Michael Eades
@drmichaeleades.bsky.social
Head of Civic Engagement @GoldsmithsUOL. Into cities, festivals, engagement, research as practice. Formerly @BeingHumanFest. Writer and walker www.michaeleades.net
Terrific day at the Albany in Deptford for our mini Festival of Migration as part of @beinghumanfest.bsky.social. Bringing Goldsmiths researchers together with local residents and community partners to explore stories and histories of migration. A JOYOUS event in increasingly dark political times.
November 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Terrific day at the Albany in Deptford for our mini Festival of Migration as part of @beinghumanfest.bsky.social. Bringing Goldsmiths researchers together with local residents and community partners to explore stories and histories of migration. A JOYOUS event in increasingly dark political times.
Great evening yesterday at the Goldsmiths Prize ceremony. One of very few literary prizes that actually rewards risk taking and experimentation. CD Rose won this year for We Love Here Now... Always good to see a Mancunian lifting a literary trophy! @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Great evening yesterday at the Goldsmiths Prize ceremony. One of very few literary prizes that actually rewards risk taking and experimentation. CD Rose won this year for We Love Here Now... Always good to see a Mancunian lifting a literary trophy! @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social
Cobbled together Halloween costume. I’m supposed to be a highwayman but I’ve ended up looking more like an eighteenth century French peasant…. Either way, always good to be wearing a tricorne hat!
November 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Cobbled together Halloween costume. I’m supposed to be a highwayman but I’ve ended up looking more like an eighteenth century French peasant…. Either way, always good to be wearing a tricorne hat!
Urban edgeland walking out along the river Wandle to Morden Hall Park. Light industry and suburban sprawl giving way to wetlands, water meadows, sleepy rivers. In the right day, in the right light, this is a magical corner of London.
October 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Urban edgeland walking out along the river Wandle to Morden Hall Park. Light industry and suburban sprawl giving way to wetlands, water meadows, sleepy rivers. In the right day, in the right light, this is a magical corner of London.
River walking in Sheffield this week. Learning more about the incredible River Don Project led by Opus Independents - which is modelling what a Rights of Nature approach to urban river management looks like, taking the South Yorkshire bioregion as a starting point. Amazing work. www.theriverdon.org
October 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
River walking in Sheffield this week. Learning more about the incredible River Don Project led by Opus Independents - which is modelling what a Rights of Nature approach to urban river management looks like, taking the South Yorkshire bioregion as a starting point. Amazing work. www.theriverdon.org
Happy Friday from the Goldsmiths campus.
October 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Happy Friday from the Goldsmiths campus.
Renaissance sky over South London…
September 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Renaissance sky over South London…
Goldsmith juxtapositions. Lovely morning in the neighbourhood.
September 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Goldsmith juxtapositions. Lovely morning in the neighbourhood.
Mick Harvey and co raising the spirit of David Lynch at the Royal Festival Hall this evening! Absolutely stunning gig…
September 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Mick Harvey and co raising the spirit of David Lynch at the Royal Festival Hall this evening! Absolutely stunning gig…
South London sunset 👌
September 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
South London sunset 👌
Back in London and back to the things I love: art, engagement, urban nature… Lovely to be at the launch of ‘Street Waders’ by Anna Reading this morning. New public artwork in Lewisham celebrating urban rivers. A legacy output from Goldsmiths’ bit of Lewisham’s Borough of Culture year back in 2022!
September 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Back in London and back to the things I love: art, engagement, urban nature… Lovely to be at the launch of ‘Street Waders’ by Anna Reading this morning. New public artwork in Lewisham celebrating urban rivers. A legacy output from Goldsmiths’ bit of Lewisham’s Borough of Culture year back in 2022!
Innsbruck you absolute beauty! After a full day of rain the city switching it ON for our last evening here
September 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Innsbruck you absolute beauty! After a full day of rain the city switching it ON for our last evening here
Did some quite extreme hiking today in the alps. Pictures look impressive but I think I was literally whimpering at this point…
September 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Did some quite extreme hiking today in the alps. Pictures look impressive but I think I was literally whimpering at this point…
In the mountains, there you feel free..
September 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
In the mountains, there you feel free..
Up in the mountains and not missing London even slightly…
September 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Up in the mountains and not missing London even slightly…
Having a lovely time. Wish you were here…
September 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Having a lovely time. Wish you were here…
On the trail of Stefan Zweig in Salzburg (literally, in fact, as there’s a trail named after him). A writer who believed fiercely in pluralism and cosmopolitanism and who was hounded across Europe by book burning, racist, anti intellectual Nazis. Contemporary resonances here absolutely chilling…
September 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
On the trail of Stefan Zweig in Salzburg (literally, in fact, as there’s a trail named after him). A writer who believed fiercely in pluralism and cosmopolitanism and who was hounded across Europe by book burning, racist, anti intellectual Nazis. Contemporary resonances here absolutely chilling…
Time for a holiday…
August 31, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Time for a holiday…
Quietly cultivating a space of suburban ecological psychedelia…
August 23, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Quietly cultivating a space of suburban ecological psychedelia…
Only in Bloomsbury…
August 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Only in Bloomsbury…
Brilliant evening at the Class Festival Nature Prize ceremony, celebrating working class nature writing in a VERY swanky central London location. Congrats to all shortlisted writers and cudos to Natasha Carthew for setting up this important prize (and for making literary culture a lot less boring!)
July 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Brilliant evening at the Class Festival Nature Prize ceremony, celebrating working class nature writing in a VERY swanky central London location. Congrats to all shortlisted writers and cudos to Natasha Carthew for setting up this important prize (and for making literary culture a lot less boring!)
Hottest day of the year and somehow I’ve managed to volunteer myself to help out with Open Day on campus… Pray for me…
June 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Hottest day of the year and somehow I’ve managed to volunteer myself to help out with Open Day on campus… Pray for me…
Private view evening for Goldsmiths degree shows. Always a magical time, especially in the Berlin-like summer sunshine. Makes me feel really lucky to work here…
June 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Private view evening for Goldsmiths degree shows. Always a magical time, especially in the Berlin-like summer sunshine. Makes me feel really lucky to work here…