Climate breakdown, environmental justice, urban expansion, metropolitanisation. A multiplicity of dynamics are driving rapid infrastructural transitions, transforming cultures of movement. But these changes are all-too-often narrated at scales that surpass the embodied experiences of those that live them every day. To better understand the bodily and cultural implications of these transformations, we can learn from the crafts of the stage – choreography, sound, narrative, dramaturgy.
Staging Ground, edited by John Bingham-Hall, assembles on-site investigations, critical reflections, and performative scores offering new ways to think, make, and inhabit mobility infrastructures. Grounded in the metropole of Grand Paris, they also aim to offer strategies intended to be staged anywhere that infrastructural transformations are shifting urban grounds.
Title: Staging Ground: infrastructures, performance, and bodies in movement.
Editor: John Bingham-Hall
Contributors: Magda Maaoui, Daniel Mebarek, Jonathan Steiger, Myrto Delimichali, Studio Inscape, Rubble, Ewa Effiom, Margarida Waco, Mai Linh Guinet-Brigitte, gel office, Neo-futuristic Walks, Dimitri Szuter, Melissa Harrison, Typical Organization.
Design: Typical Organization
Language: English
Date: October 2025
Size: 17 x 24 cms
ISBN: 979-13-990879-0-1
Publisher: dpr-barcelona, Theatrum Mundi.