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Dr Ella Chmielewska
BA (Winnipeg), MUP (McGill), PhD (McGill)
Lecturer in Cultural Studies
Room 3.3a The Maltings
Tel: +44 (0) 131 651 3736
email:Ella.Chmielewska@ed.ac.uk
Architecture: School of Arts, Culture and Environment (ACE)
The University of Edinburgh
20 Chambers Street
Edinburgh
Scotland
UK
EH1 1JZ
Profile
My work in cultural studies focuses on the relationships between text and image; language and material presence; and urban objects and their representation(s). In my exploration of urban cultures and visual practices I use photography as both research tool and as instrument of documentation and presentation. The primary questions my research asks are: How do objects and texts, material contexts and spatial experiences, linguistic markings and modes of inscription figure in visual landscapes and in visual practices? How do they inform our (visual) knowledges, cultural identities, and disciplinary (sup)positions?
In my research and teaching, I focus on the methodological potential of the visual essay, multimodal representations, curatorial practices and critical pedagogy in productively complicating the relationships between the disciplines of architecture and cultural studies, as well as between visual practice and visual theory. I am particularly interested in exploring site specificity, visual archives, fieldwork and design studio practices in the processes of cultural and disciplinary translations and transpositions.
Publications
"Framing Temporality: Montréal Graffiti in Photography" in Annie Gérin and James S. McLean (Eds) Public Art in Canada: Critical Perspectives. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 2009: 271-291.
" Niepamiec w upamietnianiu: szczególnosc miejsc traumy a typowosc pamieci w ikonosferze Warszawy" in Katarzyna Chudzimska-Uhera and Bartlomiej Gutowski (Eds) Rzezba w Polsce (1945-2008) Centrum Rzezby Polskiej, Oronsko 2008: 101-106.
"Writing on the Ruins or Graffiti as a Design Gesture. On the Paradoxes of Lettering Place and History." Edinburgh Architecture Research, volume 31, 2008: 7-15.
"Neonization of Warsaw" on|site, Streets Issue 19, 2008.
"The wall as witness-surface / Il muro come superficie di testimonianza" in lo Squaderno no. 8, June 2008. Uses of Walls / Usi dei muri / a cura di / edited by Andrea Mubi Brighenti, Duccio Dogheria.
"Sites of display: iconosphere of Warsaw, 1955 to the present day." in Peter Martyn (Ed) City in Art. Warsaw: Institute of Art, 2007: 135-152, fig. 1-51.
"Fiat Lux! Cold War Neons, Modernity and the Metropolis" in Igor Dukhan (Ed) Avant-Garde and Cultures: Art, Design and Cultural Environment. Minsk, Bielarus: UNESCO/Kulturmomente, The Center for Visual Arts and Media, Belarusian State University, 2007: 139-146.
"Signs of Place: 1960s neons in Warsaw". Edinburgh Review, Made in Poland: New writing from Poland. no 21, 2007.
" Framing [Con]text: Graffiti and Place." Space and Culture, 2007 (10) 2:145-169.
"Wspólmyslenie o wspóldzialaniu" Sztuka i filozofia, 29-2006, Uniwersytet Warszawski - Instytut Filozofii, Wydawnictwo Naukowe SCHOLAR. (with Bazenowa, Elwich, Gutowska, Szparaga).
"Logos or the Resonance of Branding", Space and Culture, 2005 (8) 4: 356-380.
"Signs of Place: A Close Reading of the Visual Landscape of Warsaw." in Arnold Bartetzky, Marina Dmitrieva and Stefan Troebst (Eds) Neue Staaten - neue Bilder? Visualle Kulture im Dienst staatlicher Selbstdarstellung in Zentral - und Osteuropa seit 1918. (Köln, Weimar, Wien: Böhlau 2005): 243-255, Fig. 1-6.
Publications - Forthcoming
"Semiosis Takes Place or the Radical Uses of Quaint Theories" in Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow (Eds) Semiotic Landscapes: Language, Image, Space. London: Continuum, 2009.
Text and the City, Universitätsverlag Göttingen 2009.
"Writing on the Ruins or Graffiti as a Design Gesture." in Andrea Mubi Brighenti (Ed) The Wall and the City/Il muro e la cittá/ Le mur et la ville. Milano: Mimesis/ Il Brennero-Der Brenner, 2009.
"A methodological parcour or, towards orientation as implacement" in Design2context, Reudi Baur, Stefanie-Vera Kockot, Clemens Bellut, Ulrike Felsing, Andrea Gleininger. Orientierung_Desorientierung. Baden: Lars Müller Publishers, 2009.
"Warszawa: Tracking the City" special issue of Journal of Architecture, co-edited with Mark Dorrian, 2009.
Current Research
TRACKING THE CITY
ReMAPPING the EAST
interKULTUR
Urban Logos
Cold War Neons
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