Dear Writing Urban Places network members,
As part of the third grant period of our action, several fieldwork events are scheduled to be organized during the course of 2022. Their aim is to further contribute to our challenging journey of connecting narratives, people and places. The intention of fieldwork events is to transfer already accumulated knowledge of theories and methods assembled as a reflection within the specific field of architecture, urbanism, literary studies and social sciences by taking actions related to tangible places, that could be classified as mid-size cities.
After a number of presentations that took place at the mid-term conference in Porto and further elaboration of the submitted proposals, we are happy to inform you that four cities were listed for hosting an event this year. The first two events that would open this initiative will take place in Osijek (Croatia) and Tampere (Finland), but it is also expected to have events in Canakkale (Turkey) and Skopje (N. Macedonia) in the second half of 2022. Below, you can find general info about the planned fieldwork events. Please feel free to contact persons responsible for hosting these events if the general topic provokes your interest to contribute to organize them (more info about each of the proposals, you can find on the writing urban places YouTube channel.
FIELDWORK EVENTS 2022:
Host City: Osijek (Croatia) // Title: Urban Chronicles in Empirical Context // Activity: Training school for PhD candidates // Dates: 26 – 28 April 2022 // Contact person: Sonja Novak (snovak@ffos.hr, sonja_novak@hotmail.com)
Host City: Tampere (Finland) // Title: Narrating Hiedanranta: Stories of Objects and Subjects of Urban Places // Activity: Fieldwork // Dates: 1 – 3 June 2022 // Contact persons: Dalia Milián Bernal (dalia.milianbernal@tuni.fi)
Host City: Canakkale (Turkey) // Title: The City and the Myth // Activity: Fieldwork // Dates: Between end of June/First half of July 2022 // Contact person: Giuseppe Resta (giusepperesta.arch@gmail.com)
Host City: Skopje (N. Macedonia) // Title: Generosity of Space: Skopje Brutalism Trail // Activity: Fieldwork // Dates: September 2022 // Contact persons: Blagoja Bajkovski (bajkovski.blagoja@arh.ukim.edu.mk), Ana Rafailovska rafailovska.ana@arh.ukim.edu.mk)
For each of the cities, a separate call for participation will be announced accordingly in the following months. Please stay tuned!
Last, but not least, we would also like to use this opportunity to inform you that another call for hosting fieldwork events for the fourth grant period, mainly 2023, is going to be announced during 2022. We would be more than happy to receive your exciting proposals!
