Tales of Cities as (Resistant) Practices (REPRINT)
Paper in proceeding, 2021

Originally published in the volume Across Theory and Practice: Thinking Through Urban Research, edited by Monika Grubbauer and Kate Shaw
(Jovis, 2018), this article offers reflection on the opportunities and challenges presented by telling embodied-situated stories of architecture and cities. Situated and relational approaches are considered here as a way of challenging unhelpful divisions between theory and practice, and as an opportunity to address urban and architectural questions through their specificity rather than a generalized relevance or appeal. However, such situated stories do not come without struggles. I will thus ask: How to write stories in a situated manner and also keep stories situated? How to determine which stories are worth telling? And how can stories make a difference? This short article offers an occasion to reflect on such questions by exploring my earlier experiences with researching architectural and urban practices in a specific city—Brussels after 1968—and by thinking through such questions on the occasion of a thematic journal issue jointly edited with Hélène Frichot for Architectural Theory Review (2018).

Critical storytelling

theory and practice in architecture

situated perspectives

Author

Isabelle Doucet

Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Architectural theory and methods

APPROACHES AND METHODS IN ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH Proceeding Series

Vol. 2021-1 15-24
978-91-983797-5-4 (ISBN)

Approaches and Methods in Architectural Research
Gothenburg, Sweden,

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Philosophy

Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Architecture

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10/23/2023