Deadline: 19 September 2025
Workshop dates: 3-4 December 2025
Location: Melbourne Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne, Australia
– The workshop will take place at the University of Melbourne’s Parkville campus on Wednesday 3 and Thursday 4 December 2025 and is in-person only.
– Day 1 (full day) consists of presentation panels and roundtables focused on sharing research and practice, and exploring methodological tools to understand urban surfaces. Day 2 (half day) is designed as a site-visit working session focused on the governance of urban images and graffiti removal as creative practice.
– The event is conceived as a small scale, deep study session for approximately 20 participants. There will not be an audience for the event and all participants are expected to contribute to the discussion and research activities. There is no registration fee; and lunches and a dinner on the first evening will be catered.
– Early career colleagues are particularly encouraged to apply. Four regional travel and accommodation bursaries are available from interstate Australia and New Zealand. We will consider subsidising travel costs for colleagues coming from further afield on a case by case basis. NB full time employed colleagues are unlikely to be considered for bursaries.
This workshop is funded by the Urban Studies Foundation Seminar Series Award “Walls speak. Are you listening? A research agenda for urban surfaces” (USF-SSA-250602). Calls for the next two workshops in Nicosia, Cyprus (May 2026) and Uppsala, Sweden (August 2026) will be circulated in due course.
For any questions, please get in touch with the organisers:
Melbourne workshop: Sabina Andron, sabina.andron@unimelb.edu.au
Nicosia workshop: Konstantinos Avramidis, avramidis.konstantinos@ucy.ac.cy
Uppsala workshop: Tom Ward, tom.ward@kultgeog.uu.se