Learning from Literature and Heritage

Stories of Shared Futures Yet to be Told

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https://doi.org/10.59490/footprint.18.1.7738

Abstract

This editorial is an introduction to the issue of Footprint 34, ‘Narrating Shared Futures’. The issue is dedicated to a transdisciplinary encounter between literature and cultural heritage, namely, here we seek to understand how literature can help us unpack complex meanings of places of heritage, and use that knowledge to imagine, design and produce shared and inclusive futures. We elaborate on three notions that appear in the title of the issue – ‘narrating’, ‘shared’ and ‘futures’ – and then we explain how each of the articles featured in this volume contributes to the proposed framing. We conclude with a brief discussion of ways in which the past, present and future are constantly being made in-the-now through both literary and design techniques.

Author Biographies

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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