Juliana Wexel is a multimedia artist, journalist, researcher (FCT) and doctoral student in Digital Media Art at the Arts and Communication Research Center at the University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal (CIAC-DMAD). She is Master of Letters (Literature) and Culture, was a lecturer at the Department of Languages, Literature and Modern Cultures at the University of Bologna, Italy, and Assistant Professor of Journalism at Universidade Veiga de Almeida, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Juliana is the author of the audiovisual series on street art in the Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo produced by Canal Futura and connected to the UN Why Poverty?. In 2020 she has created ivagination, a digital installation with an autobiographical narrative in a site specific model and vulva art genre, in Lisbon. She intersects scientific investigation based on artistic practice, narratives, digital technologies, feminism and urban space, as well as associating research with the Writing Urban Places. Email: julianawexel@gmail.com, Instagram: @julinomundi
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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.