

Re-imagining a Sense of Place
Given the significance a ‘sense of place’ has on a community’s demographic (gender, age, class, religion, ethnicity, etc), individually,...


What We Remember is What We Are
“No One should delude themselves into thinking we all use it the same way. But just as we use words like love and hate without ever...


Fabricating Post-conflict Amnesia
Often, agencies see their responsibility towards historic buildings in anthropomorphic terms as performing surgery, breathing new life...


Everyday Consequences of City Life
Many in the past thought that cities “rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life” (Marx). Nowadays...


Mitigating a Lack of Trust
Watches, thermometers, fuel gauges, barometers, a compass and tape measures are all tools from which to understand, share and commonly...


Inch Garvie : A Scottish Island & UK Statues of Disrepute
Inch Garvie, is Gaelic in origin and means either "rough island" or "island of the rough place" . It the perfect place to relocate the...


The Places Within
A fabulous sculpture called Deconstruction by Tania Font as part of the Vila Casas collection. Tania's creations exploring Deconstruction...


Place-remaking, Place-building and Place-keeping
Post-crisis conditions as a result of conflict, natural disaster, criminal activity or pandemic are extremely tricky to fully comprehend...


Theory and Practice
A quick post to share with you an event that I've been invited to speak at. The Program on Governance and Local Development at the...


Mosul's Old Town Park Update
Due to be completed in a fortnight and on schedule, the Mosul, Old City Park in Iraq is taking shape. Vegetation is being planed and...