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How can new forms of interdisciplinarity between city- making and dance-making help engender care for bodies, both human and non-human, in urban landscapes? How can dance, and particularly the form of the party, reveal and respond to issues of mobility justice in cities? This publication addresses questions in the design of urban (im)mobilities, voicing the choreographers, dancers, architects, and urbanists that contributed to the Movement Forum project. It narrates the experiments they led, the processes they went through, and the encounters they had along the way. Encounters that challenged not only the way they relate to each other but also the way they move and co-exist in space; the way they present themselves, embody their identities and accommodate the identities and presence of others; and the way they relate to non-human species and inanimate things with whom they share their habitat. It is these encounters, whether amorous, meaningful, lasting, intimate, conscious or not, that this book wishes to celebrate. Movement Forum was a project curated and organised by Theatrum Mundi in 2021 as part of the Future Architecture platform programme 'Landscapes of Care' co-funded by Creative Europe. Edited by Fani Kostourou and Elahe Karimnia Contributors: à la sauvette/ Adam Moore/ Barbara Araque/ Diego Jenowein/ Elahe Karimnia/ Eloise Maltby Maland/ Ernesto Ibáñez Galindo/ Fani Kostourou/ fem_arc/ Lara Stöhlmacher/ Gloria Calderone/ Habibitch/ Héctor Suárez/ Iro Xyda/ John Bingham-Hall/ Lee Campbell/ Luc Sanciaume/ Mahsa Alami Fariman/ Marcello Licitra/ Pablo Castillo Luna/ Rafael Alvarez/ Rebecca Faulkner/ Sara Wookey/ Takako Hasegawa/ Victoria Noakes.

Site Report is a collection of poetry in prose, verse and screenplay, where windows are a lot more than panes of glass, tables have minds of their own and sinks are conduits that connect to the wider world beyond the home. It is not a book about the domestic: it is the domestic reimagined. Written through the architecture of the home and together with all its elements, it is an invitation into the worlds of windows, tables and sinks that should never be reduced to their mere objecthood. Developed and written during Rhona Warwick Paterson's fellowship at Theatrum Mundi (2020-22), Site Report is an imaginative re-worlding of domestic space that destabilises the most intimate and familiar of spaces, proposing a pulsating landscape with uncontained possibility. Edited by Marta Michalowska

Often we only become aware of infrastructure when it is broken. When infrastructure's functioning is broken, as users, protagonists, friends, interlocutors, we are required to find an alternative way to travel, to consume, to rest, to socialise, to acknowledge that, for many in urban contexts, this corruption marks a seam, or an edge, in an otherwise seamless, or edgeless, cultural life. This publication by Susannah Haslam explores the relationship between cultural institutions and cultural infrastructures through four dialogues with cultural practitioners: eco-anxious artist, environmentalist and fermenter Sean Roy Parker; curator, educator, agitator and resource builder Cecilia Wee; curator and cultural programmer across design and architecture Meneesha Kellay; and co-directors of Theatrum Mundi - curator, producer and writer Marta Michalowska and cities researcher, organiser and musician John Bingham-Hall. Edited by Marta Michalowska and Lou-Atessa Marcellin Contributors: Sean Roy Parker/ Cecilia Wee/ Meneesha Kellay/ Marta Michalowska/ John Bingham-Hall.

Performing Projections explores the two-year collaboration between Theatrum Mundi and Jayden Ali, Unit Leader of the Spatial Practices programme at Central Saint Martins. Combining the voices of students, educators, and practitioners the publication is centred around one fundamental question: Can performance-making be a craft for architectural thinking? The studio was an experimental testbed where methodologies were developed using the techniques of scoring, staging, rehearsing, and improvising to raise provocative questions about who has the right to access, occupy, use, and remake our urban environments. Edited by Cecily Chua and Jayden AliContributors: Abby Bird/ Andrea Cetrulo/ Andrea Luka Zimmerman/ Andreas Lang/ Annie Dermawan/ Awais Ali/ Callum Brown/ Cameron Bray/ Cecily Chua/ Dhara Bhatt/ Elahe Karimnia/ Jake Johnson/ Jayden Ali/ John Bingham-Hall/ Kleanthis Kyriakou/ Lydia Hyde/ Mollie Griffiths/ Olivia Sutherill/ Rebecca Faulkner/ Sara Lohse / Yibeijia Li.

