INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
JULIANA WEXEL TAKES PART IN CLOSING SYMPOSIUM OF PROJECT WRITING URBAN PLACES
On 2 July 2023 Juliana Wexel, CIAC researcher and doctorate student in Digital Media Art by FCT-DMAD, takes part in the Closing Symposium: Writing Urban Places. The event will take place at the Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment, TU Delft, the Netherlands. Wexel’s communication s part of the Pannel Cities II Çanakalle – A Topographical System of Fictional Events and Memories.
The Closing Symposium: Writing Urban Places is a moment for the network members, academia, faculty, and community participants to celebrate and reflect upon the project’s achievements during the past four years and to examine future challenges. Based on the efforts of the last four years, the symposium is organized in five sessions: Cities, Working groups, City writing workshops, Films, and books.
Wexel will share her experience during The City and the Myth fieldwork, an Activity of COST Action Writing Urban Places that happened between 18 and 20 July 2022, in Turkey. With an emphasis on narrative methods for urban development in medium-sized cities in Europe, she researched the relationship between city and myth, the visible and the invisible, traveling from Istambul to Çanakkale. The event took place at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Yeditepe, in Istambul, in collaboration with Çanakkale Savaşları Gelibolu Tarihi Alan Başkanlığı [Çanakkale Wars Gallipoli Historical Sites Presidency].
Juliana’s travel journal “A Letter to Cassandra” was published in the book The City and The Myth, edited by Casa Editrice Libria (Melfi, Itália) and by the Italian architect and curator Giuseppe Resta. The book The City and The Myth gathers the results of the international workshop, where 26 researchers from European universities contributed with essays and journals of their travels from Istambul to Homer’s Troy. The e-book The City and The Myth is available here.
Juliana Wexel’s participation in the project Writing Urban Places is part of her fieldwork for project CyPeT cyberperformance research.
More information on the program of the Closing Symposium: Writing Urban Places here.
