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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Mobilizing Peripheries

A virtual field trip to the Porte de Bagnolet interchange on the Boulevard Périphérique, Paris


How could sound, film, and performance, work together to make a virtual encounter with a place a possibility for an expanded imaginary of its sensorial conditions and capacities?

This film was born from a cross-cultural exchange between the landscape architecture students of CalPoly Pomona, University of Los Angeles, and interdisciplinary teams in France who were invited by Rennie Tang to explore peripheral landscapes through embodied modes of site research. In the context of Covid, the films proposed new modes for the architectural site visit, an essential part of the design process, but one made impossible during the pandemic. They were presented to students at the beginning of a remote design brief focused on the interchange and the spaces within it