Contributors
John Bingham-Hall is Director of Theatrum Mundi and a researcher interested in the technologies, performances and infrastructures of public life. He has a multidisciplinary background spanning studies in music and urban theory (BMus, Goldsmiths & PhD, UCL) and work in cultural programming.
Fabien Cante researches the various mediations of urban life and politics, thinking ethnographically and comparatively from Abidjan, Ivory Coast. He currently teaches urban geography at University College London.
Grégoire Chelkoff is an architect and doctor in urban planning, professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble and researcher at CRESSON (UMR AAU) where he directs thesis. He participated in the creation of the CRESSON laboratory in 1979 and was its director for eight years between 2000 and 2012.
Ella Finer works in sound and performance, spanning writing, composing and curating with a particular interest in how women’s voices take up space; how bodies acoustically disrupt, challenge or change the order of who is allowed to occupy – command – space. She is currently working on her first book, Acoustic Commons and the Wild Life of Sound (Errant Bodies).
Tom Gooch is an illustrator/artist living in London. He enjoys drawing comics, detailed nonsense and fantastical urban landscapes. He is also partial to poor quality beer and cartoons.
Eleni Ikoniadou is Senior Tutor in Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art, London. Her research is situated at the intersection between digital media, critical theory and sound art practice.
Kareem Al Kabbani and Tom Western are members of the Syrian and Greek Youth Forum in Athens, Greece. Al Kabbani is an activist, community leader, musician and researcher. Western is a writer, researcher, activist and lecturer in Cultural Geography at UCL in London. In 2020 they worked as co-researchers on a project through the University of Oslo, focused on sound, citizenship and migratory activisms in Athens.
Alexandra Lacroix is a stage director and designer. She has worked on numerous musical performances in venues including the Opéra National de Paris and Musée d’Orsay.
Duncan MacLeod is a composer, researcher and musician. His practice encompasses acoustic and electronic forces. He is currently Assistant Professor of Music Composition at the University of Nottingham.
Gascia Ouzounian is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Oxford. She co-directs the research group Recomposing the City which brings together architects, urbanists and sound artists in exploring new approaches to sonic urbanism.
Jonathan Packham is a composer, researcher and performer based in Oxford. He is a co-curator of the EXPO series for contemporary art and sound, and also produces and DJs as SALINGER.
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and a Member of its Committee on Global Thought which she chaired until 2015. She is a student of cities, immigration and states in the world economy with inequality, gendering and digitisation three key variables running through her work.
Eric de Visscher is a curator and researcher working on sound in museums. He has been Artistic Director of IRCAM/Centre Pompidou and Director of the Paris Musée de la musique, and is presently Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Professor at the V&A Research Institute.
&beyond collective is an international collective of editors, writers and graphic designers specialising in print and digital publishing in architecture and design. The editors of this project are George Kafka and Sophie Lovell, with creative direction and graphic design by Diana Portela and editorial assistance from Fiona Shipwright and Rob Wilson.