public interventions is an interdisciplinary collaborative urban practice based in London.

Catalina Pollak Williamson runs public interventions. She is an architect, researcher and urban activist using participation, play and urban performance as methodologies to drive urban and social change. Her research and practice explore the potential of “play” as a critical tool for civic engagement. She currently teaches at the School of Architecture, University of East London and is completing her 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.