Peter Bengtsen, art historian and sociologist, who has written extensively about street art, graffiti and urban public space since 2006. In addition to numerous articles and anthology contributions, Bengtsen has authored three monographs: The Street Art World (2014), Street Art and the Environment (2018) and Tracks and Traces. Exploring the World of Graffiti Writing through […]
Erik Hannerz is a researcher and associate professor in Sociology at Lund University, and a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University. He received his PhD at Uppsala University in 2014 on a dissertation on subcultural theory, with punk as the main case. The last decade he has spent researching graffiti. Hannerz […]
is a multidisciplinary British artist and cultural worker based in Berlin. His projects range from participatory community actions and sound installations to photography series and investigative writing. He is inspired by everyday encounters in his personal and professional life, often embarking on in-depth, research-driven enquiries that explore his connections to and separations from place. Since […]
Dr. Friederike Landau-Donnelly [she, they] is an intersectional political theorist, urban sociologist, and cultural geographer. She is interested in political theories of conflict and the ways in which public spaces are contested. Through empirical and artistic research in places like Vancouver, Berlin, Leipzig, Linz, Vienna, and Malmö, Friederike theorizes different modalities of conflict in cultural […]
Anna Litsmark, PhD student in Environmental Psychology, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, LTH, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University. Anna is a PhD student in Environmental Psychology at Lund University, working in a project focusing on children’s independent mobility during dark hours and the potential role of outdoor lighting for their mobility. By conducting studies […]
Jorge Martín Sainz de los Terreros is an architect, urban designer and researcher. During the last five years, he has worked as a public official at the Council of Madrid, and currently he develops his postdoctoral research at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His research mainly engages with questions about issue […]
Georgios Tsiakiris’ background is within psychology, specializing in systems theory and family therapy. He has worked at the Municipalities of Lund and Helsingborg, focusing on integration and treatment of young adults. Georgios obtained his Masters in Cognitive Science från Umeå University, having health psychology as main research subject. His PhD research project is about mediating […]
Nona Schulte-Römer is a social researcher who focuses on environmental risks in the context of urban socio-technical transition. Following her doctoral thesis on the introduction of urban LED streetlighting (Innovating in Public, 2015), she engaged in inter- and transdisciplinary activities. She is the lead author of the 2018 open-access e-book “Light Pollution: A Global Discussion” […]
Sinead D’Silva is a social researcher (betwixt human geography and sociology) interested in the entanglements of youth futures, education and work in society, social justice action, and relationship with place. They adopt a critical approach to the ways in which state and market converge to create narratives of futures articulated in disconnection from those whose […]
Pallavi Narayan has authored Pamuk’s Istanbul: The Self and the City (2022) and edited Singapore at Home: Life across Lines (2021). She has worked in academia and publishing in Singapore and India, including at National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Management University, O.P. Jindal Global University, and Ahmedabad University. Her work is in the interdisciplinary […]