For London Festival of Architecture 2010, and in collaboration with artist Richard Beard, he exhibited in a suburban front garden a tower for use by urban foxes. The tower, along with night video footage of foxes climbing the tower, toured a number of venues in the UK and was a prize winner at the Cube Centre for the Urban Built Environment, Manchester and the theme of a Ted talk in 2016.

Another body of research (ongoing since 2013) focuses on the view from the highway in England. Outputs resulting from this include a performance (RCA, London, 2014) an online artwork Speedscaping,  a photo essay Speedscaping (In: Mackay, R. 2015. When Site Lost the Plot, Urbanomic) and a documentary style  artwork (The Mobile Landscape, Stanley Picker Gallery 2015). In 2015, he was commissioned to design a permanent public artwork, Futuro Estate, for the Al Majaz Waterfront in Sharjah, UAE.

His doctoral thesis, Indifference. Art, Liberalism and the Politics of Place, (2015) examines the legacy of classical liberal thought in contemporary art commissioning. Through a series of cross readings between philosophy, aesthetics and political geography, it traces a relationship between place making art practices and classical liberalism’s conceptualisation of the way territory might function in a market society. In tandem with this enquiry, and by way of methodological tool for the interrogation of spatial politics, the thesis also develops a philosophy of indifference. It contends that indifference, alongside disinterestedness and objectivity, should be understood as part of an historical attempt to develop a critical modern subject that might transcend the self and disrupt both public and private power. By extension, it asks whether indifference might serve as part of an artistic strategy – namely the artist’s indifference to place – to negotiate and contest the cultural forces that market place for the consolidation of private advantage.

This research has implications for arts policy and funding, for understanding the role that art can play in public life, and for the sociology of the built environment more broadly – of cities, suburbia and rural regions.