Hosting Offer | MSCA Fellowships | interdisciplinary urbanism + public life

  • Date
    • 7 April 2022 – 25 July 2022
  • City
    • Paris
  • Format

 

Theatrum Mundi is seeking proposals for interdisciplinary projects connecting city-making and the arts to enrich the public life and culture of cities. To be carried out through 1-2 year MSC Fellowships hosted by Theatrum Mundi, supported by our team – including 3 postdoctoral researchers plus urban designers, writers and curators – and in connection with an international network of trustees, advisors and collaborators from across urban planning, choreography, music, sociology, activism, literature and more. Theatrum Mundi was founded at the London School of Economics by Professor Richard Sennett in 2012, and now operates via non-profit structures in Paris and London.

 

Please first confirm your eligibility for the MSC Postdoctoral Fellowships, and then contact us with a description (max. 2 pages) of your proposed project idea, method, and previous related work. Projects that we are able to host will be connected with one of our academic leads and a relevant member of our advisory board to support the development of an application. Support on the technical and administrative aspects of the application will also be supported through consultation with our current MSC fellowship holder.

The deadline to submit your expression of interest is 25.07.2022, 11am BST.

 

Projects are encouraged within, but not limited to, existing streams in our work:

  • Choreographing the City: embodied approaches to urban design and mobility justice

  • Enactments: storytelling and fiction as tools for narrating common urban futures

  • Urban Backstages: the making and maintaining of infrastructures for cultural production

  • Sonic Urbanism: sound-informed approaches to designing for human and non-human voice

  • Designing Politics: design interventions to stage commoning, free speech and respect

 

Theatrum Mundi offers a unique research environment, enabling projects that do not easily fit within more traditional academic contexts due to their experimental or practice-led nature. Our responsive and adaptable structure makes it easy to make highly efficient use of project resources, test innovative ways of working, collaborate with external artists and designers, and produce accessible wide-reach outcomes via our in-house publishing and media platforms. Our research and administration staff are highly experienced in undertaking and supervising projects spanning empirical investigation, creative production, public engagement and multimedia publishing.

 

Benefits of joining Theatrum Mundi:

  • Freedom and support to develop creative and accessible outcomes – film, performance, podcasts, physical or mixed-media publications, etc – alongside more traditional academic publications if needed.

  • Personal, creative and highly engaged supervision with a closely-connected team and wider network of collaborators.

  • Opportunity to work at both Paris and London sites.

  • Opportunity to develop connections organically with other projects within the organisation, due to responsive and flexible management.

  • Belonging to an EU-funded platform for architecture including 28 festivals, museums and research organisations collaborating on an annual European architecture programme.

  • Efficient and flexible funding use.

  • Opportunity to engage with a network of Members and an annual Cohort learning programme run by the organisation.

 

Case study: Sven Anderson, Sound Frameworks

Sven Anderson is hosted by Theatrum Mundi from 2021-2023, leading the project Sound Frameworks, which will accelerate dialogue between artists, architects and urban designers and to advance an understanding of how sound and listening can influence the design of our cities. The fellowship will evolve through three phases between now and 2023, encompassing a sound in practice survey, a publication that explores emerging modes of practice, and an online design tool to guide the integration of sound in the design of the public realm. These outputs will support artists, architects, acousticians, urbanists and community organisations that want to activate sonic experience in the design of real-world projects in Europe and beyond.

Contact: info@theatrum-mundi.org