Speaking

I do not teach but I have given lectures and taken part in tutorials from 2006 onwards. These include the following:

In the UK, the Universities of Aberystwyth, Bournemouth, Bradford, Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Central Lancashire, Chester, Coventry, Durham, East Anglia, Essex, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Kent, Leeds, Lincoln, Liverpool, London (Architectural Association, East London, Goldsmiths, London Metropolitan, LSE, RCA, UCL) Manchester (MMU and UOM), Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Portsmouth, Salford, Sheffield (UOS and Hallam) and York; and at galleries, festivals or museums in Belfast, Cardiff, Cheltenham, Derry, Edinburgh, Folkestone, Frome, Gateshead, Hastings, Hay on Wye, Helmsdale, Luton, Milton Keynes, Newport, Southampton, Swansea and Wakefield.

Outside the UK, Universities in Aarhus, Amsterdam, Auckland, Bergen, Bucharest, Cork, Dublin (UCD), Galway, Leipzig, Maastricht (Jan Van Eyck), Moscow (Strelka), Nanjing, New York (Columbia), Shanghai (Jiaotong), Stockholm (KTH), Tallinn, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw and Yekaterinburg; and at museums, galleries, festivals and biennales in Astana, Almaty, Belgrade, Berlin, Brussels, Cologne, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Gdansk, The Hague, Hamburg, Kirkenes, Krakow, Kyiv, Ljubljana, Milan, Montreal (CCA), Naples, Nizhny Novgorod, Oslo, Prague, Rotterdam, Seoul, Shenzhen, Slavutych, Venice, Wellington, Yerevan and Zagreb.

– Other teaching work includes

Visiting fellow at the University of Plymouth, UK, 2011-12

Contributor to OSCE programme Journalism and Ethics in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies, Kyiv, 2016

Tutorials as part of the Belarusian Association of Student Architects’ annual Forum, Minsk, 2017

Broadcasting

Radio: several appearances on BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking; also on BBC Radio 4, Radio London, Radio Wales, Radio Scotland and Radio Shetland, and several appearances on Monocle 24. Regular guest on Novara Media, The London Ear and Suite (212) on Resonance FM. Appearances on podcasts including A World to Win, Left/Over, Londown, Notebook on Cities and Culture, regularly on Politics Theory Other, and on Trashfuture.

Television: appearances on BBC TV’s The Culture Show and Newsnight, and on Sky News.

– On Film

Scriptwriter and presenter of ‘From Rock to Rubble – how Manchester lost its music’, a short film for the Guardian website, 2010

Scriptwriter and voiceover for Matthew Darbyshire’s film ‘T Rooms’ in the exhibition of the same name, Tramway Gallery, Glasgow, 2012

Interviewee in Florian Habicht’s documentary film Pulp – A Film about Life, Death and Supermarkets, 2014

Interviewee in Turlough Kelly’s documentary film The 4^th Act, 2016

Red Metropolis TV, a series of YouTube interviews with Kate Macintosh, John McDonnell and others, 2020

Scriptwriter and presenter of Brutal Beauty – a Tour of the Czech and Slovak Embassies in London, a short film for the Czech Centre, 2021.

Programming, Events, Curation

Totally Bored, a fanzine co-edited with Robert Barry, 2003-2005

Kino Fist, a collaborative film club, blog and zine co-edited with Nina Power, 2006-2009.

In the Shadow of Senate House, collaborative programme of talks, events, publications and walks with Esther Leslie, Victoria McNeile and Henderson Downing, at Birkbeck College, London, 2009

Participation in the Writers in Residence programme in Kuldiga, Latvia, 2016

Wall texts and co-curation for Brutalust – Celebrating Post-War Southampton, K6 Gallery, 2016

One-off walking tours of various towns and cities including Bath, Bristol, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Poundbury, Sheffield, Southampton and Warsaw; regular walking tours for the Architecture Foundation and Open City London, 2018 onwards.

Programme Notes for a screening of Patrick Keiller’s The Dilapidated Dwelling, Barbican, 2019

Music

Sleevenotes for Golau Glau, A New Kind of Bleak, 2013, with lyrics based on my 2012 book.

Booklet texts for A London Trilogy – the Films of Saint Etienne 2003-2007, BFI DVD, 2013

Sleevenotes for Saint Etienne’s album I’ve Been Trying to Tell You, Heavenly, 2021