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Narrating Hiedanranta – Public events on 8.-10.6.2022

Landscape of Hiedanranta with buildings, graffiti and construction work.
© Aleksi Martikainen

Welcome to the public events organized within the framework of the COST Action international workshop, Narrating Hiedanranta: Stories of Objects and Subjects of Urban Places, held 8 – 10 June 2022 in Tampere. The workshop explores exciting participatory visual and narrative methods to gather, understand and retell the stories of local activists in Hiedanranta and their relationship to their sites of action. These events are open to the general public regardless of participation in the workshop and are free of charge. The events are supported by STUE.

On 8 June 2022, join us in Hiedanranta at 14.00 to hear about Luc Pauwels exciting Visual Methods. Luc Pauwels is Professor of Visual Social Sciences (visual sociology, visual anthropology and visual communication) at the University of Antwerp and has published extensively about visual research methodologies. Later that evening, accompany us to the short-film evening, Grassroots Stories of Tampere, presented at Raina Café & Bar starting at 20.00 where Elina Alatalo and I, will take you in a journey through Tampere to learn about different forms of activism unfolding in the city and the ways in which these grassroots actions are transforming urban plans, policies, and spaces.

We start the next day, 9 June at 10.00 in Hiedanranta, with a thought-provoking keynote lecture by Jeremy Hawkins to learn about the power of Poetic Practices. He is currently a teacher at the Strasbourg National School of Architecture on topics ranging from architectural language, to creative writing design, and narrating design projects and he explores how creative writing and poetic practices can impact spatial design processes, notably in architecture and urbanism, and how design environments can in turn influence writing done within or alongside them.

The outcomes of the three-day intensive workshop will be presented in Hiedanranta on 10 June 2022 from 16.00 – 18.00 in the makeshift exhibition, Co-constructed Stories.

Visual methods

Keynote lecture by Luc Pauwels
8 June 2022 // 14.00 – 15.30
Lielahden Kartano – Hiedanranta // Tehdaskartanonkatu 38, 33400 Tampere

Grassroots stories of Tampere

Short-film Evening
8 June 2022 // 20.00 – 22.00
Raina Cafe & Bar // Kehräsaari B, 33200 Tampere

Poetic practices

Keynote lecture by Jeremy Hawkins
9 June 2022 // 10.00 – 11.00
Lielahden Kartano – Hiedanranta // Tehdaskartanonkatu 38, 33400 Tampere

Co-constructed stories

Makeshift Exhibition
10 June 2022 // 16.00 – 18.00
Jukola – Hiedanranta // Tehdaskartanonkatu 36, 33400 Tampere

This workshop and accompanying events are organized within the framework of the COST Action CA18126 – Writing Urban Places. The local organizing team is comprised of the Insurgent Spatial Practices (research collective), the School of Architecture , and the Department of Environmental Policy at Tampere University and is supported by STUE (Sustainable Transformation of Urban Environments) .

More information:

Narrating Hiedanranta Workshop

Elina Alatalo, elina.alatalo@tuni.fi

Dalia Milián Bernal, dalia.milianbernal@tuni.fi

Panu Lehtovuori, panu.lehtovuori@tuni.fi