The final episode in the first series of Staging Cities looks at improvised structures, radical ideas, nature and science in cities over a conversation with writer Sophie Mackintosh, whose debut novel The Water Cure was longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize, and artist and writer Crystal Bennes, whose writing on architecture and design has appeared in international publications including Icon, Frieze, Disegno and Metropolis.

Staging Cities is a new podcast from Theatrum Mundi, looking at ideas on the intersection of stagecraft, architecture and urban planning. We are borrowing from the toolkit of theatre-making to think about city-making. These new podcasts accompany a series of books we are working on with nai010 publishers from Rotterdam.

Hosted by Marta Michalowska, Theatrum Mundi