Writing as a mode of spatial investigation

Date: 23 October 2024
Time: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
In-person at 6.02, 6th Floor The Bartlett School of Architecture. UCL, 22 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0QB, UK
Third-party event

This lecture explores literary writing as a mode of spatial investigation, discovering poetic, narrative and imaginative dimensions of architecture and urban place.

Klaske Havik will make a plea for poetic imagination as a crucial capacity of both literary writers and architects. In this context, she will also discuss the outcomes of the EU COST Network Writing Urban Places, an international and interdisciplinary network that seeks for more socially inclusive and locally specific urban places through the investigation of local narratives. 

 The event will be chaired by Professor Yeoryia Manolopoulou with responses from Professor Jane Rendell followed by discussion with the audience.