John Bingham-Hall
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I am a researcher, writer, and cultural organiser based in Paris and Marseille. My current work focuses on the ways how climate adaptation strategies are transforming the cultures and politics of the urban public sphere, engaging critical humanities, creative research methods, and artistic works to address sonic, choreographic, and narrative dimensions of change. I draw on a training in music and urban studies, as well as a decade of work connecting arts and urbanism with Theatrum Mundi, to explore the complex dynamics that shape public life in cities through a series of cross-cutting threads including ecology, infrastructure, sound, movement, culture, and voice.

 

I work with universities, cultural organisations, and private practices to lead learning programmes, international knowledge exchange, and collaborative, cross-disciplinary research around these approaches. See my LinkedIn or Instagram for more, or email me to contact me about working together.


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Scores

A score is a guide for action with varying degrees of prescriptiveness or room for interpretation. It might be musical or choreographic, or a set of instructions for a walk with invitations to listen or move in particular ways. It might be text-based, or use graphic symbols to guide a performer in actions that cannot easily be represented in traditional notation.

These texts outline how we can think about scores at tools within urbanism.

Connecting my musical training to my research on the staging of public life, I have co-created a series of projects exploring the potential of scoring as a methodology for urban design and research. I have led workshops with architects and musicians – in Paris, Beirut, Belfast and London – exploring graphic notation as a tool for representing sound and movement in architectural plans. With students and general publics, I’ve enacted walking and listening scores – in Paris and Brussels – as ways to notice differently how ecologies shape sound and movement. And I’ve written and recorded scores for specific sites in Brussels and Rotterdam.

Another example of a caption. These texts outline how we can think about scores at tools within urbanism.
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