Anotherscape is an archive of urban fiction that explores the connections between the two disciplines of architectural drawing and fictional writing. Collections contained in the archive are displayed to audiences as a mobile exhibition; it also includes briefs for further additions to the collection. The archive’s mobility reflects its key theme of urban fiction, which is specifically about places in the city of London. 

The project aims to build up a platform for sharing the narratives of places between architects of speculative drawings and writers of fictional works. Narratives are produced and shared in the archive by each participant through their respective media of drawing or writing. The common ground between architects and writers is their mutual interest in world-building: both architects and writers, in their different ways, are expressing the narratives of our living environments.

As a tool for inspiration, the archive represents a treasure-trove of diverse thinking and suggests a greater range of possibilities in the process of generating narratives, especially across different means of storytelling. As a platform for sharing, it proposes specific topics for the creation of fictions, which audiences can take as an exercise in alternative ways of thinking.