The 2025 Sociological Bulletin of the Czech Sociological Association has just been published, with home as its central theme. I contributed a short essay (Domov mezi "slumem" a nocležištěm) in which I reflect, through the literature on informal urbanism and the knowledge produce on it, on whether the way we--as researchers, but also as a broader public--think and write about various homeless encampments in Czechia fully realizes their empirical and theoretical potential. I ar

I had the privilege of spending a day at the Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) at Leuphana University Lüneburg . While presenting at the workshop “Artscapes and Radical Ecology in the Urbanocene: Theories and Praxis in Dialogue,” I had the chance to share the first ideas from my forthcoming book project. Many thanks to Tijen Tunali for organizing the event and to Thomas Krutak for all the help with practical matters, and to all the speakers— Tijen, Oleksandra

I’m happy to share that Urban Surfaces Research Network, Volume 6 is now published and available online open access . The booklet brings together all contributions from the 6th workshop and offers a great snapshot of current thinking on urban surfaces. Many thanks to the organisers for putting it together — what a fantastic group to be part of! Foto: S. Andron.

Such an honour to be among the great scholars invited to the Urban Surfaces Research Network 6th International Workshop . In my talk, I discussed why we should understand macromurals not as flat surfaces, but as volumetric territories—spaces with material depth, height, folds, and edges, where humans and non-humans together co-create the very surface of the artwork and the project. It was inspiring to listen to and learn from colleagues approaching urban surfaces from so many

So happy that my paper on the macromural La Mariposa has finally been published ! It’s part of the special issue "Durable Governance...