Repository: 49 Methods and Assignments for Writing Urban Places

Prompts for creative and embodied engagement with the urban environment

Conceived as a sequel to Vademecum: 77 Minor Terms for Writing Urban Places, this volume offers a set of methods and assignments intended to stimulate creative, often embodied, approaches to architecture, urban studies and other fields of spatial development. The 49 methods--defined here as systematic procedures, techniques and ways of acting--were selected by an interdisciplinary group of international scholars connected through the EU COST Action network. Each of the methods is paired with a brief text and followed by a short assignment. Presented as a clear set of instructions, the assignment encourages the reader to fully or partially explore the method. As such, Repository is intended to serve as a useful tool to inspire, accompany and assist spatial professionals, researchers, students and communities alike to creatively and responsibly engage with current challenges of urban living.