Matthew Gandy is a cultural, urban, and environmental geographer and an award-winning documentary filmmaker. His research interests span landscape, infrastructure, biodiversity, epidemiology, and multisensory methodologies. In his first film Liquid city (2007) he explores cultural and political dimensions to water and urban infrastructure in Mumbai, with a particular emphasis on the use of interviews interspersed with everyday life and urban landscapes. His most recent film Natura Urbana: the Brachen of Berlin (2017) also uses interviews but draws on extensive archival material to explore the post-war history of Berlin through a botanical lens.
Selected Publications:
"Chennai flyways: birds, biodiversity, and ecological decay"
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25148486221142491
"Ghosts and monsters: reconstructing nature on the site of the Berlin Wall"
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tran.12562
Natura urbana: ecological constellations in urban space (MIT Press, 2022)
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/natura-urbana