About Me

I am a STS scholar interested in sound and noise, confusions and hesitations, architecture and design, enriching concepts of error, and other misadventures of thought, and in nuisance and its social forms.

I am currently working as a postdoc on an ERC-funded project called Wavematters at Humboldt University in Berlin. In that project, I study sound, noise and electromagetics, and how those become and do not become objects of knowledge or politics. I am interested in how they generate contested public feelings. You can find our project website here: www.wavematters.eu. I have published several articles from this research on vibrations, spectres, confusions, listening, noise maps, analogies and mistakes.

I have two other projects. One is related to nuisances in the Anthropocene. How nuisances are on the rise in the absence of environmental regulations, their ambiguities as legal category and as public feeling or affect, and how their associated disputes provide means to study socialities around environmental issues.

The second project is provisionally entitled, Errances: and other misadventures of thought_. This project is a series of writings and reflections on other categories of thought that trouble the way in which Truth and Fact have come together to omit other ways of knowing or of experience. I am interested in confusions, erring, hesitations, vagueness, etc.. It follows Deleuze’s interest in “enriching our concepts of error” and is an inquiry into what we could call “misadventures of thought”.

I have also studied a building project. It ended up being a book called Variations of a Building. It is an ethnographic study of the various practices involved in making a building, and how they share in an act of creation. It follows how a world is put together and maintained for a building to exist. There are chapters on acoustics, on digital visualisations, on publics and politics, and on collaboration. It follows an Actor-Network Theory methodology, and translates STS sensibilities and concepts into architectural experiences and problems. (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-6802-2)

Previously, I was a teaching fellow at the University of Edinburgh (ESALA) and a part-time lecturer in the Department of Architecture at the University of Manchester. I completed my PhD there. I have taught courses on a variety of topics from a broad survey course in architectural theory and STS to courses on Organisation Studies, multi-species anthropology, environmental humanities, actor-network theory, ethnography and qualitative methods, among others.

I received my undergraduate degree in Political Science and English Literature at the University of Western Ontario (Canada), and a Masters of Arts in Theory & Criticism at the University of Western Ontario (Canada).