Narrating Shared Futures

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https://doi.org/10.59490/footprint.18.1.7681

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This visual essay features students’ projects from the MSc2 design studio ‘Transdiciplinary Encounters: Narrating Shared Futures’ offered at TU Delft Faculty of Architecture in Spring of 2022, which served as an inspiration for this issue of Footprint. Designed and taught by the issue editors, Aleksandar Staničić and Angeliki Sioli, the course combined cultural heritage and literary narratives to ask students: How can places of memory be rethought using literary techniques, so that they provide the ground for new meanings to emerge and get shared across different cultures? Seven visionary architectural projects featured in this essay, offered their responses to this pertinent question that is fundamental for narrating, imagining and, ultimately, creating shared futures.

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Aleksandar Staničić, Delft University of Technology

Aleksandar Staničić is an architect and assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft. He was a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at TU Delft (2018–20), a postdoctoral fellow at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT (2017–18), and a research scholar at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University (2016–17). His most recent work includes the edited volume War Diaries: Design After the Destruction of Art and Architecture (University of Virginia Press, 2022) and numerous research articles in various journals, including The Journal of Architecture, Footprint and Architecture and Culture.

Angeliki Sioli, Delft University of Technology

Angeliki Sioli is an architect and assistant professor of architecture at the Chair of Methods of Analysis and Imagination, TU Delft. She hails from Greece, where she obtained her professional diploma in architecture from the University of Thessaly and was granted a post-professional master’s in architectural theory and history by the National Technical University of Athens. She completed her PhD in the history and theory of architecture at McGill University. Her work on architecture, literature and pedagogy has been published in a number of books and presented at numerous conferences. She has edited the collected volumes Reading Architecture: Literary Imagination and Architectural Experience (Routledge, 2018), The Sound of Architecture: Acoustic Atmospheres in Place (Leuven University Press, 2022) and Architectures of Resistance: Negotiating Borders through Spatial Practices (Leuven University Press, 2024). 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 US.

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2024-09-30

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Vol. 18 No. 1 (2024): Issue # 34 | Narrating Shared Futures

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Visual Essay

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