Dr Anthony Powis

Biography

I am interested in the interrelation of spatial production, knowledge production, and climate production. My background is as an architect, working mostly on various types of public spaces (urban landscapes, museums, playgrounds) with muf architecture/art. I studied at Cardiff, Westminster, and the AA. My PhD (also at Westminster) was part of Monsoon Assemblages (http://www.monass.org), which looked at the interactions between rapid urban development, and changing monsoon climates. My thesis focussed on Chennai, South India, and its subterranean environment: looking at ways in which different people generate knowledge about groundwater, the kinds of knowledge that is produced through different practices, its limits, and the forms of environmental stewardship that these different knowledges generate. I am interested in more-than-human research methodologies, as well drawing as a research method. I have previously been an associate with Architecture sans Frontieres-UK, working with participatory design techniques, and my MA dissertation was about the production of space in protests. I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the project Architecture after Architecture: Spatial Practice in the Face of the Climate Emergency.