Vademecum: 77 Minor Terms for Writing Urban Places

Klaske Havik is Professor of Methods of Analysis and Imagination at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Her book Urban Literacy. Reading and Writing Architecture (2014) proposes a literary approach to architecture and urbanism. Writingplace. Investigations in Architecture and Literature appeared in 2016. Klaske Havik was editor of de Architect and OASE, and initiated the Writingplace Journal for Architecture and Literature in 2017. Havik is leading the EU COST Action Writing Urban Places. 

Kris Pint is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Arts, Hasselt University, Belgium. His teaching and research occupy the domains of cultural philosophy, semiotics and scenography. His research focuses on literature, (interior) architecture and visual arts, more specifically on the alternative possibilities of living, dwelling and knowing – fundamentals that artistic research helps to explore. He also examines how elements of creative (non-)fiction can be used in artistic research.

Svava Riesto is Associate Professor at the Section of Landscape Architecture and Planning, University of Copenhagen. She has published widely and her most recent books are Biography of an Industrial Landscape: Carlsberg’s Urban Spaces Retold (Amsterdam University Press2017) and Vademecum: 77 Minor Terms for Writing Urban Places, (co-edited with Havik, Pint, Steiner (NAi 2020). She leads the research project Women in Danish Architecture in partnership with Henriette Steiner (Danish Independent Research Fund and others, 2020-23) and is heading the work package on living heritage in the European project PuSH– Public Space in Social Housing (HERA 2019-21). 

Henriette Steiner is Associate Professor at the Section for Landscape Architecture and Planning at the University of Copenhagen. She holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Cambridge, UK, and was Research Associate in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich in Switzerland for five years. She is author of The Emergence of a Modern City: Golden Age Copenhagen 1800–1850 (Routledge, 2014) and has co-edited ten special journal issues and academic books. She leads the research project Women in Danish Architecture jointly with Svava Riesto.