Dr Marko Jobst is a writer and researcher based in Glasgow. Until recently he was Architecture Undergraduate Theory Coordinator at the Department of Architecture and Landscape at the University of Greenwich. He holds a Diploma in Architecture from Belgrade University, and MArch, MSc and PhD in Architectural History and Theory from The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. He has published on the work of Deleuze and Guattari, is the author of A Ficto-Historical Theory of the London Underground (AADR, 2017), and co-editor of Architectural Affects: After Deleuze and Guattari with Hélène Frichot (Routledge, 2020). He is currently working on a series of queer fictions sited in Belgrade.
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.