The NASP PhD program in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research (SOMET) is glad to announce the

SEMINAR

Graffiti and Street Art.
The Role of Critical Art Forms in Urban Spaces
Sabina Andron - Melbourne University

9 February 2024, h. 10.30
NASP Graduate School - Room A
Via Pace, 10 - Milan

Abstract

What is the role of urban surfaces in processes of political contestation? What role do graffiti and street art play in the right to the city? In this seminar, we will try to answer these and other questions with Sabina Andron.

Dr Andron is an architectural historian and urban scholar interested in city surfaces as sites of political contestation. She has been researching graffiti and street art for over ten years and her work focuses on public cultures, and visual and spatial justice in the city.

She recently published a new book called 'Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City', which brings surfaces to life as political and contested spaces in the city. She uses surfaces to analyze conflicts over the right to the city, intersecting a semiotic approach with an architectural-urbanist and critical geography approach.