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- BIO: Trenton’s foremost preoccupations include unearthing the socio-political history of fences/railings - including when they shifted from keeping things in to keeping things out, the spaces in cities people have set out to make together, contemporary places of work, emotions in finance, the processes of creating and conceptualising ‘a home’ in a new city, the tension existing between danger & beauty embodied for example in aeroplanes and how social relations (dissolving of nation states and rise of cities) might change on earth with the colonisation of other planets. Trenton is also working on debates within inter-disciplinary urbanism around notions of ‘Darwinistic individual selfishness’ – or ‘Who Dares Wins Urbanism’ attempting to make apparent the predictable, though overlooked failures of individualism within and apparent across the 'leadership' of the centre, left and right.
Trenton has worked for over a decade in non-governmental organisations specialising in urban renewal, cultural and environmental programmes. He was Coordinator of the Thames Strategy – Kew to Chelsea, Strategic Project Manager at Cityside Regeneration and a Community Development Worker in North Kensington. Alongside his formal work he has continued to explore his questions about cities via his personal projects that have included installations in the public realm, film, guest editing and guest lecturing. Trenton has been active on the boards of the Westway Development Trust, London Citizens and Subtext. In 2007, with Deepa Naik, he formally established This Is Not A Gateway, a not-for-profit organisation that has set out to inject a criticality into discussions about cities via creating a platform for existing, though overlooked multi-disciplinary critical actors and provocateurs. In 2009 they established Myrdle Court Press to publish the work of critical urbanists from around the world. MCP’s first title was Critical Cities; Ideas, Knowledge & Agitation from Emerging Urbanists. Trenton is currently researching the socio-political history of fenced green spaces in London for a forthcoming book. This research is part of his attempt to find a way to go beyond the agreement that exists around ownership, specifically land ownership in the 21st Century.
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