With summer now fully underway, we’re happy to report on recent experiences from our Writingplace Open Strategic Meeting, which was held on June 5-6 of this year, in
This June, Writingplace invites you to a two-day exploration of the rich intersection between architecture, poetry, and place in Rotterdam. Bringing together authors, editors, architects,
This special issue of the Writingplace book series will be dedicated to graphic narratives, visual essays, and illustrated storytelling that tackle urban, architectural, spatial, and landscape environments through this critical lens. It focuses on understanding the visual world both as a means of depicting spatial environments and as a critical, practice-based approach to its manifold media forms in the public sphere.
Selected for İstanbul International Architecture and Urban Films Festival The documentary and experimental movie, “The Hundred Columns of Skopje,” directed by Antonio Paoletti and rooted
On the evening of May 3rd, Kulttuuritalo Telakka in Tampere was abuzz with excitement as we gathered for the launch of a new book and
(Hidden) Narratives of Spatial Resistance Keywords: resistance, spatiality, insurgent, narrative, poetry, literature, architecture Have you ever felt the streets whispering tales of defiance, participated in
Welcome to the book launch event focusing on creative methods to work with the narratives of the grassroots in the city! 6-8 p.m. May 3
Translating the Mid-sized European City The latest publication of our network, Other Destinations. Translating the Mid-sized European City edited by Michael G. Kelly, Jorge Mejía Hernández, Sonja
In September 2024, the University “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” in Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia, will host the interdisciplinary conference “City Streets 6” with the
A reflection on Delft by Sílvia Quinteiro. Sílvia was in Delft during the Closing Symposium: Writing Urban Places, June 2023. In a late October afternoon,
Second year, group 26, workshop by Lorin Niculae In Bucharest, Romania, a group of 33 architecture students used the Repository 49 Methods and Assignments for Writing Urban Places to analyse
Mabel Cheung As part of my master’s education in TU Delft’s architecture track in the studio of Methods of Analysis and Imagination, my colleagues and
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.
