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Background: I'm an architect and lecturer at the Liverpool School of Architecture
My PhD was based on Nek Chand's Rock Garden, Chandigarh, India. The research was exhibited at the RIBA gallery in Liverpool, complete with exhibition catalogue.
Additional Research has also been undertaken on housing in Oldham and the visionary environment of Kevin Duffy. I have written an article on Kevin's work published in Raw Vision Magazine, no62.
publications and presentations        

Jan09 Authorship & Modernity in Chandigarh: the Ghandi Bhavan and the Kiran Cinema designed by Pierre Jeanneret and Edwin Maxwell Fry, The Journal of Architecture, Vol 14: Number 6 pages 687-713.

07 Nek Chand's Rock Garden and Le Corbusier in Chandigarh: reconsidering the primitive. South African Journal of Art History, Vol22, number 3, pages 116-137.

May 07            Delivered presentation to the Centre of Architecture and the Visual Arts [CAVA] on 'Site-specificity, Space and Cultural Meanings' and awarded the Associate Research Fellow status of the research group.
April 07            Published Monograph: Jackson, I & Bandyopadhyay, S, (2007) The collection, the ruin and the theatre: architecture, sculpture and landscape from Nek Chand’s Rock Garden, Chandigarh, Liverpool University Press.
April 07            Curator and designer of an exhibition: Nek Chand’s Rock Garden; on show at RIBA RENEW Rooms, Liverpool from 12th April – 11th May 2007 and to ‘tour’ India later this year. Funded by an AHRC wider dissemination grant.
April 07            Interviewed on BBC Asian Network Radio programme: Discussing Nek Chand’s Rock Garden and the research I have undertaken in India.
Jan 07            Editor and co-founder of the Journal, ‘design_blip’, an online academic journal investigating the process of design and process. ISSN 1753-4607 [in preparation]

Sept06-Jan07 Worked with CABE on design_liverpool_50 - a really interesting set of lectures and workshops aimed at raising the standards of Liverpool's built environment.
June 06             Presented research on ‘politicised territory and intentional ruins, the Rock Garden, Chandigarh’ at AHRC 'Cultural Spaces' conference at UCL/St. Mary’s.
June 06             Gave a lecture at the Bhavan Centre London, on the issues of recording and cataloguing ‘architectural visionary-environments’.
March 06             Presented research methodologies to staff at the Chandigarh School of Architecture, India.
March 06            Made, produced and edited a film about Nek Chand’s Rock Garden, shot on
location [edited version on www.youtube.com and http://www.nekchand.info  ]                        
March 06           Organised a month long field trip to Chandigarh, for a group of Liverpool School of Architecture undergraduate’s.
April 06 Presented research findings at the Association of Art Historians annual conference at Leeds University. Theme: Interpreting the art and architecture of ‘others’.
May 06 Gave presentation on research methodologies used in cataloguing the artefacts in India to the Interdisciplinary Forum at Liverpool University
Dec 05             An exhibition review published in Raw Vision Magazine, London [no. 53]
Oct 05             Held a solo exhibition line-drawings at the L-Issue Gallery, Liverpool.
Oct 05             Gave presentation to the Liverpool School of Architecture: ‘Interpreting ambiguous objects and collections: the construction of self-made museums’.
Nov 05             QuickTime Virtual-Reality model of Nek Chand’s Rock Garden produced as part of PhD research was exhibited at The Art Brut Collection Museum, Lausanne.
March 05           Organised a month long field trip to Chandigarh, for a group of Liverpool School of Architecture undergraduate’s.
April 05              Edited Volume: Jackson, I. (2005). Oldham: Seperate Development. Cities in Transition. T. Shakur [Editor], Open House Press
2005-        Author and developer of research website and artefact database http://www.nekchand.info [currently being rebuilt]
2003              Edited Volume: Jackson, I (2003) Politicised Territory: Nek Chand's Rock Garden. Picturing South Asian Culture. T. Shakur and K D'Souze [Editiors], Open House Press

2002            Refereed Article: Jackson, I (2002) Politicised Territory: Nek Chand's Rock Garden in Chandigarh, Global Built Environment Review 2( 2): 51-68