My research lies at the intersection of urban studies, political ecology, and design studies, and examines how poverty and inequality, built and natural environments, and art and design intersect in contemporary cities. Grounded in long-term ethnographic fieldwork and a strong commitment to mixed-methods inquiry, I combine qualitative, visual, and spatial approaches to analyse how people and institutions shape, inhabit, and contest urban environments.

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Over the past decade, I have conducted multi-sited research in Europe, Latin America, and the United States, tracing the entanglements of poverty, art/design, and urban governance. Alongside a range of projects on migration, local governance, DIY practices, and sustainability, I have developed three long-term research programmes: on economy, organisation, and time–space on the street (doctoral research); on homelessness and the post-socialist city (HOBOhemia); and on art and design in Colombia and Czechia (SURBANIN).

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More recently, my work examines macromurals—large-scale participatory murals in popular territories—as both objects of governance and instruments of ecological negotiation. This research explores how aesthetic practices mediate relations between communities, environments, and institutions, and how art becomes a site where politics, ecology, and urban policy converge.