JOHN BINGHAM-HALL

Phone
Email
Web

07867 661844
john.bingham.hall@gmail.com
johnbinghamhall.tumblr.com

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
2012 ONGOING
2010 2011
2005 2008

PhD Built Environment

Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL
Thesis title: The Blog and the Territory: a geography of hyperlocal media
MSc Advanced Architectural Studies (Distinction)
Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL
Thesis title: Public Art as an Urban Practice
BMus Music (First Class)
Goldsmiths College, University of London

SKILLS
GIS Software
Digital Communications
French Language

Advanced use for spatial analysis, creating maps, data visualization

Social community management, news blogging, basic HTML, website copywriting
Semi-fluent written and spoken

FUNDING AWARDED
2012 ONGOING
2010 2011
2006

EPSRC PhD studentship

AHRC Masters Studentship
Goldsmiths College Travel Award

EMPLOYMENT + FREELANCE WORK

2014 ONGOING

2014 ONGOING

2012

2013

2012 2013

Associate Lecturer
Central St Martins, MA Communication Design / BA Graphic Design
Draw on current PhD research to write and deliver teaching and workshops offering a
critical understanding of urbanism and specifically communication technologies in cities and
public spaces. Supervising undergraduate students writing research-led dissertations.
Built Environment Consultant
The Future Laboratory
Trend forecasting agency The Future Laboratory has called on me to provide expert
opinion on property developments and place-making projects. I draw on both my academic
and professional experience to advise on directions in urban planning, communities, retail
and culture, to inform the insights they provide for their clients.
Guest Lecturer
London College of Communication, BA Spatial Communication
Wrote and delivered a lecture on the use of communication media in public spaces and as a
tool for community development as part of the critical context aspect of this course.
Project Manager + Researcher
Nike+ FuelMap project | bit.ly/fuelmap
Commissioned to create map inspiring Londoners to walk instead of taking the tube and
track personal energy use using Nikes FuelBand project. Developed concept, planned and
recorded walking routes and oversaw team of cartographers & designers.
Project Manager + Curator
Argent, Kings Cross Filling Station | kxfs.co.uk
Kings Cross developers Argent commissioned a small team from restaurant Bistrotheque
and architects Carmody Groarke to develop a meanwhile use project for a defunct petrol
station as part of their place-making activities. Worked centrally to this team to develop the
design with the architects and lead the conception, delivery & promotion of a cultural

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2008 2010

program. Created successful bids to corporate sponsors and mediated between local arts
organisations & artists to present engaging events and exhibitions free to the public. Wrote
and communicated press releases and oversaw and managed website and social media.
Project Coordinator
Architecture Foundation | architecturefoundation.org.uk
Assisted in freelance capacity in delivery of South Kilburn Studios a meanwhile use project
offering studio space & youth traineeships by repurposing a defunct council estate office
and managed a high profile bar design competition for the 100% Design exhibition
Events & Publicity Officer
Bistrotheque | bistrotheque.com
Worked centrally in a small team at this restaurant & cultural space to design and produce
entertainment, social events & cultural projects both internally and for clients including high
profile galleries and brands. Created and managed web content and promotions and
communicated all activities to press.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS + PUBLICATIONS

2015 (UPCOMING)
2014
2014
2014
2013
2013
2012
2012
2011

Public Art as a Function of Urbanism (book chapter)

The Everyday Practice of Public Art (ed Martin Zebracki) |Routledge
What Power in Peer-to-peer Local Networks? (conference paper)
Creative Citizens | Royal College of Art, London
Hyperlocal Social Media as Place-based Community (conference paper)
Social Media and Society | Social Media Lab, Dalhousie University Toronto
The Blog and the Territory (conference paper)
Mediated City | Woodbury University, LA
Public Art as a Function of Urbanism (conference pa per)
Annual Nordic Geographers Meeting | University of Iceland
Searching for Digital Space in Granary Square (essay)
Urban Pamphletteer | UCL Urban Lab
One Day Listening to the City (conference paper)
One Day in the City | UCL
Regeneration in Detroit (radio essay)
The Urbanist | Monocle 24 Radio
Situated Urban Research: Detroit (website guest editorship)
Wallpaper Magazine Online

PROJECTS + ACTIVITIES
2014 ONGOING

2014 ONGOING

2011

The Missing Maps | hotosm.org

Participating in project co-organised by MSF and OpenStreetMap, using GIS skills to help
map vulnerable and disaster struck areas of the world to improve delivery of aid by
agencies working on the ground
Our New Cross | ournewcross.org
Founded a Neighbourhood Forum in New Cross, working towards a Neighbourhood Plan
guiding development in the area. Involves convening and facilitating public meetings,
designing and carrying out community consultation activities, researching and writing
planning policy and liaising with large local stakeholders.
Situated Urban Research Detroit | situatedurbanresearch.tumblr.com
With photographer Lucinda Chua undertook research in Detroit from an open studio
offering members of the public an opportunity to visit and share their. Culminated in an
exhibition at Cave Gallery and publication on Wallpaper magazine online.

REFERENCES
Rebecca Ross
Pablo Flack

CSM Graphic Communication Design Programme; Digital Media & Interaction Subject Leader
r.ross@csm.arts.ac.uk
Director, Kings Cross Filling Station
pablo@bistrotheque.com