Stories-so-far: Doreen Massey archive project

Since 2023, Colin Lorne, Carry van Lieshout and Ben Newman (Open University) have been working on the Stories-so-far: Doreen Massey archive project with the overarching aim to open up Doreen Massey's archival materials as an educative and political resource for the future. 

The project combines slow, preparatory archival work with attempts to foster new public dialogues in order to keep thinking with Doreen Massey in this conjuncture. The overarching Stories-so-far project is guided by three interconnected themes:

1. Conjunctures: to situate Massey's archival materials within the specific places and moments, intellectual debates and political struggles through which her ideas were forged and circulated

2. Dialogues: to bring Massey's lesser known and unpublished work into contemporary debates through fostering collective dialogues with the archive, with particular emphasis on encouraging new and emerging scholars

3. Translations: to encourage wider public and political conversations with Massey's archive through generating new creative interventions and popular educative resources

In 2025, Colin Fuchs joined the research collective as an AHRC DTP Collaborative Doctoral Award PhD student (with Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers) and we are working with grassroots arts and culture organisation, Metroland Cultures, based in Kilburn, Brent, on an Antipode Right to the Discipline project entitled "Voices of Places: thinking creatively with Doreen Massey".