E3: Sonorous Urban Landscapes: Using sound and light to capture and communicate changing biodiversity in an urban setting
14/02/2024 → 13/02/2025
Research

Expanding Excellence in England (E3): Sustainability Bridging Grant
01/04/2023 → 31/03/2024
Research

REPLENISH: Reimagining PLaces and Engineering Infrastructure Systems for Health
20/03/2020 → 20/09/2020
Research

Beyond Imagination (E3)
01/08/2019 → 31/03/2023
Research

ISF: The Future of Community and Values 2050
20/02/2017 → 22/03/2019
Research

ISF: Mobile Utopia 1851 - 2051
01/02/2016 → 31/12/2016
Research

Institutional Sponsorship 2015
01/06/2015 → 31/03/2016
Research

ESRC centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science - CASS
31/03/2013 → 30/03/2018
Research

Transforming the engineering of cities to deliver societal and planetary wellbeing
01/05/2012 → 31/12/2017
Research

Rewilding the Night: Co-developing nature-inclusive lighting
01/01/1900 → …
Research

The Pavements Project: Reimagining Mundane Infrastructure as Local 'Sustainability Catalysts'
01/01/1900 → …
Research

Folk, Knowledge, Place (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Sounds From The Other City 2025
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Dark Futures, Night Spaces
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

International Congress Noz Breizh
Participation in conference - Academic

City Lights: Whatever Happened to Dark Skies?
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Design Research Futures
Invited talk

Council for Higher Education in Art and Design (CHEAD) (External organisation)
Membership of council

Design for Health (Journal)
Publication peer-review

5th International Conference on Night Studies
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Envisioning Futures of the Built Environment
Invited talk

Horizon Scan 2024: Emerging policy issues for the next five years
Parliament

Journal of Rural and Community Development (Journal)
Publication peer-review

The City After Dark: Air Space Workshop and Night Walk
Invited talk

Imagination: Evolving A Research Culture
Invited talk

The Science of Future Cities
Invited talk

CHANSE, Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe (External organisation)
Membership of committee

Philosophy of the City Journal (Journal)
Publication peer-review

The future is a work in progress at the Festival of Futures
Symposium

Imagination Now & Next at the Festival of Futures
Symposium

Embracing Darkness in Design
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Dark Matters: Thinking and Walking Between Dusk and Dawn
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Dark Skies: Reattunement, Re-enchantment and Redistribution
Symposium

We Walk Into The Twilight
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Designing for a More-than-Human World
Invited talk

Design for All: People, Place, Planet
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

4th International Conference on Night Studies
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

DarkSky UK (External organisation)
Membership of board

The neglected pollutants: the effects of artificial light and noise on human health
Parliament

International Dark-Sky Association UK (External organisation)
Membership of board

Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities (External organisation)
Member of Advisory Panel

3rd International Conference on Night Studies
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

3rd International Conference on Night Studies
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Dark Feelings: Atmospheres and Emotions in the Nocturnal City
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

City Nights: Migration and Cultural Encounters - Night Spaces: Migration Culture and Integration in Europe (NITE), 3rd International Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Urban Natures: Making Visible, (Re)Connecting and (Re)Politicising
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Designing Future Cities for Wellbeing
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Nocturnal Spaces: Rediscovering an Architecture of Darkness
Invited talk

Responsible Lighting in a Climate Changing World
Invited talk

Utopianism in Contemporary Urbanism
Invited talk

2nd International Conference on Night Studies
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Tirana Design Week 2021
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

The Housing Crisis and Affordability
Invited talk

Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Dark Wandering: Multispecies Encounters in the Future City
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Design Council (External organisation)
Member of Advisory Panel

Land Use Policy (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Foresight (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Future Cities
Invited talk

Future Cities: Questioning spaces that promote wellbeing and social inclusion
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

The Dark Turn in Contemporary Urbanism
Invited talk

Future Cities
Invited talk

Critical Urbanism: Tomorrow's Cities Today?
Invited talk

Cumbria Dark Skies Festival
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Writing, Lighting and Night
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

The Future of Futures?
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Rethinking Urban Nights: Cultures, Practices and Futures
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Smart Cities: Delivering Urban Futures?
Invited talk

H-Net (External organisation)
Membership of network

Rethinking Darkness: Cultures, Histories, Practices
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Manchester: Something Rich and Strange
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

International Night Studies Network (External organisation)
Membership of network

