For me, writing is the way of thinking, making sense of and organizing what I know, as well as a creative practice I enjoy to do. While recently, my focus has been on academic writing, I like writing different kinds of texts. Recently, I co-edited Repository, a book about methods to unearth, understand, and construct urban narratives. In 2020, I co-founded the collective feminist blog Interrogativa, where we invited diverse women from all over the world to engage with a question related to women and their relationship to urban space. I contributed to several posts in this blog.
I have organized my publications as peer-reviewed scientific publications, non-refereed scientific publications, publications for professional communities, and publications for general public. Even though peer-reviewed publications are intended for academic communities, I always aim to write in way that engages communities outside disciplinary boundaries and I encourage and practice creative writing in academic publications. In my view, this is an intrinsic feminist and decolonial move that challenges Eurocentric, androcentric, disassociated, and anonymous forms of writing about the outcomes of our research and a way to democratize knowledge.
Peer-reviewed scientific publications
Milián Bernal, D. (2023). Challenging methodologies: Deploying liberatory epistemologies to unlock creative research practices. Qualitative Research, pp. 1 – 21. Read
Alatalo, E., Turku, V., Milián Bernal, D., Kyrönviita, M. (2023). Learning Urban Activism: A Retrospective Look at How to Engage Students. In Chudoba, M., & Griffiths, G. (Eds.). Curious Pedagogy: Reflections on Urban Planning Education.Tampere: Tampere University, pp. 169 – 194. Read
Milián Bernal, D. (2022). Narratives of Appropriation: Abandoned Spaces, Entangled Stories, and Profound Urban Transformations. Writingplace Journal, 6, 69–89. Read
Milián Bernal, D. (2020). Temporary Uses of Vacant and Abandoned Urban Spaces in Latin America: An Exploration. In Built Environment and Architecture as a Resource: Proceeding Series. (1 ed., Vol. 2020, pp. 181-209). (The NAAR Proceedings Series) Nordic Association of Architectural Research. Read
Non-refereed scientific publications
Milián Bernal, D. (2019). Re-imaginando el espacio público en los intersticios del vacío y el abandono en las ciudades latinoamericanas. In Anais do II Congresso Ibero-americano de História Urabana, 2019 (Vol. 2, pp. 2435-2448). (Anais II CIHU).
Milián Bernal, D., Moreno, M., and Morales, V. (2015). Análisis volumétrico para contribuir al diseño de una casa solar energéticamente eficiente. XXII encuentro Participación de la Mujer en la Ciencia. León, Mexico. ISSN 2448-5063.
Milián Bernal, D., Hernández Carpintero, R., Corona Hernández, F.D., and Moreno, M. (2015). Concepto energético pasivo para contribuir al diseño de una casa de mínimo impacto ambiental. Academia Journals. 7 (4), 3656-3661. Celaya, Mexico. Online: ISBN 1946-5351. Book CD: Compendio Investigativo de Academia Journals. ISBN 978-1-939982-18-6.
Publications for professional communities
Milián Bernal, D., Machado e Moura, C. (2023). Unearthing Urban Narratives: Towards a Repository of Methods. In Havik, K., & Oliveira, S. (Eds.). Writingplace, No. 8 – 9. Read
Milián Bernal, D., Alatalo, E., Hawkins, J., Lehtovuori, P. (2023). Co-constructed Narratives of the Grassroots in the City: Narrating Hiedanranta. In Havik, K., & Oliveira, S. (Eds.). Writingplace, No. 8 – 9. Read
Machado e Moura, C., Milián Bernal, D., Restrepo Restrepo, E., Havik, K., & Niculae, L. (Eds.) (2023). REPOSITORY: 49 Methods and Assignments for Writing Urban Places. Rotterdam: nai010 Publishers. Read
Milián Bernal, D. (2023). Storying Stories. In C. Machado e Moura, D. Milián Bernal, E. Restrepo Restrepo, K. Havik & L. Niculae (Eds.) REPOSITORY: 49 Methods and Assignments for Writing Urban Places. Rotterdam: nai010 Publishers, pp. 166 – 169. Read
Kobierska, A., Milián Bernal, D., Pelsmakers, S. (2023). Activism is a Way to Build Small Utopias. ark ARKKITEHTI, (3), 51-55. Read
Milián Bernal, D. (2020). Abandonment. In K. Havik, K. Pint, S. Riesto & H. Steiner (Eds.), VADEMECUM: 77 Minor Terms for Writing Urban Places, 18-19. Rotterdam: nai010 Publishers. Read
Milián Bernal, D., & Lehtovuori, P. (2019). Split Level: A story of ruptures and their appropriations. Estonian Architectural Review – Maja, 68–75. Read
Publications for general public
Milián Bernal, D. & Säkkinen, V. (2021). Emergent Identities. In -ism architecture magazine, 73–82.
Milián Bernal, D. (2020, May 15). Socially distanced… well, only from people. Writing Urban Places – Socially distanced. Read
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