Shuv-it: Urban Skateboarder Tactics and the Right to the City Part 2 Dissertation 2026 Daniel Osler Norwich University of the Arts Norwich | UK This dissertation explores the contested territories of the city, specifically focusing on the tension between institutional strategies of exclusion and the subcultural tactics of deterritorialization. Using the vocabulary of skateboarding manoeuvres, namely the grind, shuv-it, manual, ollie, and flip, as conceptual frameworks for examining the skateboarder's spatial practices, I investigate the transition from the proper place of the designer and institution to the practised space of the skateboarder. Through case studies drawn from my own experiences of skateboarding across sites ranging from the award-winning Norwich University of the Arts Riverside Building to Triangle Plaza in Osaka, Japan, I argue that the skateboarder is not a passive consumer of the city, but a citizen who challenges established spatial boundaries and institutional forms of control.To examine this spatial conflict, my position is informed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's theory of territorialization, and the relationship between smooth and striated space, alongside Michel de Certeau's sociology of everyday life. De Certeau's distinction between institutional strategies and everyday tactics resonates with Deleuze and Guattari's metaphor of chess and Go as contrasting spatial logics. These contrasting fields provide a framework for examining the urban practices of skateboarding. Tutor(s) George Themistokleous