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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Culture

Culture, arguably, is publicness itself. It is what emerges from the ways we share the world and communicate in and about it. The arts are, of course, a huge part of this, but culture also includes the ways people eat, move, how they look.

This thread runs through two major research projects focused on the settings in which culture is produced – the urban backstage – and how its structures and conditions shape the public cultures of cities and places. I led these as Director of Theatrum Mundi, and built on them to publish essays and articles analysing the spatial politics of culture.

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Another aspect of this thread focuses on cultural institutions – represented by the concept of the stage where culture is performed – as places of public life and the making of shared realities. As well as organising research around the ways these spaces shape public life, I have been invited to write and speak on these questions.

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