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Theatrum Mundi (TM) was founded and based at LSE Cities since 2012 by Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology at the LSE and New York University. It is a network that forges links between people from the performing and visual arts and those working within built environment disciplines. TM has since October 2017 been established as an independent charitable organisation and is now based at Somerset House.
During TM’s time at LSE Cities it brought together collaborators in diverse settings across the world – workshops, competitions, intimate discussion and public debate – to afford challenging, vulnerable provocation between thinkers and practitioners addressing the condition, inequalities, and design-politics of urban culture. Its aim was to invigorate city-making and its relation to culture in the twenty-first century.
DirectorAdam Kaasa
Chair of the Advisory CommitteeRichard Sennett
Project coordinatorDom Bagnato
ResearchersJohn Bingham-Hall, Kiera Blakey, Elisabetta Pietrostefani
Project PartnerNew York University
LSE Cities Events
25 February 2017 | The Quito Papers: towards the open city (Beijing)
31 January 2017 | The Quito Papers: towards the open city (London)
7 December 2016 | The Quito Papers: towards the open city (Paris)
4 October 2016 | Designing Respect Exhibition
18 August 2016 | Tania Bruguera and Saskia Sassen: In Conversation
20 August 2015 | Spaces for Literacy
15 June 2015 | Designing the Urban Commons
11 June 2015 | Designing Commons, Defining Commons
25 March 2015 | Designing the Urban Commons: Lessons from the Field
25 March 2015 | Ideas Competition: Designing the Urban Commons
28 February 2015 | Theatrum Mundi LSE Literary Festival discussion
27 November 2014 | Public lecture to celebrate Haworth Tompkins RIBA Stirling Prize 2014
1 October 2014 | Film Season: City, Religion, Capitalism
10 August 2014 | City, Religion, Capitalism: Turning Points for Civilisation
3 April 2014 | CITY RELIGION CAPITALISM
3 October 2013 | Negotiating spaces: design for knowing
25 May 2013 | Embodied City – Mit Kunst Stadt entwickeln
23 May 2013 | NightSeeing™
20 April 2013 | Spaces-in-Between: The City Becoming Ideas Camp
2 March 2013 | Between Curatorial and Urban Practice
11 December 2012 | Music and Architecture: Rhythm and Urban Space (London)
12 November 2012 | Music and Architecture: Harmony and Harmonious (London)
13 October 2012 | Places for Free Speech in the City (New York)
12 October 2012 | Presence and Absence in the City (New York)
23 June 2012 | Expressive Urbanism (London)
5 June 2012 | Social Movement: Designing for Free Speech (New York)
28 May 2012 | The Architecture of Sound: Turning the Inside Out (London)
4 May 2012 | The Architecture of Sound: Ambiance and Presence (London)
15 April 2012 | Light and the City: Culture, Design and Industry (Frankfurt)
10 April 2012 | Social Movement: Stage and Street (New York)
Conferences
26 January 2013 | Frankfurter Positionen, Frankfurt LAB, Frankfurt. Richard Sennett and Axel Honneth discussed ‘Recognition and Presence’.
8 November 2012 | ‘Trading Style’, exhibition at Weltkulturen Museum on display until 31 August 2013, Frankfurt.
Presentations
24 November 2012 | ‘Making Collective Values Visible’, 2012 Venice Biennale for Architecture. A co-organised event with weareherevenice.
