public interventions is a collaborative urban research-based practice based in London.

Catalina Pollak Williamson

I am an architect, academic and urban activist using socially engaged practice and participatory urban pedagogies to drive urban transformation. My research, teaching and practice explore Play as a critical design tool for co-producing radical urban imaginaries. These projects highlight my dedication to contributing to socio-spatial justice by challenging power hierarchies through a reflexive, relational and performative approach to urban research and social development practice.

I currently teach at the School of Architecture, University of East London and I am completing my PhD at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London.

Publications:

Pollak Williamson, C. (2022) ‘Things we hold dear’. Airea: Arts and Interdisciplinary Research, (3), 5-16. https://doi.org/10.2218/airea.5616

Pollak Williamson, C. (2021) ‘‘Fountain’, from Victorian necessity to modern inconvenience: Contesting the death of public toilets’, Urban Studies, 59(3), pp. 641–662. doi: 10.1177/0042098021994705.

Pollak Williamson, C. (2015) Outsider: Public Art and the Politics of the English Garden Square, common-editions, London.

Pollak, C. (2014) ‘Phantom Railings’, ARQ 88 - Heritages/Patrimonios, Santiago Chile.