Angelica Stan is currently full professor with habilitation at “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest, Romania (UAUIM). She holds a PhD in urbanism and teaches courses and studios at Bachelor, Master and Ph.D level, on various topics as: urban morphology, city language, dynamic of cities' peripheries, landscape history and theory, shrinking cities, participatory urban form. She graduated architecture in 1995, and the Urban Design and Regional Planning International Master Program in Rouen, France. She’s author of several books in urbanism and landscape theory, co-editor and contributor of many collective volumes, author of many articles publishesd in international journals. Currently she coordinates financed projects grants in international partnerneship through EU programs such SEE, INTERREG- Danube, Erasmus+. Since 1999, Angelica STAN published in Romanian seven poetry books, well received by critics, and showing a constant interest in the connection between city and litterature. She joined COST Action CA18126 Writing Urban Places. New Narratives of the European City to investigate literary geographies, memory microspaces, site-related poetry and traveling stories. She can be reached at angelica.stan@gmail.com
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.