On Experimental Writing | Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) : Albert Ferré, Pedro Gadanho, David Howes, Naomi Stead and Kazys Varnelis On Experimental Writing is an open discussion about different approaches to writing about architecture, urbanism and criticism today. These new endeavors begin by borrowing from the logic of other genres and forms like narratives, short stories, novels, science-fiction, journalism, poetry, tourist guides, ethnographic descriptions and others. This direction has generated interesting interdisciplinary results with an entertaining character, and one of the consequences is a growing interest from a less specialized public. There could be many reasons for these new directions: perhaps these ways of writing, or the use of different “editorial instruments”, have a greater capacity to describe and capture contemporary complexity, and more appropriately confront the world of architecture and urbanism. These experiments lead also to th...
