Reconstructing the American Dream

Ella Harris is an independent creative researcher who specializes in ‘crisis cultures’ and creative methods. Her previous publications include Rebranding Precairty (2020) and Encountering the World with i-Docs (2025).

Mel Nowicki is a Reader in Urban Geography at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her research focuses on people’s lived experience of housing crisis in a range of contexts. Her first book, Bringing Home the Housing Crisis: Politics, Precarity and Domicide in Austerity London was published in 2023.

Tim White is a researcher and writer interested in housing, cities and inequality. He is currently an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Free University of Berlin, and a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Cian Oba-Smith is an Irish Nigerian photographer born and raised in London. His work focuses on communities and subcultures around the world with a particular interest in approaching subjects that are often misrepresented with a view to presenting them in an alternate light. The relationship between human experience and environment is at the core of his projects.