Mónica Degen

Selected Media and Events

Speaker at “Researching Urban Aesthetics: the entanglements between embodiments and materialities in cities” Beyond Materiality Symposium, Swedish Institute of Classical Studies, 5-6 June 2025.

Panel discussant for “Connected Environments: Place & Spaces Between”, Kinda Studios, Soho House, November 2024.

Podcast for Mediapolis Now, November 2023.

Podcast for A is for Architecture, Bloomsbury Publishers, July 2023.

Podcast for Visual Politics Research Programme, University of Queensland Australia, December 2022.

Quoted in MIT Review The Urbanism Issue "Why sounds and smells are as vital to cities as the sights"

Presented at Brunel Community Conversations: Reimagining Uxbridge High Street, May 2022. Listen HERE

Launched the Museums, Cities and Cultural Power Pamphleteerat the Museum of London with UCL Urban Lab, attended by over 50 individuals from across the academic and professional urban and museum sector.

Panelist at launch discussion World Capital Exhibition by Felicity Hammond, Arebyte Gallery London, April 2019.

Organised and presented the workshop “Sensory Smithfield” with Museum of London Management Board and Architects in charge of the New Museum of London.

Organised AHRC funded International Conference “Sensory Cities” in London which brought together museum curators, urban planners, architects, and academics, March 2017.

Report launch & workshop “Sensory Smithfield” at the Museum of London with curators and architects involved in the development of the New Museum of London.

Organised AHRC funded International Conference “Sensory Cities” in London which brought together museum curators, urban planners, architects, and academics, March 2017

Workshop “Sensory Cities”, Cologne City Museum, which brought together museum curators, architects, community activists, planners and policy makers, March 2016.

Report launch “Women involved in street sex work in the UK: An analysis of service need and provision”, UTurn Women’s Centre London, which brought together 3^rd sector, local politicians and community activists.

Workshop “Sensory Cities”, Centro de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona, which brought together museum curators, architects, community activists, planners, branding experts and policy makers (June 2016).

Conference & workshop “Timescapes of Urban Change: Barcelona – London a regeneration comparison” funded by British Academy in collaboration with Urban Lab UCL, Urban Salon and Brunel University, which brought together community activists, architects, urban planners and policy makers, Nov 2016.

Organised public event with Iain Sinclair & workshop “Timescapes of Urban Change: Time and the City”, in collaboration with the Centro de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona, which brought together writers, community activists, architects, urban planners and policy makers. BA Fellowship output, Nov 2016.

Workshop “Sensory Cities”, Museum of London, which brought together museum curators, architects, placemakers and visualisers. AHRC grant output, Oct 2015.

Exhibition entitled “Visualising Atmospheres: Digital Placemaking in the 21^st Century”, The Building Centre, London. ESRC grant output, 19-31 Aug 2013.

Workshop “Architectural Atmospheres”, The Building Centre, which brought together architects, visualisers, placemakers and planning advocates. ESRC grant output, Aug 2013.

Interview on the privatisation of public space for the TV programme “Grandes Historias” Hispan TV.