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.

Angeliki Sioli is an architect and associate professor at the Department of Architecture, TU Delft. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy in the History and Theory of Architecture at McGill University. Her work connects architecture with language, literature, spatial atmospheres, and urban places. She has edited the collected volumes Architectures of Resistance: Negotiating Borders through Spatial Practices (Leuven University Press, 2024); The Sound of Architecture: Acoustic Atmospheres in Place (Leuven University Press, 2022); Reading Architecture: Literary Imagination and Architectural Experience (Routledge, 2018). Before joining TU Delft, Sioli taught both undergraduate and graduate courses at McGill University, in Montreal; Tec de Monterrey, in Mexico; and Louisiana State University in the U.S.

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.