Virtual Symposium

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Narrative Terrains: Navigating Fragmented Worlds is a two-day virtual symposium asking architects, writers, sculptors, community organizers, painters, and more to explore how storytelling and space structure their work across multiple media. In a time of global transformation—marked by ecological crisis, social upheaval, and shifting cultural existences—narrative has emerged as a critical tool for reclaiming memory, imagining futures, and reconfiguring the built environment. Narrative is also a politically contested tool, often hewing close to power, restricting nuance, and being weaponized for exclusionary political movements and “official accounts.” Narrative Terrains asks its participants and audience to wade into this difficult field and imagine new—and reformulated—methods for narrative resistance.

The symposium, held for the first time this spring, centers on the themes of “Fragments and Futures.” The participants will tangle with the importance of and difficulty with narrative to their work from design and art to teaching and community organizing. We will deal with the remnants of multiple pasts in the current world and imagine methods for storytelling with and toward multivocality, open frameworks, and space itself, beyond the word.

Visit the website to learn more: https://www.narrativeterrains.org/

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