Writing Coaching Offer

I work with: Early-career academics /  Non-traditional students / Neurodiverse thinkers / Artists and researchers navigating institutional pressures / Senior Academics / Early Career and Established Professionals

Each coaching encounter is situational and tailored. Together, we develop strategies to overcome internal blocks, refine voice, and produce writing that is rigorous, imaginative, and meaningful.

Analytique: ‘In the Beaux-Arts tradition the understanding of the role of detail as a generator of the character of buildings [texts?] determined a very peculiar graphic means for the study of it, the analytique. In this graphic representation of a designed or surveyed building the details play the predominant role. They are composed in different scales in the attempt to single out the dialogue among the parts in the making of the text of the building. Sometimes the building as a whole is present in the drawing, and generally it is represented on a minuscule scale, and so it seems a detail among details.’ 

                                                                                                                                                                 (Marco Frascari, ‘The Tell-the-Tale Detail’, Via 7, 1984, p. 24)

This montage includes several examples of graphics by the great Italian Designer Massimo Vignelli (1931-2014), who often collaborated with his wife, Lella (1934-2016). Vignelli’s graphics have been a backdrop of my everyday, cultural, and educational life since the 1970s  

Working with AI in Writing and Research

One area of focus is generative AI. I help clients develop tactics for using AI effectively in research, writing, and editing—without over-trusting or over-depending on it. Having experimented with AI in teaching and research for nearly four years, I’ve seen immense improvements in language models. Yet biases and hallucinations persist. 

My coaching helps clients treat AI as a well-informed, obedient research assistant, not a substitute for critical thinking. We begin with a powerful insight from an ancient philosopher about what makes an effective prompter—an idea that transforms how we collaborate with generative systems.

Publications

I am also an author and architectural designer. My books include: Recoding Architecture Pedagogy: Insurgency and Invention (2025);  Materials and Meaning in Architecture: Essays on the Bodily Experience of Building (2020); Lefebvre for Architects (2015) Utopias and Architecture (2005), and Imagining and Making the World: Reconsidering Architecture and Utopia (2011), as editor. I’ve published numerous book chapters and journal articles, and present my research internationally.

Let’s Work Together

Curious about how coaching might support your writing, research, or creative practice? 

Let’s explore the possibilities together.

For more information contact me at: 

nathaniel.coleman@future-imaginaries.org  

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