University College London
Bartlett UCL
What does it mean for a museum to be urban? How do you exhibit what a city is? The Museum of London is making plans to leave its purpose-built modernist structure at London Wall and renovate part of the old Smithfield Market as a new... more
Initiated as a joint project between Theatrum Mundi, the opera company Cie mdpa – Alexandra Lacroix, and the composer Marta Gentilucci, Voi[e,x,s] follows the transformation of Chapelle Charbon, a publicly-owned site in the north of... more
What are the limits of design in addressing the political and/or when has design not been enough? This question lies at the heart of Designing Politics, an ongoing project at Theatrum Mundi. After three years of organising ideas... more
Beirut has a long-standing history of being a multipurpose hub in the Middle East. The area has witnessed a multitude of morphological transitions with the most recent being the post civil war reconstruction of the central district by a... more
ABSTRACT Grounded in Agamben’s spatial ontology, this paper analyses complex urban conditions in the West Bank, extracting phenomena of contested border zones that act as a microcosm of contemporary urban reality. Repositioning Agamben’s... more
As Popitz (2017) argues, violence is one component of the great economy of world history, an option permanently open to human activity. In Ciudad Juárez, right at the border between the United States and Mexico, this notion explains the... more
This thesis presents an ethnographic and practice-based investigation on Infrastructures of Caring Citizenship (ICCs). The term is coined in this same research work and elaborated through a situated study of four specific instances... more
Drawing on the theory of the Paradigm of Governing and the Paradigm of Dwelling by the philosopher Fernández-Savater, this paper attempts to theorise a spatial politics of care through an ethnographic analysis of three grassroots... more