Designing Future Cities for Wellbeing
Invited talk

International Dark-Sky Association (External organisation)
Member of an organisation

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research - NWO (External organisation)
Membership of committee

More-than-human Nights: Intersecting lived experience and diurnal rhythms in the nocturnal city
Oral presentation

4th International Ambiances Network Congress (Event)
Membership of committee

Ethics, Policy and Environment (Journal)
Publication peer-review

16th Architectural Humanities Research Association International Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Cheltenham Literature Festival
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Designing and Delivering Tomorrow's World
Invited talk

Cheltenham Science Festival
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Visible Cities: Translating Ideas for Collective Life
Invited talk

Swiss National Science Foundation (External organisation)
Membership of committee

Not Quite Light Festival 2019
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Following Hauntology: Twilight Streets and Dark Horizons
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

The Landscape and Architecture of British Post-War Infrastructure
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Smart Cities: Urban Futures?
Invited talk

UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowships (UKRI FLF) programme Peer Review College (PRC) (External organisation)
Membership of committee

The British Academy (External organisation)
Membership of committee

15th Architectural Humanities Research Association International Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Narrative Afoot: walking as praxis between genres
Invited talk

HERA Humanities in the European Research Area (External organisation)
Membership of committee

Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting 2018
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting 2018
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

The Smart City
Invited talk

Nightscapes: On Wandering, Deviancy and Creativity
Invited talk

Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies (External organisation)
Membership of committee

Mobile Utopia
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

WWTF (Vienna Science and Technology Fund) (External organisation)
Membership of committee

Dag Van De Architectuur
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Open Senses Festival
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Mobilities Literature Culture
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Lacking Vision: challenges & opportunities for urban futures
Invited talk

Imagining Urban Futures
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

The Future of Cities: the role of imagination & shared vision for building our tomorrows
Invited talk

Dark Futures: the loss of night in the contemporary city?
Invited talk

Festival of Art and The Future City
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Festival of Art and The Future City
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

European Commission (External organisation)
Membership of committee

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (External organisation)
Membership of committee

European Commission JRC Annual Conference 2016 (Event)
Membership of committee

Shadow Play: Liberation and Exhilaration in the Mancunian Night
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Images of Future Cities and UK Foresight Initiatives
Invited talk

Loitering With Intent: The Art & Politics of Walking
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Future Cities: palimpsest of the utopic imagination
Invited talk

Cheltenham Science Festival
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Cities of the Future
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

3rd OIKONET Housing Research Conference, Global Dwelling (Event)
Membership of committee

Future Cities: Tomorrow's World Today?
Invited talk

Bristol Festival of Ideas: The Festival of the Future City
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Being Human Festival
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Letters to the Mayor
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Model Agency: dynamic tools for architecture
Invited talk

Feedback Loops: digital design & fabrication in architecture
Invited talk

Film Architectures: Welcome to the Future, International Film Festival
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Intelligent Landscapes: Technological Drivers, Future Cities and the Art of Being Smart’
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

York Festival of Ideas
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

The Future of the Future
Invited talk

Integrative Thinking: Building Knowledge through Making in Architecture
Invited talk

Street Art & Urban Creativity (Journal)
Publication peer-review

The Architectural Model: an archaeology of application
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Israel Science Foundation (External organisation)
Membership of committee

Model Behaviour: dynamic tools for design
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Technological Advancements as a Driving Force for Change
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Intelligent Landscapes: data mapping, smart cities and the power of information
Invited talk

The Future of Cities: is there an art to being smart?
Invited talk

Computer Love: digital design and fabrication
Invited talk

Street Art & Urban Creativity (External organisation)
Membership of committee

Research Through Design: 21st Century Makers and Materialities (Event)
Membership of committee

Urbanism on the Move
Invited talk

2nd International Conference on Adaptation and Movement in architecture & International Conference on Innovation in Design and Fabrication (Event)
Membership of committee

AHRC (External organisation)
Membership of committee

Digital Fabrication in Architecture
Invited talk

Data Pining: digital urbanism, smart cities and the limits of information
Invited talk

Drawing On (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Lisbon Street Art & Urban Creativity International Conference (Event)
Membership of committee

The Design Journal (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture 2013 International Conference (External organisation)
Membership of committee

• Imagination Lancaster
• Institute for Social Futures Fellow
• Makers
• More than Human
• School of Architecture
• School of Design
• Space & Place