We have launched our YouTube channel, Writing Urban Places, where we expect to upload videos from our activities, meetings, and other initiatives related to our
In order to get to know each other and our work a bit better, we have upgraded our team page, to include all action members.
Carlos Machado e Moura (WG3) and Pedro Abranches Vasconcelos are the winners of the Prémio Távora 2020 award, with the project “Estrelas do mar: Fortificações
The online conference “Meaningfulness, Appropriation and Integration of/in City Narratives” took place on Tuesday, 17 November 2020, and managed to bring together an considerable number
Tuesday 17th November 2020, 9:00 – 17:30 CET – Save the date! The first in a series of across-network webinars organized within our COST action
The collective publication Vademecum: 77 Minor Terms for Writing Urban Places, edited by Klaske Havik, Kris Pint, Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner, will be presented by editors
Edited by Klaske Havik, Rajesh Heynickx and Angeliki Sioli. The issue develops the premise that architecture is by definition an act of spatial imagination, this
NTNU ARTEC SEMINAR SERIES Monday, September. 21 18.00-20.00 (CEST) Webinar with artists, scholars, & performers Nina Eidsheim (UCLA) & Garth Paine (ASU). Nina Eidsheim is Professor of Musicology at
NTNU ARTEC SEMINAR SERIES Thursday, Sept. 3, 14.30-16.00 A presentation by Anna Dumitriu and conversation with guests from NTNU Oceans, OSEH, the Center for Experimental Humanities at
PhD Course: October-November 2020 Deadline application: 31 August Questions concerning gender are increasingly prevalent in contemporary scholarship and in political movements for justice and equal
Luís Santiago Baptista (WG4) and Maria Rita Pais are the winners of the Thought and Criticism 2020 FAD prize. With contributions of Susana Oliveira (WG1)
Due to the pandemic situation, the deadline for Working Group 4’s call for projects (https://writingurbanplaces.eu/call-wup/call-for-projects-field-work-exhibition-writing-urban-places-porto-conference-18-19-november-2020/) has been extended. New, adjusted deadlines have already been included
COST provides networking opportunities for researchers and innovators in order to strengthen Europe’s capacity to address scientific, technological and societal challenges. There are three strategic priorities: promoting and spreading excellence, fostering interdisciplinary research for breakthrough science and empowering and retaining young researchers and innovators.
Writing Urban Places proposes an innovative investigation and implementation of a process for developing human understanding of communities, their society, and their situatedness, by narrative methods. It particularly focuses on the potential of narrative methods for urban development in European medium-sized cities.
