Shaping Place - An urban conversation

An urban conversation

A meeting space for writers, urban designers, architects and planners interested in creativity and place, hosted by UrbanWords.

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Aidan Moesby is now friends with Jen Thomas and Sarah Butler

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The 1000 Verse Renga at Virtual and physical

October 29, 2009 at 6am to November 7, 2009 at 11:45pm

Please give us a 2 or 3 line verse (very very short lines) about something ordinary in your daily routine. Renga is a multi-verse multi-author poem and I am using the dynamics of renga to catch a social document effect at the same time with contr...

October 29

Alan Summers left a comment for Sarah Butler

October 29

Sylvia Evelyn updated their profile

October 10

Sylvia Evelyn is now a member of Shaping Place

Welcome Them!

October 10

Scott Brown updated their profile photo

October 5

Scott Brown commented on Sarah Butler's blog post 'Canal Club'

Firstly, I love the way Sarah's Canal Club story has been put together - right up my street (or canal). Getting people to engage with writing in a specific setting at a specific time is a real challenge. I've had a go at it myself once before, at...

October 3

Phil Rawle is now a member of Shaping Place

Welcome Them!

October 2

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Welcome to Shaping Place

Shaping Place is your space for conversations about creative writing and urban development. Here are some of our aims in setting it up:

- To provide a contained online space for interested people to discuss issues, share best practice, and test out ideas relating to how writers and urban design professionals can work together.

- To create a space for writers and urban design professionals to profile their work and interests.

- To enable people to get in touch with each other to take forward individual projects and conversations.

Please set up a profile page so other members can find out more about you, take part in the discussions, and add any relevant events you are involved with.

To find out more about UrbanWords, please visit our website: www.urbanwords.org.uk

Forum

Literature, Books recommended reading... 3 Replies

Started by Richard Byford in General conversations about place and writing. Last reply by Richard Byford Sep 29.

Gallery in a Caravan 3 Replies

Started by Richard Byford in Improvements and Feedback. Last reply by Richard Byford Sep 29.

Following on from NALD training day (24th Sept)

Started by Sarah Butler in Literature and Regeneration - An Introduction: Following on from NALD training day (24th Sept 09) Sep 24.

Blog Posts

Canal Club

I spent three days last week on the Canal Club, on the Leeds-Liverpool Canal (towards the Liverpool end) as part of Urbanism 09. I was commissioned by… Continue

Posted by Sarah Butler on September 22, 2009 at 5:59pm — 1 Comment

Write Up of Writers Shaping Places on www.rudi.net

Please feel free to send this link to anyone you think might be interested: http://www.rudi.net/node/21443

Posted by Sarah Butler on July 21, 2009 at 12:27pm

The lost photograph from Chris's presentation

Why is it that whenever you do a presentation involving computers, something goes wrong? Chris Meade handled the fact that his carefully prepared slide presentation refused to work at the Writers Shaping Place event this week with great aplomb. One of the photos he was unable to show is up on his blog now - take a look: http://bookfutures.blogspot.com/2009/07/stuff-and-things.html

Posted by Sarah Butler on July 2, 2009 at 11:15am

Writers Shaping Places - A Response

As a poet, I've had plenty of discussions around the questions 'why write?' and 'what's so important about words?'. Whilst I've definitely heard some compelling answers, it’s sometimes difficult to shift the suspicion that writing is essentially a self-absorbed activity, that even though people might enjoy reading or listening to it, its lasting effect lives more with the writer than the receiver. So to sit in a room full of people addressing the impact of writing on something as real and coloss… Continue

Posted by Miriam@UrbanWords on July 1, 2009 at 12:30pm