Dr John Bingham-Hall is Director for European Projects at Theatrum Mundi and Associate Lecturer on the MA Cities programme at CSM. With a background in music (Goldsmiths) and architectural theory (UCL Bartlett), he engages infrastructure, sound, movement and ecology as frameworks to investigate how climate adaptation is transforming the cultures of urban public life. He was recently Banister Fletcher Global Fellow at the University of London Institute in Paris (2021/22) and a Camargo Fellow at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France (2023). With Theatrum Mundi, he has led projects on cultural infrastructure, urban commons, political voice, and sonic urbanism. He has published extensively across academic journals and architectural media including Faktur Magazine, the Architectural Review, and AD Magazine.
Daniel Mebarek is Project Coordinator at Theatrum Mundi and an artist working with photography, video and installation. He holds an MA. in Photography from the Université de Paris 8 and a BA. in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris. Drawing on his academic background in social sciences, his artistic practice examines issues related to collective memory, identity and territory. His work has been nominated for the 2024 C/O Berlin Talent Award (GR) and the 2023 Lewis Baltz Research Fund (FR). He has received grants from the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (FR), PhMuseum (IT) and Photolucida (US). He was also an artist in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (FR).