Helen Stratford

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FEMINIST PERFORMATIVE ARCHITECTURES: making place in & with public space
Helen Stratford is a socially engaged artist-architect, writer & researcher with a PhD in Performative Architectures from Sheffield University. Developed through her inter-disciplinary practice, embracing performance, art, architecture, ethnography & civic action, her thesis expands performativity, placemaking & participation. Recent publications: A Day with A Duck & Collective Performing Informed by her experience of chronic pain, she is currently exploring crip time (en)counters with public space.

PUBLIC S/PACING: Bloc Projects Sheffield 2024 V&A London 2025-7 This project explores props & prompts that re-encounter, subvert, or ‘crip’, public spaces built on expectations of hyper-productivity & able-bodiedness.

RESTING CONVERSATIONS : London Festival of Architecture 2023
A space designed with Raquel Meseguer Zafe that hosts quotes from people living with invisible disabilities & chronic illnesses, alongside gentle instructions that invite people to pause, rest & lie down.

INCLINE / RECLINE / DECLINE: ways to not necessarily walk 2022
A gentle score written with Idit Nathan in The Walkbook: Recipes for Walking & Wellbeing by C. Hind, et al., part of Walking Publics/Walking Arts: walking, wellbeing & community during COVID-19.

FURTHER AFIELD: YORKSHIRE SCULPTURE PARK 2021
A series of permanent sculptures installed at Yorkshire Sculpture Park . Developed with Idit Nathan.

Image: Documentation image of Public S/Pacing research performance 2024 (© Julian Hughes)