While publishing is essential for shaping a scholarly profile, the craft of writing often remains under-explored in formal academic training. NWIB Visiting Professor, Gabriel Schwake (VU Amsterdam), recently led a writing workshop for PhD candidates in planning history at the NIKI in Florence—helping to open up that very process. Through individual feedback, peer exchange, and collective discussion, participants engaged directly with the structure, style, and strategic framing of academic texts. The focus was not only on what we write, but how we write—treating the academic article as both a tool of dissemination and a form of scholarly argument shaped by disciplinary norms.

The workshop was co-hosted by Stephen Ramos (University of Georgia) and Filippo De Pieri (Politecnico di Torino), with participants from institutions across Europe and beyond: Eugenio Lux (Politecnico di Torino), Francesco Lipparini (Università di Bologna), Giacomo Serangeli (Università di Firenze), Marine Bally (EPHE, Paris), Saurajeeta Bose Paul (Tsinghua University & Politecnico di Torino), and Tymon Wolender (Politecnico di Torino).