and identities. He is the Centre Manager of UCL Urban Laboratory, a cross-disciplinary research centre for the study of cities and urbanisation, and project coordinator for the European Research Council grant ‘Making Africa Urban’, led by Prof Jennifer Robinson.
He has been a regular contributor to talks, panels, roundtables and crits on the creative city, situated practice, night spaces, gentrification, the urban essay film, and queer urbanisms, and is also a Young Urbanist at The Academy of Urbanism.
At UCL he is the point of contact for the Urban Laboratory, project
managing activities in coordination with the Director and Co-Directors, maintains and fosters new collaborations and partnerships, and is head
of the Lab's communication.
A UCL graduate with a background in History and Urban Studies, he has presented, chaired panels and been an invited contributor to events and workshops on a range of themes. Originating from work undertaken on modernist housing estates, using inter-war Berlin as a case study, his current interest focuses on city museums and their relationship to and engagement with the contemporary city.