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We are in the middle of the last preparations for our upcoming KOSMOS Workshop “Beyond Urban Transformation” and very look forward to welcoming you very soon at Humboldt-University of Berlin at Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies. Wishing all our participants and speakers safe travels. Enjoy your first days exploring Berlin! The workshop will…
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The final program for our upcoming KOSMOS workshop “BEYOND URBAN TRANSFORMATION. Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Urban Everyday Life” is out now. We are very looking forward to meeting excellent and inspiring speakers & participants from all over the world to widen our perspectives on urban commons and resilience. For more information please have a look into our…
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The final program for our upcoming KOSMOS workshop BEYOND URBAN TRANSFORMATION. Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Urban Everyday Life is out now. We are very looking forward to meeting excellent and inspiring speakers & participants from all over the world to widen our perspectives on urban commons and resilience. For more information please have a look into…
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Our upcoming public keynote is part of the KOSMOS Workshop “Beyond Urban Transformation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urban Everyday Life”, organized by the Urban Ethnography Lab and funded by the Excellence Initiative by Humboldt-University of Berlin, hosted at Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies, September 5-8, 2018 in Berlin. Prof. Dr. Alexa Färber Institute for European Ethnology, University of Vienna,…
Read MoreA new blog post entitled “The Urban Ethnography Lab Launches Second Workshop on Urban Transformations from the Perspective of Urban Everyday Life” has been published by the University of Toronto School of Cities. The School of Cities promotes research, teaching, and engagement with cities through a community of more than 220 faculty members and researchers…
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333. This is how many applications we received for our upcoming KOSMOS Workshop “Beyond Urban Transformation” in September in Berlin, Germany. Thank you very much for your huge interest in the workshop and your submissions for participation. The committee is very looking forward to reviewing your submissions. We will be in touch with you by…
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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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