Samuel Merrill

Samuel Merrill is a postdoctoral researcher at Umeå University’s Digital Social Research Unit. His research focuses on memory, heritage and infrastructure, within a broadly conceived urban and digital ‘underground’ (spatial, political and cultural). You can read his blog at www.samuelmerrill.com and he tweets under @socmerrill.

Can memorialisation be a form of urban protest?

Perhaps the arch footpath of the demolished Heygate estate should be preserved, a reminder of the London that was.

By Oli Mould and Samuel Merrill

/ 4 Feb 2016