The 'political voice' is the subject of the second volume of Sonic Urbanism publications. This volume explores the political voice as a particular sonic phenomenon, asking how and where it is possible to have a 'voice' in urban politics, the relationship between material and metaphorical readings of political speech, and how voices can be amplified or silenced in cities. Responses explored vocal contestations and noisy citizenship, technologies that transmit or transform voices, and the ways that sound art and experimental music stage collective voicings. Contributors:John Bingham-Hall/ Fabien Cante/ Grégoire Chelkoff/ Ella Finer/ Tom Gooch/ Eleni Ikoniadou/ Kareem Al Kabbani and Tom Western/ Alexandra Lacroix/ Duncan MacLeod/ Gascia Ouzounian/ Jonathan Packham/ Saskia Sassen/ Eric de Visscher.

Following our first colloquium, 'Crafting a Sonic Urbanism', which took place at the MSH Paris Nord in September 2018, we are excited to present a publication on Sonic Urbanism. Edited by &beyond, it invites participants to share essays on sonic communities, urban composition, acoustic architectures, phonographic methods, and public performance projects. Contributors:Sara Adhitya/ Nathan Belval/ John Bingham-Hall/ Caroline Claus/ Burak Pak/ Alexandra Lacroix/ Marta Gentilucci/ Frédéric Mathevet/ Sharon Phelan/ Richard Sennett/ Justinien Tribillon.

There are cities that are walking cities or driving cities; there are quiet, loud, fast, slow, broad or high cities, and the bodies within them are shaped by the need to navigate them, while that process of navigation, in turn, shapes the cities. Urban designers, engineers, architects, exhibition curators and choreographers share a common interest in creating movement around, in, and through places. Each of these disciplines comes with its own language, verbal and/or somatic: a structured system of words, ideas, movements, rules, meanings and assumptions that can lead to slippages or 'failures' in communication outside the narrow field of their specialisms. And those instances of slippages have provided the starting point for dancer, choreographer and Theatrum Mundi's Research Fellow Adesola Akinleye to define a transdisciplinary lexicon of Place-making: a scaffolding for shared exploration, liberating communication from the contingencies and limitations of different subject areas. Edited by Marta Michalowska

A Love Affair is a collection of twelve love letters exploring the amorous relationship we cultivate with other organisms. How do the more-than-human make us feel and move, and how do they inform our identities? What apparatuses can help us attune to their liveliness through a sense of care, reciprocity, and affection?Let's take a moment to feel. Edited by Lou-Atessa MarcellinContributors: Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa/ Mo?nica Rivas Vela?squez/ Adam Moore/ Andrea Cetrulo/ Himali Singh Soin/ John Bingham-Hall/ Marta Michalowska/ Labeja Kodua Okullu/ Fani Kostourou/ Theo Turpin/ Lea Collet, Miriam Austin/ Harry Bix/ Guendalina Cerruti/ Rosa Doornenbal/ Roxman Gatt/ Maria Gorodeckaya/ Natalia Janu?a/ Eleni Papazoglou/ Anna Souter/ Zaiba Jabbar/ Lou-Atessa Marcellin/ Naz Balkaya/ Dylan Spencer-Davidson.

Embodying Otherness explores the presence, stillness and movement of bodies in the city, and the ways they are constantly restricted, codified and practiced. How can we challenge codes embedded in urban design which limit our right to be and move in the city? And how can we accommodate future changes by navigating the unknown and imagining alternative realities?Edited by Elahe Karimnia and Fani KostourouContributors: Adesola Akinleye/ Andrea Cetrulo/ Blanca Pujals/ Cecily Chua/ Elahe Karimnia/ Ellie Cosgrave/ Fani Kostourou/ Giuditta Vendrame/ John Bingham-Hall/ Lisa Sandlos/ Luke Gregory-Jones/ Marcos Villalba/ Matthias Sperling/ Paolo Patelli/ Paul Setúbal/ Pepa Ubera/ Rebecca Faulkner/ Rennie Tang/ Richard Sennett.

The urban backstage is made up of invisible networks, relationships and labour that exists out of public view in our cities.