Tim Waterman
@tim-waterman.co.uk
Landscape, food, utopias, queer theory, imagination. Prof of Landscape Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Antifascist. Recent book: The Landscape of Utopia. At work on 'Reworlding: Planetarity & Future Imaginaries'. Real writer. No algorithms.
I do wish to be ungrateful. This is an average building but I love these crazy scuppers. They'll be lost under this greenwashing project, at least until it's removed when the living wall dies in a couple of years because we have laid off the maintenance staff for daft performances like this.
November 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I do wish to be ungrateful. This is an average building but I love these crazy scuppers. They'll be lost under this greenwashing project, at least until it's removed when the living wall dies in a couple of years because we have laid off the maintenance staff for daft performances like this.
Lucy Raven in the Barbican Curve gallery is superb. The film is 40 minutes long. Plan on watching it in full.
October 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Lucy Raven in the Barbican Curve gallery is superb. The film is 40 minutes long. Plan on watching it in full.
Take the test: Will the Tories/Reform deport you? They would deport me and I have full UK citizenship! ilr.dowu.uk
October 26, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Take the test: Will the Tories/Reform deport you? They would deport me and I have full UK citizenship! ilr.dowu.uk
Nordic Noir at the British Museum is fabulous and free of charge
October 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Nordic Noir at the British Museum is fabulous and free of charge
Seen in Fitzrovia near the BBC.
October 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Seen in Fitzrovia near the BBC.
Post a perfect album from the 90s ... this one's a collection of remixes. If you missed it in the 90s, get it now!
September 6, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Post a perfect album from the 90s ... this one's a collection of remixes. If you missed it in the 90s, get it now!
RIP Terence Stamp: a most illustrious career, with a crowning role as a trans woman in a low-budget comedy that had an immense positive impact in so many lives (and was seriously funny).
August 18, 2025 at 7:44 AM
RIP Terence Stamp: a most illustrious career, with a crowning role as a trans woman in a low-budget comedy that had an immense positive impact in so many lives (and was seriously funny).
Dear Architectural Review: This ain't a f**king forest.
August 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Dear Architectural Review: This ain't a f**king forest.
St Vincent at Somerset House. What a performer.
July 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
St Vincent at Somerset House. What a performer.
Meme sent to me by a brilliant scholar with whom I would LOVE to work 🤔😂😭
July 4, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Meme sent to me by a brilliant scholar with whom I would LOVE to work 🤔😂😭
Hooray! My short essay 'The Timespace of Queer Ecology' has just been published in Ri-Vista! And it's illustrated with adorable images from Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno! I'm over the moon! Please repost!! oaj.fupress.net/index.php/ri...
July 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Hooray! My short essay 'The Timespace of Queer Ecology' has just been published in Ri-Vista! And it's illustrated with adorable images from Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno! I'm over the moon! Please repost!! oaj.fupress.net/index.php/ri...
What's the difference between Trump and the Hindenburg?
One is an inflated, ultimately doomed Nazi gasbag; the other was a zeppelin.
One is an inflated, ultimately doomed Nazi gasbag; the other was a zeppelin.
July 2, 2025 at 9:51 AM
What's the difference between Trump and the Hindenburg?
One is an inflated, ultimately doomed Nazi gasbag; the other was a zeppelin.
One is an inflated, ultimately doomed Nazi gasbag; the other was a zeppelin.
One or the other of those benches is the one with the Kirsty MacColl dedication and lyric on it. At least that's where it was when I last spotted it. Also making Soho Square woker than it was in the 50s.
June 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
One or the other of those benches is the one with the Kirsty MacColl dedication and lyric on it. At least that's where it was when I last spotted it. Also making Soho Square woker than it was in the 50s.
Lunch today with my favourite Simpsonologist Karma Waltonen at the Boot and Flogger wine bar. The 'boot' was used to hold the wine bottle, and the 'flogger' was a mallet used to 'flog' the cork into the bottle. I will treat Karma much more gently.
June 26, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Lunch today with my favourite Simpsonologist Karma Waltonen at the Boot and Flogger wine bar. The 'boot' was used to hold the wine bottle, and the 'flogger' was a mallet used to 'flog' the cork into the bottle. I will treat Karma much more gently.
I've just learned about the Nubian vault, and its use in the amazing homes of the Musgum in Chad and Cameroon. How can I have spent years in architectural education and never seen this?(Rhetorical question--I know the answer)
June 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I've just learned about the Nubian vault, and its use in the amazing homes of the Musgum in Chad and Cameroon. How can I have spent years in architectural education and never seen this?(Rhetorical question--I know the answer)
This image sort of sums it up
June 21, 2025 at 8:54 AM
This image sort of sums it up
The Big Rock Candy Mountains were the hobo version of enduring Medieval folk utopias: mental escapes into fantasy land of plenty with lemonade springs and cigarette trees. Here's Bruegel's 1567 painting of the land of Cockaigne.
June 12, 2025 at 7:11 AM
The Big Rock Candy Mountains were the hobo version of enduring Medieval folk utopias: mental escapes into fantasy land of plenty with lemonade springs and cigarette trees. Here's Bruegel's 1567 painting of the land of Cockaigne.
Transcestry: 10 Years of the Museum of Transology in Granary Square is stuffed full of artifacts and is deeply, deeply moving. www.museumoftransology.com
May 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Transcestry: 10 Years of the Museum of Transology in Granary Square is stuffed full of artifacts and is deeply, deeply moving. www.museumoftransology.com
Apparently this plaque has been on the ceiling in the band room in Moscow High School (Idaho) for the last 40 years. I was the pianist for the orchestra and would lie on the floor and dream during sectional rehearsals. Marsha Folks, the orchestra teacher, put this up in my honour.
April 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Apparently this plaque has been on the ceiling in the band room in Moscow High School (Idaho) for the last 40 years. I was the pianist for the orchestra and would lie on the floor and dream during sectional rehearsals. Marsha Folks, the orchestra teacher, put this up in my honour.
Just putting our last bottle of American wine in the fridge. Won't have any more till the evil is over.
April 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Just putting our last bottle of American wine in the fridge. Won't have any more till the evil is over.
Here is Henry A. Giroux, writing in his 2nd edition of Border Crossings in 2005, the year after I left the US convinced it was descending into fascism, which is beyond dispute now.
April 13, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Here is Henry A. Giroux, writing in his 2nd edition of Border Crossings in 2005, the year after I left the US convinced it was descending into fascism, which is beyond dispute now.