Explore and Experience the Urban Field
CfP | CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS The workshop brings together senior and junior scholars from urban anthropology, human geography and design to collaborate on researching how urban transformation can be studied ethnographically from the perspective of urban everyday practice along the topics of urban commons and resilience. The KOSMOS Workshop is funded by the Excellence Initiative by Humboldt-University of Berlin and hosted at Georg-Simmel…
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The Urban Ethnography Lab is pleased to announce that Carolin Genz (PhD and Research Fellow, Cultural and Social Geography, Humboldt-University of Berlin), Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe (PhD Candidate in Anthropology and Middle East Studies, Doctor of Design (2012), Harvard University), Jessika Tremblay (PhD Candidate in the University of Toronto Department of Anthropology. UofT) and Emily Hertzman (Postdoctoral Fellow, Munk School of…
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The first part of Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe’s presentation was concluded with a group exercise on sensory mapping through smellscapes. She offered a variety of scents to the participants, from environment to consumption goods (dirt, fresh grass, dust, pipe tobacco, rye bread). The task was not to guess the smell, but to discuss and define with a partner…
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If we walk through the city and try to capture its hidden symbolic logic and cultural codes we are all influenced by our very own attitudes and perceptions, as well as our professional and social education. We might see the same city, but we see it in very different ways, with a different mindset. What could…
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DAY II | Workshop “Ethnography in Urban Settings” The speakers for the second day of the workshop brought together three major themes around urban ethnography: digitizing, collaborating, and conjuring. In a nutshell, digitizing ethnography highlights how researchers need to take seriously and know how to handle digital data while doing research in urban settings. Digital…
Read MoreDAY II | MAPPING EXERCISE The Ethnography in Urban Settings workshop included two mapping exercises; one on each day. On day one the workshop participants went out to sense the city and to try to map what they experienced, what they imagined in urban space, focusing on using their bodies and their own subjectivities and…
Read MoreOn the second day of the Ethnography in Urban Context workshop, the three speakers each focused on themes relating to their own research. Tying the talks together was an overarching theme that about how best to connect rigorous ethnographic methods to urban research. The speakers for the first day were Jessika Tremblay, Emily Hertzman, and…
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Cognitive Mapping Exercise | Day 1 Which spaces/places matter for you the most, and how are they spatially connected? Mapping (Cognitive Mapping) helps to get access to interpretations of symbolic structures of the city (Greverus 1972, 1994). One can understand a map as “legible notes”. Mapping helps to get access to the spatial and social…
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For the first day of the Workshop we had three speakers for inspiration, sharing thoughts, discussions, and experience on the urban ethnographic methods in the interdisciplinary intersections of Urban Anthropology, Design and Geography. The three different presentations aimed to generate new ideas and visions to develop our understanding of urban settings and their social, spatial…
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We are getting excited during the preparations for the upcoming workshop “Ethnography in Urban Settings”. For our mapping exercise we designed a fold-up mapping booklet with a focus on the question: “How to capture what you are sensing?” Walking through the city and trying to capture its hidden symbolic logic, cultural, social and spatial codes is…
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