Jeremy Allan Hawkins is a poet and lecturer at the Strasbourg School of Architecture in France, where he is a member of the AMUP research laboratory and contributes to teaching and research on design narratives, architectural writing, and poetics. He is a doctoral candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow, studying situated writing practices and knowledge production in spatial design contexts. He is the author of the poetry chapbook A Clean Edge (BOAAT, 2017). His writing has been published widely in Europe and the United States and has been selected for inclusion in the Best New Poets anthology series, as well as the extended program of the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennial. His research interests include creative writing as spatial practice, material poetics, practice-based research, and knowledge production in urban design. Email: jeremy.hawkins@strasbourg.archi.fr
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.