Call for Participants // Urban Surfaces: Graffiti, Posters and Visual Governance in the City

Urban Surfaces: Graffiti, Posters and Visual Governance in the City

Are you an academic, researcher or practitioner in the public or private sector whose work engages with urban surfaces? We are inviting expressons of interest to attend our 1.5-day workshop in Melbourne, Australia, on 3-4 December 2025! Please see the attached call for participants for more details, and send your expression of interest to us via this Google form by Friday 19 September. Outcomes will be announced no later than 29 September. The workshop is organised by the Urban Surfaces Research Network and funded by the Urban Studies Foundation. We particularly welcome early career scholars, and travel bursaries are available for those in the region.

Deadline to apply: 19 September 2025

Workshop dates: 3-4 December 2025

Location: Melbourne Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne, Australia

This is the first of three events in the Urban Studies Foundation seminar series “Walls speak. Are you listening? A research agenda for urban surfaces”. The following workshops will take place in Nicosia, Cyprus (May 2026) and Uppsala, Sweden (August 2026).

The Urban Surfaces Research Network (USRN) is an international multi-disciplinary group of scholars, artists, and practitioners interested in the roles of surfaces as spaces of urban communication, governance, and political contestation. We explore how surfaces are designed, managed, valued, and contested as public assets, to enrich the diversity of public expression in global cities. 

We look forward to hearing from you!Tom, Sabina and Konstantinos

Tom Ward  (he/him)

PhD Candidate Doktorand 

Department of Human Geography Kulturgeografiska instiutionen

Uppsala University

Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10

Box 513751 20 Uppsala

Sweden

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