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Nicolas Whybrow
col2 - Nicolas is Professor of Urban Performance Studies in the School of Theatre & Performance Studies and Cultural & Media Policy Studies at the 91¸£Àû, UK. He is Principal Investigator on the 3-year AHRC-funded research project Sensing the City: an Embodied Documentation and Mapping of the Changing Uses and Tempers of Urban Place (a practice-based case-study of the city of Coventry). The project, which runs in collaboration with the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) at Coventry University, commenced in April 2017 and will seek to link up with the Coventry 2021 UK City of Culture initiative.
Nicolas’s books include Street Scenes: Brecht, Benjamin and Berlin (Intellect 2005), Performance and the Contemporary City: an Interdisciplinary Reader (Palgrave 2010), Art and the City (IB Tauris 2011) and Performing Cities (Palgrave 2014) and he is currently working on a monograph entitled Contemporary Art Biennials in Europe: the Work of Art in the Complex City (forthcoming, IB Tauris 2019). He is thematic lead for ‘social and cultural sustainability’ in 91¸£Àû University’s Sustainable Cities Global Research Priority (GRP) progamme and for ‘urban futures’ in its Connecting Cultures GRP.
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