Atlas of Urban Mythologies

The LINA Writing Award is a collaboration between the Irish Architecture Foundation and dpr-barcelona, with the aim to create a reasoned dialogue between the emergent creatives, enhancing collaboration and knowledge exchange along the process. dpr-barcelona and the Irish Architecture Foundation are inviting writers to join LINA exploration of the worlds, landscapes and realities faced by emerging practices shaping future urban environments, with special focus on new narratives and storytelling supporting clean, circular and sustainable projects.

The author of the publication is selected from the yearly LINA Open Call and receives a Writing Grant of 3,000€ to produce the work, which is published both in printed and digital format. Rather than a descriptive oeuvre, we are seeking for new stories, myths and fictions. Applications from young writers are especially welcome.

Atlas of Urban Mythologies by Francesca Cocchiara / Sergios Strigklogiannis.

Lina Writing Award 2: Urban Mythologies by Francesca Cocchiara and Sergios Strigklogiannis. This project is sensitive to the need for new narratives to describe contemporary urban challenges, moving away from conventional dichotomies. Cocchiara and Strigklogiannis consider complexities and differences when addressing the spatial manifestations of inequality, urban poverty, gentrification, spatial injustice and the citizen initiatives defending the urban commons in Athens and elsewhere. Urban Mythologies will bring cultural sensitivity and creative, myth-making flair to address these issues in an imaginative and potentially transformative way. Believing in the power of storytelling, their intent is to reveal otherwise invisible urban issues and narrate them through the city’s untold stories, myths, and tales.