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Research paper thumbnail of Vademecum. 77 Minor Terms for Writing Urban Places

by Svava Riesto, Kris Pint, Nevena Dakovic, Dalia Dijokienė, Juan A. García-Esparza, Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech, Karen Lens, Adriana Martins, Asma Mehan, Bie Plevoets, Angelos Theocharis, Jana Culek, Lamila Simisic, Mirza Emirhafizović, and Inesa Kurtinaitienė

Vademecum. 77 Minor Terms for Writing Urban Places, 2020

Words help us to make sense of what happens in the city, and the words we use to describe urban p... more Words help us to make sense of what happens in the city, and the words we use to describe urban places imply a specific outlook. This book offers 77 concepts in the hope that they will stimulate new ways of describing and narrating European cities. The concepts are less obvious, “minor” terms that can nevertheless be used to write European cities anew, in ways that emphasize the local, alternative, disenfranchised, and overlooked. Minor concepts can reveal blind spots in urban discourse, or bring insights from one discipline or language to another.

Vademecum means walk with me, and we imagine this book as a field guide you can carry in your pocket while you explore real-life urban places. The arbitrary number of 77 terms captures a particular moment in a experiential collective process among 40 European researchers during the COVID-19 lockdown. This process brought together perspectives from different disciplines and urban settings—from Lithuania to Portugal, from Ireland to Croatia.

An incomplete and open-ended book, it is also an invitation for readers to add their own “minor concepts,” to open new perspectives and write urban places anew.

Edited by Klaske Havik, Kris Pint, Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner. NAi Publishers.

Papers by Juan A. García-Esparza

Research paper thumbnail of A GIS-based methodology for the appraisal of historical, architectural, and social values in historic urban cores

Frontiers of Architectural Research

Research paper thumbnail of Engaging architectural heritage in climate action

VITRUVIO - International Journal of Architectural Technology and Sustainability

The ICOMOS Working Group on Climate Change and Cultural Heritage have recently released an Outlin... more The ICOMOS Working Group on Climate Change and Cultural Heritage have recently released an Outline of Climate Change and Cultural Heritage.

Research paper thumbnail of The Heritagization of a Mediterranean Vernacular Mountain Landscape: Concepts, Problems and Processes

Research paper thumbnail of Are World Heritage concepts of integrity and authenticity lacking in dynamism? A critical approach to Mediterranean autotopic landscapes

Research paper thumbnail of A multi-analysis characterization of medieval and vernacular coating mortars in rural Valencia (Spain): An experimental study for a Heritage Action Plan

Journal of Cultural Heritage

Research paper thumbnail of Procedure for evaluating and refurbishing envelopes of obsolete buildings in warm regions

Advances in Building Energy Research, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Epistemological paradigms in the perception and assessment of vernacular architecture

International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Barracas on the Mediterranean Coast

International Journal of Architectural Heritage, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Barracas on the Mediterranean Coast

International Journal of Architectural Heritage, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Vademecum. 77 Minor Terms for Writing Urban Places

by Svava Riesto, Kris Pint, Nevena Dakovic, Dalia Dijokienė, Juan A. García-Esparza, Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech, Karen Lens, Adriana Martins, Asma Mehan, Bie Plevoets, Angelos Theocharis, Jana Culek, Lamila Simisic, Mirza Emirhafizović, and Inesa Kurtinaitienė

Vademecum. 77 Minor Terms for Writing Urban Places, 2020

Words help us to make sense of what happens in the city, and the words we use to describe urban p... more Words help us to make sense of what happens in the city, and the words we use to describe urban places imply a specific outlook. This book offers 77 concepts in the hope that they will stimulate new ways of describing and narrating European cities. The concepts are less obvious, “minor” terms that can nevertheless be used to write European cities anew, in ways that emphasize the local, alternative, disenfranchised, and overlooked. Minor concepts can reveal blind spots in urban discourse, or bring insights from one discipline or language to another.

Vademecum means walk with me, and we imagine this book as a field guide you can carry in your pocket while you explore real-life urban places. The arbitrary number of 77 terms captures a particular moment in a experiential collective process among 40 European researchers during the COVID-19 lockdown. This process brought together perspectives from different disciplines and urban settings—from Lithuania to Portugal, from Ireland to Croatia.

An incomplete and open-ended book, it is also an invitation for readers to add their own “minor concepts,” to open new perspectives and write urban places anew.

Edited by Klaske Havik, Kris Pint, Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner. NAi Publishers.

Research paper thumbnail of A GIS-based methodology for the appraisal of historical, architectural, and social values in historic urban cores

Frontiers of Architectural Research

Research paper thumbnail of Engaging architectural heritage in climate action

VITRUVIO - International Journal of Architectural Technology and Sustainability

The ICOMOS Working Group on Climate Change and Cultural Heritage have recently released an Outlin... more The ICOMOS Working Group on Climate Change and Cultural Heritage have recently released an Outline of Climate Change and Cultural Heritage.

Research paper thumbnail of The Heritagization of a Mediterranean Vernacular Mountain Landscape: Concepts, Problems and Processes

Research paper thumbnail of Are World Heritage concepts of integrity and authenticity lacking in dynamism? A critical approach to Mediterranean autotopic landscapes

Research paper thumbnail of A multi-analysis characterization of medieval and vernacular coating mortars in rural Valencia (Spain): An experimental study for a Heritage Action Plan

Journal of Cultural Heritage

Research paper thumbnail of Procedure for evaluating and refurbishing envelopes of obsolete buildings in warm regions

Advances in Building Energy Research, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Epistemological paradigms in the perception and assessment of vernacular architecture

International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Barracas on the Mediterranean Coast

International Journal of Architectural Heritage, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Barracas on the Mediterranean Coast

International Journal of Architectural Heritage, 2010