Talks
Presenting at Visual Urbanism: Locating Place in Time. British Library, 2015
May 2022: A panel discussion (in Catalan and Spanish) called “Memòria Pública i Patrimoni Industrial a Barcelona” (Public Memory and Industrial Heritage in Barcelona) at the Barcelona History Museum (MUHBA) Oliva Artés, as part of the events surrounding the Industrial Obelisks exhibition. The round table featured myself, geographer and MUHBA Director Joan Roca, geographer Mercè Tatjer, cultural studies scholar Mari Paz Balibrea, and was moderated by geographer Antonio Luna.
April 2022: A panel discussion (in Spanish and Catalan) called “Fotografía y transformación urbana en Barcelona” (Photography and Urban Transformation in Barcelona”) at the Barcelona History Museum (MUHBA) Oliva Artés, as part of the events surrounding the Industrial Obelisks exhibition. The panel featured myself, photographer Manolo Laguillo, photographer Xavier Ribas, and art historian Núria F. Rius.
December 2020: An invited presentation on the “high line effect” (in English) for the International Conference of Intervention on Industrial Heritage. Held online, hosted by the Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya (COAC) as part of the AADIPA European Award of Intervention on Architectural Heritage.
November 2017: Panel discussion and book launch for the book Deconstructing the High Line at the Urban Democracy Lab, New York University. The panel consisted of myself, Christoph Lindner, and Julia Rothenberg. The paper presented was entitled “_____’s own Highline: Reading the High Line Effect through British Cities.”
April 2017: Invited panelist for Trash Talks: Re:Industrial City, part of the Mitchell Lecture Series at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. My paper was entitled “Ambivalent Monuments: Re-Examining the Material and Symbolic Politics of Urban Elevated Railways.”
September 2015: Talk at Global Capitalism and Processes of Urban Regeneration: A Tribute to Neil Smith, held at the MACBA (Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art) and organized by Espais Crítics, a collective of critical urban researchers in Barcelona. My presentation starts at 58:40. The paper, entitled “Internal Frontiers: Manchester’s Infrastructural Spaces, Symbolic Economies, and Industrial Gentrification” is in English.
May 2015: Invited panelist at Visual Urbanism: Locating Time in Place, held at the British Library in London, presented in association with Urban Photofest and Goldsmiths, University of London. My talk, part of the Mapping Urban Temporalities session, begins at 1:51:57. It explores the changing representation and perception of industrial-era railways in Manchester through maps, plans, paintings, filmic, and photographic representations.