John has a multi-disciplinary academic background spanning architectural and social theory as well as creative practice, holding a BMus (Music) from Goldsmiths College and an MSc (Advanced Architectural Studies) from UCL. His ongoing research interest is in the production of the urban public sphere, linking performative and material cultural practices with analysis of spatial and technological infrastructures, having recently completed a PhD in Architectural Space and Computation at the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture entitled 'The Blog and the Territory: placing hyperlocal media and its publics in a London neighbourhood'. He is an Honorary Research Associate at UCL STEaPP, Director of the independent research centre Theatrum Mundi.