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Theatrum-Mundi

Theatrum Mundi is a professional network of urbanists and artists that offers a forum for cross-disciplinary discussion about practices relating to cultural and public space in the city. It is now an independent charity based at Somerset House.

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.

 

Project Team

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

 

Events

 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.

 

News

 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”

 

Publications

 

 Website

http://theatrum-mundi.org/

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