The Global Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Phil's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
About Phil
Dr Phil Smith is an Associate Professor. He is an academic researcher, writer and artist specialising in walking, site-specific performance, dramaturgy, diagrammatical performances, eco-gothic fictions and mythogeographies. He welcomes enquiries from postgraduate students interested in researching fields similar or adjacent to these areas; he is currently Director of Studies for Trystan Verran (bardik practice) and Patrick Ford (myth-making in Leeds arcades). With artist Helen Billinghurst he works as the 'Crab' half of Crab & Bee; after a project of walks, readings and exhibition, ‘Plymouth Labyrinth’, https://plymouthlabyrinth.wordpress.com/ they published ‘The Pattern' (2020) with Triarchy Press. His other publications include 'Goblin Queens and Qualia Knights' (2024), 'The Common' (2023), 'Living In The Magical Mode' (2022), ‘Making Site-Specific Theatre and Performance’ (Red Globe Press/Bloomsbury, 2018), ‘Walking’s New Movement’ (2015), ‘On Walking’ (2014) and ‘Mythogeography’ (2010). At present he is preparing a monograph on eco-eerie movies for Undefined Boundary Press. Phil is company dramaturg of TNT Theatre (Munich) and co-author with its artist director, Paul Stebbings, of 'TNT: The New Theatre' (2022, Triarchy Press). www.mythogeography.com
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Supervised Research Degrees
Helen Billinghurst (PhD) 'Ways of making: producing artworks in the studio in response to experiential walking'
Ivan Pope (PhD) 'My Auschwitz State of Mind: a study of emergence of a text in relation to Auschwitz'
Teaching
Site-based theatre, ambulatory performance, performance and environments, community theatre, improvisation, directing, playwriting, live art, symbolist theatre, rough theatre.
