
By day, Nabil Al-Kinani is a built-environment professional and strategist with a keen interest in urbanism, placemaking, sustainable development and place vision. By night, he is a writer and producer that uses creativity to deliver works that draw focus on the relationship between spaces and stories. Other strands of his work includes the exploration of spatial politics, psychogeography, identity, culture and migration. His works include Privatise the Mandem to Free the Ends, a manifesto proposing a roadmap for the Mandem to collectively acquire land in the Ends using legislative tools such as Collective Enfranchisement and the Right to Buy, as a strategic counter to gentrification. Naming Pains is a campaign addressing the legacy of the 1924 British Empire Exhibition and its ongoing celebration in the built fabric of Wembley. Castles is a photo essay using 35mm film to reframe inner-city social housing estates as modern-day castles, celebrating their residents as kings and queens.