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Dr. James O'Leary is an architect, installation artist, and academic at University College London's Bartlett School of Architecture. As founding Programme Director for the Situated Practice MA (2017-2024), he has shaped postgraduate education in site-responsive architectural practice. His career spans design practice, academic positions at Chelsea College of Art and Royal College of Art, and collaborative work with Kristen Kreider in Kreider + O'Leary.
Research & Expertise:
- Specializes in post-conflict urbanism through the Peacewall Archive documenting Belfast's division structures
- Develops interface architecture methodologies for politically sensitive sites
- Explores material poetics across installation, film, and writing
- Examines urban archives through drawing, video, and multi-channel installation
Publications & Projects:
- Authored 2025 monograph Ungovernable Spaces on community resistance in contested territories
- Created Thirteen Points, Expanded (2018) analyzing Belfast peace wall material culture
- Developed Video Shakkei (2010) applying Japanese borrowed landscape principles to global sites
- Produced This Is the Interface (2017) media archaeology of Belfast's urban conflict systems
Academic Contributions:
- Recipient of TECHNE Doctoral Scholarship (2014) and multiple UCL Bartlett Research Fund awards
- Doctorate in Architecture (University of Brighton, 2021)
- Develops hybrid art-architecture curricula integrating performance and spatial analysis
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