Ella Chmielewska

MEng(ABD), BA(Hons), MUP, PhD (McGill)

 

University of Edinburgh

School of Architecture and Landscape

 

Senior Lecturer

Cultural and Visual Studies

 

Programme Director

PhD/MPhil Cultural Studies

 

ella.chmielewska@ed.ac.uk

+44 (0) 131 651 3736

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

 

Ella Chmielewska, Warsaw Afterimages: Of Walls and Memories in Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Mattias Kärrholm (eds) Urban Walls: Political and Cultural Meanings of Vertical Structures and Surfaces. (London and New York: Routledge, 2018): 119-143.

 

Ella Chmielewska. Afterword, "Postscript as Pretext" in Mark Dorrian, Writing on the Image: Architecture, the City and the Politics of Representation. (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2015): 186-203.

 

Ella Chmielewska, Pamięć Miejsca. Tablice. Archiwum. Pracownia. (Place. Memory: Tablets. Archive. Studio.) Figury Retoryczne: Warszawska Rzeżba Architektoniczna, 1918-1970. Warszawa: Muzeum Narodowe, 2015: 81-108.

 

Ella Chmielewska, 'Writing with the photograph: espacement, description and an architectural text in action" in Anna Dahlgren, Nina Lager Vestberg, and Dag Patersson (Eds.) Representational Machines: Photography and the Production of Space. Aarhus University Press: 2013: 83-105

 

Ella Chmielewska, ‘Vectors of Looking: Reflections on the Luftwaffe’s Aerial Survey of Warsaw, 1944.” in Mark Dorrian and Frédéric Pousin (Eds). Seeing from Above: The Aerial View in Visual Culture. London: I.B.Tauris, 2013: 227-248

 

Chmielewska, Ella “Vecteurs du regard: Réflections sur les relevés aériens de Varsovie par la Luftwaffe, 1944”, Mark Dorrian et Frédéric Pousin, (Eds) Vues aériennes. Études pour une histoire culturelle. Genève: Mētispresses, 2012: 179-196.

 

Ella Chmielewska, “Stillness” in Stasus, Resilience, Pamphlet 32, Princeton Architectural Press, 2012. 22-25.

 

Ella Chmielewska and Sebastian Schmidt-Tomczak "The critical where of the field: collaboration as a situated practice of creative research" in Ewing, Suzanne et al, Architecture and Field/Work, London and New York: Routledge, 2010: 101-109.

 

Ella Chmielewska, “Semiosis Takes Place or the Radical Uses of Quaint Theories” in Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow (Eds) Semiotic Landscapes: Language, Image, Space. London: Continuum, 2010: 274-292.

 

Mark Dorrian and Ella Chmielewska (Eds) “Warszawa: Tracking the City” special issue of The Journal of Architecture, Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge, 2010, 15, 1.

 

Ella Chmielewska, Agnieszka Chmielewska, Mariusz Tchorek, Paul Carter, “A Warsaw Address: a dossier on 36, Smolna Street, The Journal of Architecture, vol 15, issue 1, February 2010: 7-38.

 

Ella Chmielewska, “Material errata: Warsaw neons and socialist modernity.” The Journal of Architecture, vol 15, issue 1, February 2010: 53-70.

 

Joachim Gentz with the collaboration of Ella Chmielewska, Hanna Sommerseth and Jack Burton, Keywords Re-Oriented. Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2009.

 

“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.

 

“A methodological parkour or, towards orientation as implacement.” in Design2context, Reudi Baur, Stefanie-Vera Kockot, Clemens Bellut, Ulrike Felsing, Andrea Gleininger (Eds). Orientierung_Desorientierung2. Baden: Lars Müller Publishers, 2009: 244-250.

 

“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. Trento: professionaldreamers, 2009: 31-46.

 

“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, Vien: Böhlau 2005): 243-255, Fig. 1-6.

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