2026–ongoing


Photo: Alisdare Hickson, 2022, London. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Research Fellow at Graphic Design Histories for Creative Dissent: Archiving and Ethical Challenges
UoB | RCA | UKRI


https://www.graphicdissent.rca.ac.uk/

Investigating protest graphics across Brazil, South Africa, and the UK from 1950 to the present.

With Teal Triggs, Harriet Atkinson, Priscila Farias, Guilherme Altmayer, Deirdre Pretorius, Thandi Gamedze and Lee-Shae Sharnick-Udemans.

2025–ongoing

Co-convenor UAL Design Histories Research Network


https://ualdesignhistories.cargo.site/

Bringing together researchers, staff, and students interested in exploring design history in all its forms.

With Rujana Rebernjak.

2021–2022


Photo: Nádia Munduruku, 2022, Aldeia Bragança, Belterra. Source: Final Report—Building a Library for the Future.

Research, curation and translation for Building a Library for the Future with Royal College of Art and Munduruku people of the village of Bragança, Brazil


https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/
https://www.rca.ac.uk/research-innovation/
https://www.mundurukudebraganca.org/

With Teal Triggs and Celia Matsunaga (project leads), Matt Lewis, Cacique Domingos Munduruku and Matheus Almeida.

British Council, Crafting Futures Digital Collaboration Grants.

2016–ongoing


Photo: Lucas Valim, 2016, São Paulo.

Founder of The Spectacular Clinic—listening to creatives in the public realm. Including dozens of performances and workshops at indie-publishing fairs, a series of photogravures, a book, an exhibition at the Royal College of Art and an article in The Lacanian Review


Performances at Feira Miolos, Feira Dente, Biblioteca Mário de Andrade, Sesc Pompéia, Feira Ladeira, Casa de Francisca.

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