The Closing Symposium will take place on June 2nd, 2023.
It is a moment for the network members, academia, faculty, and community participants to celebrate and reflect upon the Action’s achievements during the past four years and to examine future challenges. Based on the efforts of the last four years, the symposium is organized in five sessions: Cities, Working groups, City writing workshops, Films and books.
Programme
8:30 Registration
9:00 Welcome
Kees Kaan, architect, Head of Department of Architecture
9:10 Introduction Writing Urban Places
Klaske Havik and Susana Oliveira, Action Chairs
9:30 Cities part I
9:30 Limerick – Extra Muros
Michael G. Kelly
Respondent Luc Pauwels
9:50 Almada – The Other Margin
Luis Santiago Baptista, Susana Oliveira
Respondent Lorin Niculae
10:10 Osijek – Mapping the Fictional and the Physical City
Sonja Novak and Angeliki Sioli
Respondent Sernaz Arslan
10:30 Coffee Break
10:45 Round table working groups 1 and 2: Communications and Theory
Jorge Mejía Hernandez, Onorina Botezat Science communication, working group 1
Sonja Novak, Angeliki Sioli, Giuseppe Resta, working group 2
Respondents: Svava Riesto, Lorna Stokes
11:30 Writing Urban Places Delft & lunch
11:30 Workshop introduction
Saskia de Wit and Angeliki Sioli
11:45 Workshop & Lunch break
(suggestions for nearby restaurants will be provided)
14:00 Round table working groups 3 and 4: Methods and Fieldwork
Carlos Machado e Moura, Dalia Milián Bernal, working group 3
Slobodan Velevski and Luis Santiago Baptista, working group 4
Respondents: Mattias Malk, Matej Nikšič, Kingą Kimic.
14:45 Cities part II
14:45 Tampere – Co-constructed narratives of the grassroots in the city
Elina Alatalo
Respondent Mathilde Merolli
15:05 Tallinn – Stories of Pictures and Pictures of Stories
Jüri Soolep
Respondent Fernando Ferreira
15:25 Canakalle – A Topographical System of Fictional Events and Memories
Giuseppe Resta and Sonja Novak
Respondent Juliana Wexel
15:45 break
16:00 Skopje The Brutalist Trail
Blagoja Bajkovski, Ana Rafailovska, Marija Mano Velevska
Respondent Holly Dale
16:20 Tirana The Planned, the Un-Planned and Everything In-between
Dorina Pllumbi, Diana Malaj, Willie Vogel
Respondent Nama’a Qudah
17:00 Session 6. Films and Books
17:00 Films
Screening of short films from the fieldwork events.
Introduction by Jorge Mejía and Onorina Botezat
17:30 Drinks & Book presentations
-Vademecum 77 Minor Terms for Writing Urban Places
-Repository 49 Methods and Assignments for Writing Urban Places
-Other destinations
-Writingplace journal #5 Narrative Methods for Writing Urban Places
-Writingplace journal #6 City Narratives as Places of meaningfulness, Appropriation, and Integration
-Writingplace journal #7 Taking place: Reflections from the Fieldworker
-Nalans Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, special issue The Narrative Identity of European Cities
20:00 Dinner at restaurant BarBaar in Delft
(upon pre-registration)
