Event
Staging Cities, podcast series launch
11 Nov 2021
Regular hours
- Thu, 11 Nov
- 00:30 – 12:00
Timezone: Europe/London
Online
- Language: English
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Staging Cities is a new podcast from Theatrum Mundi, looking at ideas on the intersection of stagecraft, architecture and urban planning.
About
We are borrowing from the toolkit of theatre-making to think about city-making. These new podcasts accompany a series of books we are working on with nai010 publishers from Rotterdam.
In the first three podcasts, we discuss storytelling and architecture with six artists and writers, drawing on ideas from their contributions to the first volume produced with nai010 – Concrete and Ink: Storytelling and the Future of Architecture.
Staging Cities: The Tower Block
This episode focuses on the key residential structure in the city – the concrete icon, the promise of high-rise living, the ghetto – through a discussion with writer Alison Irvine, author of novels This Road is Red(2011) and Cat Step (2020), and cartoonist Matthew Dooley, author of graphic novel Flake (2020), who both set their contributions to Concrete and Ink in tower blocks.
Hosted by Marta Michalowska, Theatrum Mundi
Sound design and editing by Philippe Frau-Nadal
Staging Cities: The Mall & the Museum
The second episode of Staging Cities looks at retail palaces and cultural icons over a conversation with writer Alia Trabucco Zerán, shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize for her novel The Remainder (La Resta), and artist Bedwyr Williams, whose work was exhibited at Barbican Art Gallery, London, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, and Tramway, Glasgow, among many other institutions.
Hosted by Marta Michalowska, Theatrum Mundi
Sound design and editing by Philippe Frau-Nadal
Staging Cities: The Shed & the Ruin
The final episode in the first series of Staging Cities looks at improvised structures, radical ideas, nature and science in cities over a conversation with writer Sophie Mackintosh, whose debut novel The Water Cure was longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize, and artist and writer Crystal Bennes, whose writing on architecture and design has appeared in international publications including Icon, Frieze, Disegno and Metropolis.
Hosted by Marta Michalowska, Theatrum Mundi
Sound design and editing by Philippe Frau-Nadal