The Team
Inge Daniels
FIELDSITE: THE UK
Inge Daniels is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oxford. Her research interests include housing, atmosphere and the built environment. She has conducted several long-term ethnographies inside homes in Japan culminating in her 2010 monograph ‘The Japanese House’. Inge also has an ongoing interest in curation and exhibitions. She has curated an exhibition at the British Museum (2001) and her recent book 'What are exhibitions for? ' (2019) is based on an ethnography of visitors to her 2012 exhibition at the Geffrye Museum in London.
Gabriela Nicolescu
FIELDSITE: ROMANIA
Gabriela Nicolescu is a visual anthropologist and curator with research interests in ageing and care, migration, museum anthropology and exhibition making. She gained her PhD in Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and then worked on several projects as a curator and postdoctoral researcher at Goldsmiths and University College Cork (Ireland). She curated exhibitions in Austria, Hong Kong, Hungary, Republic of Moldova, Romania, United Kingdom and the Philippines.
Gabriela worked on Disobedient Buildings between 2020-2022.
Anna Ulrikke Andersen
FIELDSITE: NORWAY
Anna Ulrikke Andersen is a filmmaker and architectural historian interested in the way film could be used to explore the built environment and our experiences thereof, particularly fascinated with windows, trains, phenomenology, and more recently chronic illness and disability studies. She was a 2018/2019 Fellow at Harvard Film Study Center, a Visiting Scholar at Vanderbilt University 2019, and holds a PhD in Architectural Design from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Anna worked on Disobedient Buildings between 2020-2022.
Charlotte Linton
WEBSITE/DESIGN
Charlotte Linton is a designer and anthropologist whose research explores the social, environmental and economic relationships formed during the production of traditional craft. Her DPhil in Anthropology at Oxford is based on ethnography in Amami Oshima, Japan, where she has looked at the role that textiles play in sustaining rural social networks particularly in light of issues surrounding sustainability. A graduate of Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art, London, Charlotte has worked as a designer in the fashion industry in London, New York and Paris.
Anna Goonesekera Poloni
RESEARCH/ PHOTOGRAPHY/ WEBSITE
Anna is a photographer and visual anthropologist who is especially interested in time, space, and urban redevelopment. Their PhD in Anthropology at the University of Oxford was based on an ethnography in Sandy Row, a Protestant-Unionist district of Belfast, where they explored how the residents of a marginalised neighbourhood navigate and contest spatiotemporal inequality while generating a sense of community and belonging. Anna's work also focuses on the potentials of the visual, particularly photography, to serve analytical and conceptual aims.
Jane Devoy
VISUAL EDITOR/FILM
Jane Devoy is a filmmaker and audio describer. Jane’s short films have been supported by AHRC, Arts Council England, British Council and Film London. Her work has screened widely at international film festivals, on UK and Danish TV and as multi-screen installations. She trained at the Lodz Film School (PWSFTviT) and gained her PhD in Film by Practice at the University of Exeter/London Film School. She has taught on Filmmaking and Creative Writing programmes at the universities of Exeter and Essex. Her research interests include the everyday and parenthood, audio description as integrated creative practice, and participatory practice.
Susan Andrews
PHOTOGRAPHY
Susan Andrews studied psychology at UCL and photography at the Royal College of Art, London. She is a practicing photographer whose research interests focus on the boundaries between public and private worlds: the family and the home; the relationship between individual and cultural memory; and the photographic archive. Andrews is currently Emeritus Reader in Photography at the Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design, LMU where she curates the ‘East End Archive’ for which she co-authored the book, ‘Archive: Imagining the East End’ with Dr. Nicholas Haeffner. Her work has been published in collections such as Phaidon’s ‘Family - Photographers photograph their families’ and exhibited widely, including at The International Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, Seoul and The National Portrait Gallery, London. Andrews has worked on two books with Dr Daniels, ‘The Japanese House’ and ‘What are exhibitions for?’.