Dalia Dijokiene PhD, architect and urban designer, is currently Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Urban Design, Faculty of Architecture, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (Vilnius, Lithuania), where she teaches urban design courses at undergraduate (BA), graduate (MA) and postgraduate (PhD) level. She conducts her research in the humanities within the research field of architecture and her area of expertise is historical suburbs. Current research topics cover historical urban development of the city; urban heritage; urban morphology research; city and society. She joined the COST Action CA18126 Writing Urban Places. New Narrative of the European City to explore new ways of understanding urban fabric. She can be reached at dalia.dijokiene@vgtu.lt or ddijokiene@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.
