Poetics of Place

Klaske Havik is Professor of Methods of Analysis and Imagination at Delft University of Technology, and Chair of the European COST Research Network Writing Urban Places. Her work relates architectural and urban questions, such as the use, experience and imagination of place, to literary language. Her publications include Urban Literacy. Reading and Writing Architecture (2014). She initiated the platform Writingplace, with which she published edited volume Writingplace, Investigations in Architecture and Literature (2016), and initiated the Writingplace Journal for Architecture and Literature. Earlier, she was editor of OASE and the Dutch Architectural review de Architect. Havik’s literary work appeared in Dutch literary magazines, and recently her collection Way and Further (2021) appeared in English with RightAngle Publishing. In 2022 she received an honorary doctorate of Tampere University, Finland, in recognition of her contribution to the study of architectural writing.

Dr. Angeliki Sioli, PhD is assistant professor at the Chair of Methods of Analysis and Imagination at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. She is a licensed architect, holding a PhD degree from the History and Theory Program of McGill University, Canada. Her research seeks connections between architecture and literature in the public realm of the city, focusing on aspects of embodied perception of place in the urban environment. She has edited the volume Reading Architecture: Literary Imagination and Architectural Experience (Routledge, 2018) and she is currently working on a collection of essays dedicated on sound and acoustic atmospheres of architecture. She was the co-leader of the Working Group 2, within the COST Action “Writing Urban Places”, working to create a strong, contemporary and interdisciplinary theoretical context for the study of mid-sized European cities.

Vincent A. Cellucci wrote Absence Like Sun (Lavender Ink, 2019) and An Easy Place / To Die (City Lit Press, 2011). He also has three collaborative poetry titles: come back river (Finishing Line Press, 2014); a ship on the line (Unlikely Books, 2014), which was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award; and the most recently released - getting away with everything (Unlikely Books, 2021). Vincent performed Diamonds in Dystopia, an interactive poetry web app at SXSW in 2017, and the poem was anthologized in Best American Experimental Writing 2018. He works at the TU Delft Library and combines technology and poetry at Leiden University.

Jeremy Allan Hawkins is a poet and lecturer at the Strasbourg School of Architecture in France, where he is a member of the AMUP research laboratory and contributes to teaching and research on design narratives, architectural writing, and poetics. He holds a DFA in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow, entitled Poetic Practices and Spatial Agency: Writing into New Situations. He is the author of enditem. (Downingfield, 2024), Fantastic Premise (Alien Buddha, 2023), and A Clean Edge (BOAAT, 2017). His writing has been selected for inclusion in the Best New Poets anthology series, as well as the extended program of the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennial. His research interest include creative writing as spatial practice, material poetics, practice-based research, and knowledge production in urban design.