TURNS Writing Camp 2025
- Time: 13-15 August 2025, 9-17 daily
- Venue: Scandic Rosendahl (address: Pyynikintie 13, Tampere)
- Free of charge (note that the registration is binding)
- Call for applications is closed.
- Max 15 places. The event is full.
TURNS Writing Camp offers an opportunity for uninterrupted and focused writing in a socially supportive and calm environment with peers and colleagues. Delicious meals are included in the camp (breakfast, lunch, and afternoon coffee), and the beautiful lake scenery makes a good setting for creative work.
The focus of the camp is on writing, so we invite participants to work on their own texts – whether a PhD thesis, article, or some other academic or popular text related to urban research during the camp.
Applying for the camp
The writing camp is meant for the early career urban researchers at Tampere University (PhD students and the researchers with less than 2 years from obtaining the PhD degree). At priority are those who did not participate the TURNS Writing Camp 2024. If there are more than 15 applicants, the places will be drawn.
Apply by 27 June 2025. The applicants are informed by 30 June whether they are accepted to the camp. Note that participation is binding, so if you need to cancel your participation, you should contact the organizers (riina.lundman@tuni.fi) as soon as possible. In case of cancellation, we kindly ask you to find someone to replace you.
In 2025, the event will be organized as a day camp. We hope that the participants could join the whole camp (3 days). If this is not possible, one can also apply for 1-2 days. Those who wish can stay over-night in the Scandic Rosendahl hotel at one’s own cost and book the nights themselves.
Daily program
- 9:00 Coffee + breakfast
- 9:15 Preparing for writing
- 9:30 Shut up & Write (3 sessions)
- 11:30 Lunch
- 12:15 Walking in nature
- 13:00 Flexible program: discussions about writing, free writing, or Shut up and Write
- 14:30 Coffee
- 14:45 Shut up and Write (2 sessions)
- 16:15 Free writing*
- 16:45 Wrap up
- 17:00 Official program ends
* Wed 13 August at 16-17 : Lecture & discussion by Klaske Havik: Registers of Writing: Academic, Experimental, Poetic
Klaske Havik is a Professor of Methods of Analysis and Imagination at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology.
Evening program (voluntary)
- Wednesday: Walking on Pyynikki Ridge
- Thursday: Swimming on Pyynikki Beach
- Friday: Afterwork in the city centre
More information: Riina Lundman (riina.lundman@tuni.fi) / TURNS