THE RIGHT TO THE SURFACE IS THE RIGHT TO THE CITY
"Urban canvases: Kampala's visual culture through posters" was an exhibition at the Makerere University Art Gallery in Kampala, Uganda, 14-18 November 2025. We displayed 141 poster-size photographs of public images from the streets of Kampala, taken over three years of field work between 2023-25.
We are inviting expressions of interest to attend our online workshops in April, September, and November.
I am organising a session with Joanne Choueiri at the Royal Geographical Society annual conference, which will take place in London between 1-4 September 2026. The theme is "Geographies of concealment: Temporary Urban Barriers of Masking, Covering, and Hiding"
We are inviting expressions of interest to attend our two-day workshops in Nicosia, Cyprus and Uppsala, Sweden.
We delivered the first of three Urban Surfaces Research Network workshops in Melbourne with 18 brilliant participants.
The Urban Visual Dialogues series is going out with a bang for 2025, with a panel on visual governance which includes artists, activists, buffers, academics, and municipal managers.
My project, "Visual governance in the city: rethinking graffiti and public images" won a three-year fellowship awarded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) for research innovation by early career folks.
A photo of me leading a walking tour has recently been featured in University of Melbourne's poster campaign for the Being Human Festival - which is all very meta, given that street posters have been one of my main research subjects in the past few years.
We are resuming our Urban Visual Dialogues event series with two presentations by my collaborators-friends-visiting PhDs, Tom Ward and Cecilia Brazioli. Cecilia and Tom are in Melbourne for 3 months and this is their main public-facing seminar.
SABINA ANDRON 