Public lectures
2 November 2012 | ‘Common Ground: Between Urban and Art Practice’, 2012 Venice Biennale for Architecture.
13 Oct 2017 | Theatrum Mundi established as an independent charity at Somerset House
10 May 2017 | Theatrum Mundi opens new Designing Politics exhibition in London
7 Feb 2017 | Adam Kaasa contributes to new Walking Cities book
18 Jan 2017 | John Bingham-Hall publishes new article in Architectural Design journal
16 Jan 2017 | Adam Kaasa to speak on Designing Politics at the Museum of Architecture
16 Dec 2016 | Theatrum Mundi to co-host British Sociological Association seminar on inequality in design
15 Dec 2016 | Theatrum Mundi hosts round table on virtual culture and the city
7 Dec 2016 | Quito Papers film and discussion series launches tonight in Paris
4 Oct 2016 | Theatrum Mundi Designing Respect exhibition opens in Rio de Janeiro
5 Sep 2016 | Theatrum Mundi event explores migration and the politics of urban space
1 Aug 2016 | Adam Kaasa Visiting Professor at University of Toronto
2 Jun 2016 | Adam Kaasa to deliver paper on domestic monumentality
20 Apr 2016 | Adam Kaasa to speak on Theatrum Mundi topics
9 Feb 2016 | New Theatrum Mundi essay on public space
3 Feb 2016 | Theatrum Mundi announces new director, 2016 programme
15 Jun 2015 | Designing the Urban Commons Exhibition featured in The Guardian
29 Jul 2014 | Theatrum Mundi at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2014
14 Apr 2014 | Theatrum Mundi hosts CITY RELIGION CAPITALISM with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
6 Feb 2014 | Theatrum Mundi launches “Designing for Free Speech” challenge
15 Jul 2013 | Richard Sennett at Berliner Festspiele
4 Jul 2013 | Theatrum Mundi in Icon Magazine
31 May 2013 | Richard Sennett at the Southbank Centre
31 May 2013 | LSE Cities at the 2013 Zamyn Cultural Forum
23 May 2013 | LSE Cities at RIBA Charles Correa retrospective
18 Feb 2013 | Theatrum Mundi’s Adam Kaasa interviewed by NESTA
15 Feb 2013 | Theatrum Mundi workshops on ‘Music and Architecture’ in February
25 Jan 2013 | Theatrum Mundi at Currencies and Collectives, Frankfurt
14 Dec 2012 | Theatrum Mundi at Venice Finissage and on Monocle
3 Nov 2012 | Theatrum Mundi at the Venice Biennale
26 Oct 2012 | FT review: “A breath of fresh air for public spaces”
Journal articles
Bingham-Hall, John. (2017), Imagined Community and Networked Hyperlocal Publics. Archit. Design, 87: 64–71. doi:10.1002/ad.2133
Blog posts
Theocharopoulou, I., 2013. ‘Learning From Athens’, Theatrum Mundi Blog, 10 January 2013.
Deliss, C., 2012. ‘Trading perceptions in a Post-Ethnographic Museum’, Theatrum Mundi Blog, 27 November 2012.
Duncombe, S., 2012. ‘Politics as Theatrical Practice’, Theatrum Mundi Blog, 5 November 2012.
Behrendt, F., 2012. ‘Mobile Sound’, Theatrum Mundi Blog, 29 October 2012.
Sennett, R., 2012. ‘Good Homes for Art’, Theatrum Mundi Blog, 22 October 2012.
Luxemburg, R. B., 2012. ‘Light and Space’, Theatrum Mundi Blog, 15 October 2012.
Todd, A., 2012. ‘Ways of Hearing’, Theatrum Mundi Blog, 15 October 2012.
Sperling, M., 2012. ‘Performativity in the Public Realm’, Theatrum Mundi Blog, 1 October 2012.
Hallberg, G. W., 2012. ‘Sensuous Society’, Theatrum Mundi Blog, 17 September 2012.
Essays
Bingham-Hall, J., 2016. 'Future of Cities: Commoning and collective approaches to urban space', Future of cities: Government Office for Science.
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Director Adam Kaasa
Chair of the Advisory Committee Richard Sennett
Project coordinator Dom Bagnato
Researchers John Bingham-Hall, Kiera Blakey, Elisabetta Pietrostefani
Project partner New York University
Research strand Cities, Space and Society
Duration 2012 - 2017
Keywords urban space, places for culture, participation