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<\/h3>\n\n\n\nCultural Flagships: Pathways, Practices and Politics of a Global Urban Type
<\/i>October 2020 \u2013 September 2024<\/strong>
<\/h5>\n\n\n\nResearchers: Martin M\u00fcller (PI), David Gogishvili and Laura Neville (postdoctoral researchers), Clotilde Trivin (doctoral student)<\/strong>
Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThis project seeks to achieve two goals: first, to think and characterise cultural flagships as a global urban type<\/em> and, second, to trace the individual articulations of four cultural flagship exemplars as what it calls global buildings<\/em>. A database of cultural flagships worldwide will allow drawing more general conclusions on the prevalence, genealogy, context, rationales and outcomes of cultural flagships and tracing the pathways, practices and politics of the cultural flagship as a global urban type<\/em>. The four case studies are all drawn from cities outside the West, which represent the global frontier of the cultural flagship as an urban type: the Louvre in Abu Dhabi, the M+ Museum in Hongkong, the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro, the Second World War Museum and the European Solidarity Center in Gda\u0144sk. This choice allows not just examining their (potentially different) positioning vis-\u00e0-vis the particular urban type that is the cultural flagship, but also vis-\u00e0-vis the global cultural hegemony of the West<\/p>\n\n\n\nMore info<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/m3-lausanne\/files\/2025\/01\/Cultural-flagships.png\")
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Researchers: Martin M\u00fcller (PI) and Julie Grieshaber (Junior researcher). Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThis transformational research project aims to develop frameworks and tools to accompany the cultural sector towards more ambitious and more systematic actions for sustainability. Museums, theatres, opera houses and other cultural institutions enjoy high levels of trust and public visibility, attracting millions of visitors across the globe each day. As such, they are predestined to shape the sustainability transition and become thought leaders and role models to inspire action for sustainability beyond their sector. The cultural sector, however, is lacking a framework and indicators for understanding and managing sustainability, as well as a benchmark to calibrate and structure ongoing sustainability efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/h3>\n\n\n\nParis 2024, Los Angeles 2028: A turnaround for the Olympics after the crisis?
October 2019 \u2013 July 2022<\/strong>
Researchers: Martin M\u00fcller (PI), Sven Daniel Wolfe (Postdoctoral researcher)
Funding: University of Lausanne<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\nIn this project we propose to investigate whether the preparations for the Olympic Games in Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028 represent a new departure in terms of planning practices for large events, so-called mega-events. Based on our previous research on mega-events in eleven countries and twenty cities, we ground this project in reference to the most common potential pitfalls of mega-event planning and governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/h5>\nHazardous planning: Improvising the Olympics<\/em>
August 2016 – June 2020<\/strong>
Researchers: Martin M\u00fcller<\/strong><\/h5>\nThis project is about planning the unplannable: mega-projects that stretch over several years, sometimes decades, and run to several billions of euros. Among those, it focuses on the largest events in the world \u2013 the Olympic Games and the Men’s Football World Cup. The project is situated between the disciplines of geography, sociology, organisation studies and sports and leisure studies, drawing on each to better understand how organisers try to rise to the challenge of preparing for mega-events with scrupulous advance planning. But the more people plan, the more effectively chance strikes: that is what I call the planning paradox.<\/p>\n
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<\/em><\/h5>\nThe Geopolitics of Geographical Knowledge<\/em>
September 2017 – December 2019<\/strong>
Researchers: Martin M\u00fcller (PI), Carolin Schurr (collaborator), Elena Trubina (collaborator), David Gogishvili (Post-doctoral researcher), Nadja Imhof (Research Assistant)<\/strong><\/h5>\nEnglish has quickly become the world\u2019s de facto lingua franca<\/em> for academic exchange. English-language journals therefore have the opportunity, and the responsibility, to shape academic discourse and knowledge production on a global scale. Many of geography\u2019s leading journals bill themselves in their mission statements as \u2018international journals\u2019, \u2018striving for international authorship and readership\u2019 (Social & Cultural Geography<\/em>: website). But how international are geography journals really? And to what extent do they reach beyond the Anglosphere?<\/p>\nMore info<\/p>\n
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<\/em><\/h5>\nMega-events as urban interventions: growth and impacts<\/em>
August 2017 \u2013 July 2019<\/strong>
Researchers: Martin M\u00fcller (PI), Annick Leick (post-doctoral researcher), Sven Daniel Wolfe (doctoral researcher)<\/strong>
Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation<\/strong><\/h5>\nThe costs and infrastructural requirements of mega-events such as the Olympic Games and the Football World Cup put them among the single most transformative ventures for cities today. At the same time, their complexity and tendency to exceed budgets make them highly risky undertakings. Despite this, little is known about the impacts of different mega-events across time and the driving factors behind these impacts. This project \u2013 Phase 2 of the Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship \u2013 established the size, costs and impacts of a longitudinal sample of 66 mega-events since 1960 and the driving factors behind these impacts. It considered three types of mega-events: (1) the Olympic Summer and Winter Games as a uni-local sports event (2) the Football World Cup as a multi-local sports event (3) the World\u2019s Fairs (Expos) as a uni-local non-sports event.<\/p>\n
Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
This project seeks to achieve two goals: first, to think and characterise cultural flagships as a global urban type<\/em> and, second, to trace the individual articulations of four cultural flagship exemplars as what it calls global buildings<\/em>. A database of cultural flagships worldwide will allow drawing more general conclusions on the prevalence, genealogy, context, rationales and outcomes of cultural flagships and tracing the pathways, practices and politics of the cultural flagship as a global urban type<\/em>. The four case studies are all drawn from cities outside the West, which represent the global frontier of the cultural flagship as an urban type: the Louvre in Abu Dhabi, the M+ Museum in Hongkong, the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro, the Second World War Museum and the European Solidarity Center in Gda\u0144sk. This choice allows not just examining their (potentially different) positioning vis-\u00e0-vis the particular urban type that is the cultural flagship, but also vis-\u00e0-vis the global cultural hegemony of the West<\/p>\n\n\n\n More info<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Researchers: Martin M\u00fcller (PI) and Julie Grieshaber (Junior researcher). Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This transformational research project aims to develop frameworks and tools to accompany the cultural sector towards more ambitious and more systematic actions for sustainability. Museums, theatres, opera houses and other cultural institutions enjoy high levels of trust and public visibility, attracting millions of visitors across the globe each day. As such, they are predestined to shape the sustainability transition and become thought leaders and role models to inspire action for sustainability beyond their sector. The cultural sector, however, is lacking a framework and indicators for understanding and managing sustainability, as well as a benchmark to calibrate and structure ongoing sustainability efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More info.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n In this project we propose to investigate whether the preparations for the Olympic Games in Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028 represent a new departure in terms of planning practices for large events, so-called mega-events. Based on our previous research on mega-events in eleven countries and twenty cities, we ground this project in reference to the most common potential pitfalls of mega-event planning and governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More info<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n This project is about planning the unplannable: mega-projects that stretch over several years, sometimes decades, and run to several billions of euros. Among those, it focuses on the largest events in the world \u2013 the Olympic Games and the Men’s Football World Cup. The project is situated between the disciplines of geography, sociology, organisation studies and sports and leisure studies, drawing on each to better understand how organisers try to rise to the challenge of preparing for mega-events with scrupulous advance planning. But the more people plan, the more effectively chance strikes: that is what I call the planning paradox.<\/p>\n More info<\/a><\/p>\n English has quickly become the world\u2019s de facto lingua franca<\/em> for academic exchange. English-language journals therefore have the opportunity, and the responsibility, to shape academic discourse and knowledge production on a global scale. Many of geography\u2019s leading journals bill themselves in their mission statements as \u2018international journals\u2019, \u2018striving for international authorship and readership\u2019 (Social & Cultural Geography<\/em>: website). But how international are geography journals really? And to what extent do they reach beyond the Anglosphere?<\/p>\n More info<\/p>\n The costs and infrastructural requirements of mega-events such as the Olympic Games and the Football World Cup put them among the single most transformative ventures for cities today. At the same time, their complexity and tendency to exceed budgets make them highly risky undertakings. Despite this, little is known about the impacts of different mega-events across time and the driving factors behind these impacts. This project \u2013 Phase 2 of the Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship \u2013 established the size, costs and impacts of a longitudinal sample of 66 mega-events since 1960 and the driving factors behind these impacts. It considered three types of mega-events: (1) the Olympic Summer and Winter Games as a uni-local sports event (2) the Football World Cup as a multi-local sports event (3) the World\u2019s Fairs (Expos) as a uni-local non-sports event.<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nCulture for the Planet: Turning cultural institutions into leaders of the sustainability transition<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
<\/h3>\n\n\n\nParis 2024, Los Angeles 2028: A turnaround for the Olympics after the crisis?
October 2019 \u2013 July 2022<\/strong>
Researchers: Martin M\u00fcller (PI), Sven Daniel Wolfe (Postdoctoral researcher)
Funding: University of Lausanne<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/h5>\nHazardous planning: Improvising the Olympics<\/em>
August 2016 – June 2020<\/strong>
Researchers: Martin M\u00fcller<\/strong><\/h5>\n <\/h5>\n
<\/em><\/h5>\nThe Geopolitics of Geographical Knowledge<\/em>
September 2017 – December 2019<\/strong>
Researchers: Martin M\u00fcller (PI), Carolin Schurr (collaborator), Elena Trubina (collaborator), David Gogishvili (Post-doctoral researcher), Nadja Imhof (Research Assistant)<\/strong><\/h5>\n <\/h5>\n
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<\/em><\/h5>\nMega-events as urban interventions: growth and impacts<\/em>
August 2017 \u2013 July 2019<\/strong>
Researchers: Martin M\u00fcller (PI), Annick Leick (post-doctoral researcher), Sven Daniel Wolfe (doctoral researcher)<\/strong>
Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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