Talk #145

Dan Dubowitz

Dan Dubowitz is Reader in Architecture, director of FLUX Atelier at Manchester School of Architecture and Visiting Professor of Research at the University of the Arts Helsinki. He practices as an Artist and Urbanist. His work draws from how artists think such as: ‘starting from not knowing’, ‘situated practices’ and ‘provocation’ to re-imagine property development and investment in the interest of planet, place and all people (not just some). Dan developed a cultural masterplanning approach to city making for five UK city-regions (1999-2015) and is currently an Arts and Humanities Research Council ‘Innovation Scholar’ investigating 'Cultural Masterplanning: New Methods for Developer-Led Urban Regeneration' (2023-26). As part of this he is seconded to the private property developer Landsec who lead on the urban regeneration of Mayfield in Manchester and other large scale city centre transformations across the UK. Dan is author of four monographs: ‘Wastelands’ (2009); ‘Fascismo Abbandonato’: the Children’s Holiday Camps of Mussolini’s Italy’ (2010), ‘Peeps’ (2011) and ‘Citizen Manchester’ (2014). He is currently working on an ‘Atlas of Megalomania’, and an ‘Urban Opera’.