Theatrum Mundi is a professional network of urbanists and artists that offers a forum for cross-disciplinary discussion about practices relating to cultural and public space in the city. It is now an independent charity based at Somerset House.
Theatrum Mundi (TM) was founded and based at LSE Cities since 2012 by Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology at the LSE and New York University. It is a network that forges links between people from the performing and visual arts and those working within built environment disciplines. TM has since October 2017 been established as an independent charitable organisation and is now based at Somerset House.
During TM’s time at LSE Cities it brought together collaborators in diverse settings across the world – workshops, competitions, intimate discussion and public debate – to afford challenging, vulnerable provocation between thinkers and practitioners addressing the condition, inequalities, and design-politics of urban culture. Its aim was to invigorate city-making and its relation to culture in the twenty-first century.
- LSE Cities events
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- 25 February 2017 | The Quito Papers: towards the open city (Beijing)
- 31 January 2017 | The Quito Papers: towards the open city (London)
- 7 December 2016 | The Quito Papers: towards the open city (Paris)
- 4 October 2016 | Designing Respect Exhibition
- 18 August 2016 | Tania Bruguera and Saskia Sassen: In Conversation
- 20 August 2015 | Spaces for Literacy
- 15 June 2015 | Designing the Urban Commons
- 11 June 2015 | Designing Commons, Defining Commons
- 25 March 2015 | Designing the Urban Commons: Lessons from the Field
- 25 March 2015 | Ideas Competition: Designing the Urban Commons
- 28 February 2015 | Theatrum Mundi LSE Literary Festival discussion
- 27 November 2014 | Public lecture to celebrate Haworth Tompkins RIBA Stirling Prize 2014
- 1 October 2014 | Film Season: City, Religion, Capitalism
- 10 August 2014 | City, Religion, Capitalism: Turning Points for Civilisation
- 3 April 2014 | CITY RELIGION CAPITALISM
- 3 October 2013 | Negotiating spaces: design for knowing
- 25 May 2013 | Embodied City – Mit Kunst Stadt entwickeln
- 23 May 2013 | NightSeeing™
- 20 April 2013 | Spaces-in-Between: The City Becoming Ideas Camp
- 2 March 2013 | Between Curatorial and Urban Practice
- 11 December 2012 | Music and Architecture: Rhythm and Urban Space (London)
- 12 November 2012 | Music and Architecture: Harmony and Harmonious (London)
- 13 October 2012 | Places for Free Speech in the City (New York)
- 12 October 2012 | Presence and Absence in the City (New York)
- 23 June 2012 | Expressive Urbanism (London)
- 5 June 2012 | Social Movement: Designing for Free Speech (New York)
- 28 May 2012 | The Architecture of Sound: Turning the Inside Out (London)
- 4 May 2012 | The Architecture of Sound: Ambiance and Presence (London)
- 15 April 2012 | Light and the City: Culture, Design and Industry (Frankfurt)
- 10 April 2012 | Social Movement: Stage and Street (New York)
- Conferences
- Presentations
- Public lectures
- 13 Oct 2017 | Theatrum Mundi established as an independent charity at Somerset House
- 10 May 2017 | Theatrum Mundi opens new Designing Politics exhibition in London
- 7 Feb 2017 | Adam Kaasa contributes to new Walking Cities book
- 18 Jan 2017 | John Bingham-Hall publishes new article in Architectural Design journal
- 16 Jan 2017 | Adam Kaasa to speak on Designing Politics at the Museum of Architecture
- 16 Dec 2016 | Theatrum Mundi to co-host British Sociological Association seminar on inequality in design
- 15 Dec 2016 | Theatrum Mundi hosts round table on virtual culture and the city
- 7 Dec 2016 | Quito Papers film and discussion series launches tonight in Paris
- 4 Oct 2016 | Theatrum Mundi Designing Respect exhibition opens in Rio de Janeiro
- 5 Sep 2016 | Theatrum Mundi event explores migration and the politics of urban space
- 1 Aug 2016 | Adam Kaasa Visiting Professor at University of Toronto
- 2 Jun 2016 | Adam Kaasa to deliver paper on domestic monumentality
- 20 Apr 2016 | Adam Kaasa to speak on Theatrum Mundi topics
- 9 Feb 2016 | New Theatrum Mundi essay on public space
- 3 Feb 2016 | Theatrum Mundi announces new director, 2016 programme
- 15 Jun 2015 | Designing the Urban Commons Exhibition featured in The Guardian
- 29 Jul 2014 | Theatrum Mundi at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2014
- 14 Apr 2014 | Theatrum Mundi hosts CITY RELIGION CAPITALISM with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
- 6 Feb 2014 | Theatrum Mundi launches “Designing for Free Speech” challenge
- 15 Jul 2013 | Richard Sennett at Berliner Festspiele
- 4 Jul 2013 | Theatrum Mundi in Icon Magazine
- 31 May 2013 | Richard Sennett at the Southbank Centre
- 31 May 2013 | LSE Cities at the 2013 Zamyn Cultural Forum
- 23 May 2013 | LSE Cities at RIBA Charles Correa retrospective
- 18 Feb 2013 | Theatrum Mundi’s Adam Kaasa interviewed by NESTA
- 15 Feb 2013 | Theatrum Mundi workshops on ‘Music and Architecture’ in February
- 25 Jan 2013 | Theatrum Mundi at Currencies and Collectives, Frankfurt
- 14 Dec 2012 | Theatrum Mundi at Venice Finissage and on Monocle
- 3 Nov 2012 | Theatrum Mundi at the Venice Biennale
- 26 Oct 2012 | FT review: “A breath of fresh air for public spaces”
- Journal articles
- Blog posts
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- Theocharopoulou, I., 2013. ‘Learning From Athens’, Theatrum Mundi Blog, 10 January 2013.
- Deliss, C., 2012. ‘Trading perceptions in a Post-Ethnographic Museum’, Theatrum Mundi Blog, 27 November 2012.
- Duncombe, S., 2012. ‘Politics as Theatrical Practice’, Theatrum Mundi Blog, 5 November 2012.
- Behrendt, F., 2012. ‘Mobile Sound’, Theatrum Mundi Blog, 29 October 2012.
- Sennett, R., 2012. ‘Good Homes for Art’, Theatrum Mundi Blog, 22 October 2012.
- Luxemburg, R. B., 2012. ‘Light and Space’, Theatrum Mundi Blog, 15 October 2012.
- Todd, A., 2012. ‘Ways of Hearing’, Theatrum Mundi Blog, 15 October 2012.
- Sperling, M., 2012. ‘Performativity in the Public Realm’, Theatrum Mundi Blog, 1 October 2012.
- Hallberg, G. W., 2012. ‘Sensuous Society’, Theatrum Mundi Blog, 17 September 2012.
- Essays