Methods

The Urban Ethnography Lab (UELab) explores a variety of methods that are employed in carrying out fieldwork in urban settings.

Among other methods, the UELab experiments with techniques in adapting the writing of ethnographic fieldnotes (as “thick description”) to high-density experiential and sensorial environments, works to increase the visibility of “go-alongs” as part of the ethnographic toolkit, and promotes the value produced by the visual aesthetics and rigor of various types of ethnographic mappings.

Mapping

Go-Alongs

Field-Notes

Cognitive Mapping

Go-Along

Field-Note Writing

I: Cognitive Mapping: UEL-Workshop “Ethnography in Urban Settings”, Toronto 2017
II: Go-Along: Summer School Metropolitan Studies “Rethinking Berlin’s Housing Question”, Berlin 2016
III: Field-Note Writing: UEL-KOSMOS Workshop “Beyond Urban Transformation”, Berlin 2018

Urban Ethnography Lab

The Urban Ethnography Lab is an initiative by scholars from the Humboldt University’s Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies, the Institute for Contemporary Design Practices HGK in Basel, the Department of Social and Cultural Geography from Humboldt-University of Berlin and University of Toronto’s Ethnography Lab.

As one of the Urban Research Groups at the Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies the Urban Ethnography Lab is a growing centre that promotes ethnographic research methods in the interdisciplinary section of urban studies.

I: Cognitive Mapping: UEL-Workshop “Ethnography in Urban Settings”, Toronto 2017 II: Go-Along: Summer School Metropolitan Studies “Rethinking Berlin’s Housing Question”, Berlin 2016 III: Field-Note Writing: UEL-KOSMOS Workshop “Beyond Urban Transformation”, Berlin 2018

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I: Cognitive Mapping: UEL-Workshop “Ethnography in Urban Settings”, Toronto 2017
II: Go-Along: Summer School Metropolitan Studies “Rethinking Berlin’s Housing Question”, Berlin 2016
III: Field-Note Writing: UEL-KOSMOS Workshop “Beyond Urban Transformation”, Berlin 2018