Conor MoloneyPhD studentEmail: c.moloney@qmul.ac.ukRoom Number: Geography Building, Room 218Twitter: @conormoloProfileTeachingProfileMy professional background is in architecture urban design, masterplanning, regeneration and area-based planning policy. I have also worked in research on a range of built environment related topics, taught in design schools in Britain and across Europe, headed up a design advocacy organisation, and held a senior position in a sustainability social enterprise. linkedin.com/in/conormolo Research Interests: Cultural Geography; Urban Studies; Play; Performance; Urban Design; Urban Planning; Drawing PhD research: Pop-ups, Protests and Places: a cultural geography of the production, design and staging of public life in contemporary London Drawing on urban studies, cultural geography and critical scholarship on performance, relational aesthetics and participatory art, I examine the interests, discourses and practices behind the ‘ludic turn’ in the spaces of contemporary London. This research is co-supervised in the School of Geography and the School of English & Drama. London-based fieldwork is ongoing 2020-23, with an overseas institutional visit in Japan 2019 and thesis completion in 2024. Academic background Bachelor of Architecture (honours), University College Dublin MSc Cities, Space & Society (distinction), Department of Geography & Environment, London School of Economics MSc International Planning (distinction), Bartlett School of Planning, University College London Supervisors Regan Koch, School of Geography, QMUL Jen Harvie, Department of Drama, School of English & Drama, QMUL Funding London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership, +3 ESRC studentship https://liss-dtp.ac.uk Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Summer Programme, Doctoral Fellowship based at Rissho University, Tokyo, June-August 2019. Research Background ‘Sustainable Regeneration in Urban Areas’, member of Specialist Advisor Team to URBACT II Capitalisation Project, URBACT, 2014-15 ‘Iconic Architecture & Capitalist Globalization’, Research Assistant to Prof. Leslie Sklair, London School of Economics, 2002-06 ‘Yellow Space: shared space in post-conflict Belfast’, Researcher & co-curator, Building Initiative design advocacy group, University of Ulster, 2003-08 ‘Density & Urban Neighbourhoods in London’, Research Assistant to Prof. Ricky Burdett, London School of Economics, 2003-04 Languages (CEFR Level) German, French (C1-C2), Portuguese, Spanish (A2-B1), Japanese (A1-A2) Conferences & Events ‘Private makes Public: the domestic technologies of sharing in Lois Weaver’s Public Address Systems’, invited paper at Conference ‘The Age of Sharing? Practices of Sharing in Contemporary Media, Literature & Culture’, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany, March 2019 ‘Playing or being played? Turning the tables on ludic urbanism’, session paper at RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, August 2019 ‘A Long Table conversation on the English Constitution’, double session convenor at RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, August 2019 ‘Trust in Play’ European School of Urban Game Design, Training week participant, Technopolis, Athens, November 2019. ‘Playing or Being Played? Tokyo 2020 Games Volunteers and the new urban dramaturgy’, session paper at UCL conference ‘At the frontiers of the urban: thinking concepts and practices globally’, London, 10-12 November 2019. ‘Playing or Being Played? Ambivalence and Antagonism in the Tokyo 2020 Volunteer Programme’, session paper at web symposium ‘Relational Geographies of the Voluntary Sector’, University of Cardiff / University of Southampton, September 2020 ‘Ambiguity and ambivalence in London’s expanding field of play’, session paper at webinar ‘Cultures of Authenticity’, Centre for Research in Communication and Culture (CRCC), Loughborough University, October 2020 ‘From artificial hill to Artificial Hells: relational placemaking and regulatory hurdles at the Marble Arch Mound’, session paper at 13th Interpretive Policy Analysis Conference, June 2021 ‘Conviviality, materiality and performative assembly in contemporary London’s street based activism’, session paper at RC21 International Sociological Association Conference, July 2021 ‘Pop-ups and Honig’s “Public Things”’:session paper at Goldsmiths University of London conference City Public Space & Body, December 2021 ‘Dilemmas of Hospitality & Guestship’, session paper in‘Extending Hospitality’ study day at University of London in Paris (ULIP), May 2022 Invited Panel member, ‘Inside the Notebook’ session at RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Newcastle, August 2022 Memberships Postgraduate Fellow, Royal Geographical Society Past President, Architectural Association of Ireland (1999-2000) TeachingLondon Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership (Postgraduate) LISS289 Drawing for Scholars, Convenor since 2021 (online) LISS290 Drawing in Participatory & Collaborative Research, Convenor, 2020-21 (online) UCL Geography (Postgraduate) GEOG0137 Urban Imaginations, PGTA 2021-22 (in person) QMUL Geography (Undergraduate) GEG6150 New York – Nature & The City, Field Trip Staff 2021-22 (online) & 2022-23 (in person) GEG6148 Public Life of Cities, Teaching Associate 2020-22 (online) GEG5126 Cultural Geographies, Teaching Associate 2020-21 (online) GEG4106 Reinventing Britain, Liverpool Field Trip Staff 2019-21 (online) GEG5103 Geographical Research in Practice, Teaching Associate 2018-20 (in person, course essay marking) GEG5131 Contemporary London: Life in the Global Metropolis, Demonstrator 2018-19 (in person) GEG4004 Research Methods for Geographers and Environmental Scientists, Demonstrator, 2018-20 (in person) Architecture & Urban Design (Undergraduate & Postgraduate) Design Studio Lead / Studio Tutor at University College Dublin (1997-2001) Design Studio Visiting Critic / Lecturer / Tutor at Royal College of Art (2018), Dessau Institute of Architecture (2018), SS. Cyril & Methodius University Skopje (2018), Technical University Berlin (2017), Dublin Institute of Technology (2015), University College Dublin (2008), Queens University Belfast (2007), University of Ulster 2003-5), University College London (2004), University of Sheffield (2003). Research