Urban Visual Dialogues 3: Graffiti, Posters, and Visual Governance in the City

Location: G26 – Biosciences 1 Building, The University of Melbourne, Parkville | Map
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Public Panel, 4:00 – 6:00 pm (AEDT) Thursday 4 December 2025
G26 – Biosciences 1 Building, The University of Melbourne, Parkville

Join us for presentations and a panel discussion with makers and managers of public images, and learn about the interesting roles these play in the visual culture of cities.

The panel will be moderated by Dr Sabina Andron, urban visual cultures researcher and creative practitioner, and will include:

  • Kyle Magee, anti-advertising activist
  • Prof Kurt Iveson, urban geographer working on urban spaces as public media
  • Jo Mair, Creative Urban Places Programme Lead at the City of Melbourne
  • Greg Ireland, Founder of Graffiti Removal Chemicals

This is the concluding event of the Urban Surfaces project workshop “Graffiti, Posters, and Visual Governance in the City“, funded by an Urban Studies Foundation seminar series award. Further details on this workshop are available below.

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Our USF grant provided the platform for a major programme of research on family homelessness, debt and temporary accommodation in the UK, culminating in the 2025 co-authored book Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State. The grant generated more than £550,000 in subsequent research funding and grew new and now enduring partnerships with Shared Health Foundation, the Chartered Institute of Housing, Garden Court Chambers and the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Households in Temporary Accommodation. The research has had significant policy impact. It directly informed the UK Government's National Plan to End Homelessness (2025) and underpinned a proposed amendment to the Social Housing Bill currently before the House of Lords (June 2026), with the potential to change primary legislation affecting survivors of domestic abuse facing housing-related debt.

Navigating debt-trap urbanism in pandemic times: family homelessness and temporary accommodation in Greater Manchester, Pandemics and Cities

Urban Studies Foundation is a registered Scottish charity. Registration number SC039937.

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