Volver a empezar: Barcelona
Una reflexión poética de expatriada y turista en casa, sobre la necesidad de hacer y reinventar nuestras ciudades durante este […]
Cities
LockDown Diaries
Reflections from a non-stop travellerrediscovering life in her city while isolating at home Here you have a collection of diary
The art of Brexit @France24
I am pleased to have featured in #France24 Culture / @encoref24 programme dedicated to discussing the impact of Brexit on
Art and Urban Decadence
So pleased to feature in the latest issue of #TheSecularHeretic with an article on ‘Art and Decadence’ discussing cycles of #cityRenaissance, #regeneration & #gentrification with an emphasis on the often ungenerous impact of such processes on artists
Culture Summitt UCLG
Some pictures from the third UCLG #cultureSummit , hosted in Buenos Aires. The summit has become the largest global gathering of cities
Impacts 18 Symposium Highlights
Find below highlights from our 10 year anniversary symposium, launching Impacts 08 ~ 18 | #Impacts18, the major research programme I
International Symposium | Cities of Culture, 30 years on
Culture Liverpool and the Institute of Cultural Capital have partnered with the British Council, and the CreArt European Network to
Impacts 18 | Legacies of Liverpool as #ECoC
Impacts’18 is a longitudinal research programme dedicated to capturing the long-term effects of hosting the European Capital of Culture title
Cultural Legacies of Rio 2016, one year on
I am in Rio this week presenting the results of our one year UK-Brazil research collaboration to explore the immediate
PROJECT | Brands, Myths, Stories post Rio 2016
Reimaging Brazilian cities | Urban images and cultural narratives in the wake of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games The British
‘If everyone says so …’ Press narratives and image change in major event host cities
I have just published this academic paper within the Urban Studies Journal. You can access it here Abstract This paper
DEBATE | On the need for both ‘black’ and ‘white’ narratives around mega-event impacts.
We need to acknowledge both the black AND the white (plus some grey, also) As academics, we have no choice but
PROJECT | What counts as #OlympicArt during the Rio 2016 Olympics?
I am in Rio throughout the Olympic Games, as I have done since 1999 across eight Olympic cities (nine if
Europe ~ UK Cultural Exchange: Can we avoid the worst of Brexit?
I wake up to the not totally surprising but still mystifying news of a Brexit. My first thought is: research
Liverpool is closer to Marseille than to London … Europe and the EU as trumpeteers for British talent
On the day the United Kingdom decides whether to remain in or leave the EU, I share my personal take on the value
Liverpool ArtLab | The city as laboratory for cultural exchange
On 21 June I am speaking at Common Ground, a day event for AHRC Commons members aimed at: “enabling ideas and
My research trajectory since 1999
I have interrogated cities and event-led cultural policy-making since 1999. I started by revisiting the cultural legacy of the Barcelona
Liverpool 2018: 10 year ECoC legacy
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) supports ICC research programme on the ten year legacy of Liverpool as European Capital
Rio 2016 Cultural Narrative for the Olympics
On August 5th 2015, Rio marked its final year to go to the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games. The
Rio 2016: one year to go
I am in Brazil during the first week in August 2015 to meet with key figures behind Rio’s 2016 Olympic