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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 University of Warwick, 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 Warwick University’s Sustainable Cities Global Research Priority (GRP) progamme and for ‘urban futures’ in its Connecting Cultures GRP.

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