“Fables of Floods and Fire – Diluvial Myths as Tools for Urban (Re-)Configuration” – article co-written with Amer Obied, Marisa Kerbizi and Willie Vogel. It’s part of COST action “Writing Urban Places. New Narratives of the European City” (Writing Place) Training School: Local Stories and Visual Narratives.
The full issue can be found here.
An article in the weekly cultural newspaper SIRP on the newly renovated Kalamaja street in Tallinn.
The full article (in Estonian) can be found here.
I wrote a short contribution (pp 184-185) to the article “Co-Constructed Narratives of the Grassroots in the City Narrating Hiedanranta” by Dalia Milián Bernal, Elina Alatalo, Jeremy Allan Hawkins and Panu Lehtovuori. This was published in No. 8-9 (2023) of the journal Writing Urban Places: New Narratives for the European City. The publisher is nai0I0publishers.
The full issue can be found here.
An article in the weekly cultural newspaper SIRP about proposed changes in state procurement laws. So far all tenders have prioritised the lowest cost. Now social responsibility, innovation and sustainability will be introduced as key criteria alongside cost.
The full article (in Estonian) can be found here.
I was invited to expand on the notion of “my place” for the recurring opinion column of SIRP. The full text (in Estonian) is available here.
Analysis of the spatial dimensions of the 2023 Human development report for SIRP. Full text (in Estonian) available here.
I wrote two chapters for the “Repository – 49 Methods and Assignments for Writing Urban Places”, published by nai0I0publishers as part of the Writing Urban Places COST initiative.
This wonderful collection of methods for researching urban contexts was edited by Carlos Machado e Moura, Dalia Milián Bernal, Esteban Restrepo Restrepo, Klaske Havik and Lorin Niculae.
The full book can be found here.
This was an article for the Estonian cultural newspaper Sirp. I proposed to explore the social responsibility of arts infrastructures in smaller cities on the example of NART in the border town of Narva, Estonia. The interview with NART’s director Johanna Rannula took stock of how under her leadership the organisation has taken a bigger role in the urban space as well as socially. The conversation includes reflections on the border town identity, receiving Ukrainian refugees, and culture-led urbanism.
You can read the article here (in Estonian).
I was invited to take part in the 8th Artishok biennial as a writer. The Artishok format selects 10 artists to respond to the central theme along 10 writers who are tasked with a critique of each project. The whole process takes about a year and involves the writers being privy to the development of the artists’ ideas and projects. All the texts are revealed to the public at the opening, rather than with a delay as usual in arts critique. My texts were less focused on the artistic qualities of each outcome, but rather on their relation to the context and wider urban fabric.
More about the biennial, projects, artists and writers here.
This was an article for the Estonian cultural newspaper Sirp. I was asked to attend the Tallinn Architecture Biennale and review it. Despite my initial skepticism about the topic and its relevance, I was very pleasantly surprised. The curation and execution was thorough, thoughtful, engaging, and both contextual enough as well as grounded in theory, history and examples to appeal to a range of audiences.
You can read the article here (in Estonian).