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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City as stage for ecological transitions

Experimentation workshop dedicated to public space as the scene of changing cultures of public life.


Across two academic years, in 2024 and 2025, I led an transdiscplinary class entitled Staging Ground: city as stage for ecological transitions, in connection with the residency programme Staging Ground.

 

The participants used the city as a field of action and research, mobilizing elements of staging (sound, choreography, narrative, infrastructure) to explore the performative and sensory dimensions of new cultures and conflicts in public urban life as they are transformed by climate adaptation.

 

As well as classroom sessions, the programme consists of walks and on-site workshops engaging scoring and speculative fiction to explore expanded methods for noticing and documenting public life. In connection with the LINA European Architecture Programme, LINA fellows Dimitri Szuter, Melissa Harrison, and Neo-futuristic Walks were invited to lead these.

 

In 2025, the programme concluded with a exhibition at Les Arches Citoyennes, in which students presented sculpture, sound, video installations, and participatory mapping works focused on the interactions of bodies and urban environments.

Documentation

Thinking with the Halprins
Workshop with Dimitri Szuter

 

Common Sense Common Space
Workshop with Melissa Harrison

 

Bodies of Water
Walkshop with Neo-futuristic Walks

 

Allez à la goutte qui s’écoule
Exhibition at Les Arches Citoyennes

 


Images