Constance Smith is a senior lecturer (associate professor) in social anthropology at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research explores the materialities and temporalities of architecture, infrastructure, and urban change in the United Kingdom and East Africa. She is currently leading a long-term project on high-rise urban landscapes and the afterlives of housing disasters, with a focus on the Grenfell Tower fire in London and a series of housing collapses in Nairobi. She has a particular interest in participatory and practice-led research in collaboration with artists, communities and urban practitioners.