Jana Culek is an architect and a doctoral researcher with the Chair of Methods of Analysis and Imagination at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment (TU Delft) in the Netherlands. Aside from her academic work, Culek is also a practicing architect at Studio Fabula, a Delft based office which she founded in 2019. She graduated as an architect and urban planner from the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb, followed by a postgraduate master program at the Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design. Her research focuses on architectural and urban narratives, how they are created through texts and drawings, and how they can be used to convey knowledge. Her doctoral research focuses on utopia as a critical and speculative method in architecture and literature. Contact: j.culek@tudelft.nl ; janaculek@studiofabula.eu Further info: https://www.janaculek.com/ ; https://www.studiofabula.eu/
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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.