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Malcolm Miles Research Cluster
Curriculum Vitae:
Current position: Reader in Cultural Theory, Faculty of Arts, University of Plymouth.
I co-ordinate the Faculty of Arts research methods training programme for research students; co-ordinate the Critical Spaces research group on .contemporary art and radical social change; and organise research seminars and symposia with international participation. My current research areas are the relation of environmentalism to contemporary visual culture, and the uses of critical theory in contemporary urban and cultural discourses. I am currently developing material for publication in two books: Building Hope: alternative settlements and urban utopias and Cities and Cultures, a critical introduction, both contracted by Routledge. My main publications are Art, Space & the City (Routledge 1997), The Uses of Decoration: essays in the architectural everyday (Wiley 2000) and Urban Avant-Gardes (Routledge, 2004). I am co-author of The Consuming City (Palgrave, 2004), and co-Editor of The City Cultures Reader (Routledge 2000, 2nd ed 2003), series co-Editor of Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism, and acting Editor of the European Journal of Arts & Higher Education,(on-line), a member of the Editorial Board of Art, Design & Communications in Higher Education, and a Board Member of the Landscape Research Group.
Education:
I gained a Dip AD in painting at Chelsea School of Art (1967-71, converted to CNAA BA Hons 1975), studied art history as a post-graduate at Chelsea (1971-2), and was awarded a doctorate by Oxford Brookes University (School of Architecture, Jan. 2001).
Experience:
I taught at West Surrey College of Art & Design (1972-87), the Kent Institute of Art & Design (1987-89), City University (1993-4), Portsmouth University (1994-6), Chelsea College of Art and Design (1996-7), and Oxford Brookes University (1997-9). I was a consultant on arts development to the NHS Executive (1989-93), chaired the Arts & Entertainment Training Council (1993-5), and have been External Examiner, MA in European Cultural Policy, de Montfort University (1999-2004), MA Art & Society, University of Gloucestershire (1998-2002), and BA Art, Design and Media, University of Portsmouth (2000-2004). I have examined 7 doctorates externally. Refereed conference papers include: Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia (2003) and New York (2001), Association of Art Historians, Oxford (2001), Cities & Consumption, Bauhaus University, Weimar (2001); strand co-ordinator: European League of Institutes of Art biennial conference, Barcelona (2000); recent keynote papers include: The City and the Grass Roots (Stavanger, 2004), and Public Realm/Public Authorship (University of Warwick, 2003). I will be giving a keynote paper to the conference ‘Art and the City: Postwar Interactions in the Urban Realm’, University of Amsterdam, May 2006.
Key Publications:
- Urban Avant-Gardes: art, architecture & environmentalism, London, Routledge, 2004; .
- The Uses of Decoration: Essays in the Architectural Everyday (Chichester, Wiley, 2000);
- Art, Space & the City (London, Routledge, 1997; [Korean edition, Seoul, Hakgojae, 2000;
Chinese edition, Taiwan, Chuanshing, 2000); Spanish translation (1 chapter) in Interferences: context local, Documents, Barcelona, Certamen d’art contemporani, 2002 pp46-61]
- The Consuming City, co-authored with Steven Miles, Basingstoke, Palgrave 2004.
- New Practices, New Pedagogies, ed., London, Routledge, 2005
- Urban Futures (co-ed. with Tim Hall, London, Routledge, 2003);
- The City Cultures Reader (co-ed with Tim Hall and Iain Borden, London, Routledge, 2000, 2nd revised edition 2003)
Chapters in Books:
- ‘A Green aesthetic: after Kant the deluge’, in Groundworks – environmemtal collaboration in contemporary art, (ed. G Kester, Pittsburgh (PA), Carnegie Mellon University, 2005), pp68-79
- ‘Aesthetics and Engagement – interested interventions’, in Ecological Aesthetics: Art in Environmental Design: Theory and Practice, (H Strelow, Berlin, Birkhauser, 2004) pp202-207
- ‘Drawn and Quartered: El Raval and the Hausmannization of Barcelona’, in City of Quarters: urban villages in the contemporary city, (D Bell and M Jayne, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2004) pp37-55
- ‘Cafe-Extra: Culture, Representation and the Everyday’ in Beyond the Museum: Art, Institutions, People (I Cole and N Stanley, Oxford, Museum of Modern Art, 2000), pp30-37
- ‘Art in Public Spaces’ in Design Professionals and the Built Environment (P Knox, Chichester, Wiley, 2000);
- ‘A Game of Appearances – public art and urban development’, in The Entrepreneurial City (T Hall and P Hubbard, Chichester, Wiley, 1998);
- ‘Living Lightly on the Earth’ in Non-Plan: essays on freedom, participation and change in modern architecture and urbanism, (J Hughes and J Sadler, London, Heinemann, 2000).
Referred Journals:
- ‘Interruptions: Testing the Rhetoric of Culturally Led Urban Development’, Urban Studies, vol. 42, 5 / 6 pp889-912
- ‘Ghostly Pasts, Spectral Futures’, Space & Culture, 11 / 12, pp106-122, 2002
- ‘Viral Art’, Journal of Visual Art Practice, vol 1 #2, pp71-79, 2002
- ‘Picking Up Stones: Design Research and Urban Settlement’, Design Issues, vol 17, #2, 2002
- Post-Modernism and the Art Curriculum, Journal of Art & Design Education, vol. 18, pp27-32, 1999
- ‘Another Hero?’ Paralllax, 5, pp125-135, 1997
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