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Professor Nicolas Whybrow is Retiring

Sat, 24 Oct 2020 10:34:14 GMT

Professor Nicolas Whybrow is retiring early at the end of October 2020 owing to recent ill health. He is a long-time member of Theatre and Performance Studies at Warwick, joining in February 2004. A former Head of School (2014-2017), Nicolas taught across a range of modules, most notably Performance and the Contemporary City and Live Art and Performance. In 2010 he won the Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence.

Nicolas played a leading role in the University’s research culture, being appointed as thematic lead for two of its GRPs, Sustainable Cities and Connecting Cultures. In 2017-2020 he was the PI on a 3-year AHRC-funded practice-as-research project entitled Sensing the City, which culminated in a multi-medial exhibition at the Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry and an edited book, Urban Sensographies (2021). Meanwhile, his book Contemporary Art Biennials in Europe: the Work of Art in the Complex City appeared in 2020.

Further details about Nicolas are available on his staff webpage. Happily, he retains his connection to the University as Professor Emeritus.

Sensing the City: An Urban Room Opens in The Herbert Today!

Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:14:00 GMT

Sensing the City: An Urban Room is a collaborative exhibition curated by Sarah Shalgosky & Fiona Venables with contributions from artists Michael Lightborne, The Tank, Carolyn Deby/sirenscrossing. The exhibition also hosts a grid map of Coventry designed for Sensing the City by Dave Allen and contributions from Coventrians.

Herbert Gallery

Monday, January 13 to Saturday, January 18.

We are bringing together the findings, stories, questions, images, inspirations and much more from our three years long journey in and around Coventry city centre in this exhibition taking place on 13-18th January 2020 at The Herbert Gallery. We are hoping this exhibition will serve as an Urban Room, to revisit together some of the key questions the research team and commissioned artists have been working with...

How can the human body be in measure of the city?
How can a focus on human sensing enhance the habitability of urban life?
What do the sensed contours, textures and atmospheres of the city tell us about it?
Who and what is Coventry city centre for?
What kind of city do we wish to live in?

Prof. Nicolas Whybrow is invited to speak at PLAY, an Interdisciplinary symposium hosted by The Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London

Mon, 09 Sep 2019 08:00:00 GMT

Prof. Nicolas Whybrow is making a contribution to an interdisciplinary symposium on Play and its Potential Publics at the Institute of Advanced Study, UCL on 14th September. The paper is called "Sensing the City: a Road Map".

This symposium will bring together scholars in the social sciences and humanities to ask how the potentials of play can operate in public life. We will consider what the consequences are of extending play beyond any defined or intended limits: how it can become integrated with the everyday, the trivial with the serious, the imaginary with the real, the sacred with the profane.

Michael Pigott shows film installation about Coventry Ring Road as part of the AHRC Sensing the City project

Thu, 06 Jun 2019 11:00:00 GMT

Michael Pigott shows film installation about Coventry Ring Road as part of the AHRC Sensing the City project.

Professor Nicolas Whybrow speaks about the Sensing the City Project as part of UN World Cities Day

Wed, 31 Oct 2018 08:00:00 GMT

What is Warwick doing to address the challenges faced by cities and the people that live in them?

To celebrate UN World Cities Day, the Sustainable Cities GRP is holding a half-day event to showcase cities research at Warwick. Besides offering the opportunity to hear more about the wide variety of research being undertaken in the cities space, this event will also offer the opportunity to advance university wide relationships and to learn more about research opportunities linked to cities.

Professor Nicolas Whybrow will begin the conference with his paper 'Sensing the City: an Embodied Documentation and Mapping of the Changing Uses and Tempers of Urban Space'. To learn more about the Sensing the City project click HERE or follow the project on twitter @SensingTheCity

Sensing the City research team at Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art

Sun, 29 Oct 2017 13:37:45 GMT

Members of the AHRC-funded research project Sensing the City: an Embodied Documentation and Mapping of the Changing Uses and Tempers of Urban Place had a significant presence at the Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art which ran from October 6 -22.

Nicolas Whybrow gave a 45-minute talk entitled 'Contemporary Art Biennials in Europe' at the symposium The Biennial Effect: Biennials and Place-making, The Box, FarGo Village, 19th October 2017.

Carolyn Deby (sirenscrossing) created a performance adventure entitled urbanflows (wish you were here). 'Taking place within everyday spaces of Coventry, this piece invites you to traverse the flows of the city, to notice how you simultaneously merge with, and leave traces. Enter secret vantage points and encounter the unexpected. The city never settles, nothing is built to last. You were here.' Urbanflows (wish you were here) ran from 10 - 13 October. Commissioned by Sensing the City at Warwick University, with support from Coventry Artspace Partnerships Central Taxis of Coventry, and Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art. Created by artists Carolyn Deby and Jia-Yu Corti.

Michael Pigott had a set of three prints entitled The Future is a Waste of Time in the main exhibtion at the CET Building. This triptych of prints take the imagined futures of Coventry as their starting point, overlaying text onto photographic and illustrated visions of the city.