Whose City?
A Webinar Series on Theatre and Gentrification
“Whose City?” is a Webinar Series organized by the members of “Theatre and Gentrification in the European City”, a five-year research project funded by the European Research Council’s Consolidator Grant Program. Combining multi-sited ethnographic and archival research, our goal is to analyze the relationship between theatre practices and urban transformation in five European metropoles in the twenty-first century: London, Berlin, Paris, Warsaw, and Istanbul. Theatre, we propose, is central to understanding the cultural politics of urban transformation today. In turn, contemporary cities, where culture is part and parcel of a new productive economy, are key to understanding theatre.
In “Whose City?”, we bring together both emerging and established scholars working at the intersection of Theatre and Performance Studies and Urban Studies and exploring a range of methodologies in humanities research. Together, we ask: what is the relationship between theatre and the twenty-first century city? And how do we document this elusive bond?
The “Theatre and Gentrification in the European City” project consortium includes the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama of the University of London, the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and the American University of Paris.