Andrew Harris, USI visiting scholar
Andrew Harris, USI visiting scholar and associate professor in geography and urban studies and co-director of the Urban Laboratory at University College London, and Martine Drozdz, associate researcher in politics, markets and urban worlds at the Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés.
Multi-stories: Estate interventions in London and Paris
This lunchtime seminar will share and discuss a recent ‘urban pamphleteer’, Multi-stories: Estate interventions in London and Paris, edited by Martine Drozdz, Andrew Harris and Nathaniel Télémaque.
This pamphleteer, produced in both English and French versions, documents and explores experimental interventions in the way the everyday life of multi-storey social housing in London and Paris is represented and understood. Interspersing contributions from across these two cities, the issue foregrounds approaches that develop innovative intersections across visual, ethnographic and historical methods. The pamphleteer brings together writers, photographers, academics, artists and activists and features text, photographs, artworks, postcards, film-stills, oral history and graphics. It is accompanied by two rectangular fold-out posters featuring a selection of images from its contributors.
Martine Drozdz (LATTS, Paris) and Andrew Harris (University College London), will detail and discuss how and why this publication was developed. They will explore how Multi-stories builds on and extends recent interest in vertical urban life, seeks to help re-imagine the widespread past and present stigmatization of social housing in Paris and London, develops more creatively-orientated approaches to forms of urban comparison and is conceived as part of older traditions of pamphleteering.
Practical details
- When: Tuesday 16 September 2025, 12.30 - 2 p.m.
- Where: UAntwerp Stadscampus, room S.D.328, Grote Kauwenberg 18