Stuart Andrews

I am interested in the ways performance practice and research can help us understand, practise, and manage the places around us.

As a Co-director of Performing City Resilience (with Patrick Duggan), I work with emergency planners, culture directors, organisations, and companies to develop/implement creative strategies in response to local and global challenges. This collaborative work has led these partners to think in new ways about their work and to revise key policies and procedures, as demonstrated in New Orleans (USA) and the UK. Critically, recent collaborative work led the Emergency Planning Society to embed creativity in its core competencies.

I have published internationally on arts, architecture, culture, emergency and resilience planning, performance, and place. Publications comprise books and academic articles, professional reporting and blog posts. In 2025, Patrick Duggan and I published 'Performing New Orleans: Rethinking Resilience in Art and Everyday Life', the first book to explore the ways in which artistic and everyday performances contribute to resilience management in New Orleans.