My research focuses on graffiti, street art and urban surfaces, and my interest is to understand the dynamic between surfaces and inscriptions, their spatial politics and their impact on ruban cultures.

I research graffiti and street art in relation to neoliberal urban governance agendas, between criminalisation, eradication, and commodification as part of the creative cities paradigm.

More importantly, I am interested in issues related to urban spatial production and the right to the city, and I am working on developing a theoretical framework to understand the right to the city by analysing surface inscriptions and regulatory frameworks: the right to the city is the right to the surface. 

I have developed a method of reading urban surfaces which I call surface semiotics (or wall interviewing). This is an original method to interpret inscriptions in-situ, which I use as a form of analytical visual method throughout my work. Approaches from art sociology, visual culture and legal geography also inform my work on the image of the city, urban property regimes, and issues of access and control of urban spaces.

I am interested in urban surfaces as spaces of collective political production and agency, and as key sites for the exploration of urgent notions such as the right to the city and the urban commons.