On 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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“Everybody is a cognitive mapper”
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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Speaker Insights | Workshop “Ethnography in Urban Settings” Day I
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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Fold-Up Mapping Booklet
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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Upcoming Workshop “Ethnography in Urban Settings”
Ethnography in Urban Settings Intersections. Methods. Visions. August 29 – 30, 2017 | Toronto Our first workshop Ethnography in Urban Settings: Intersections. Methods. Visions. will take place on August 29th and August 30th, 2017 in Toronto, Canada. The workshop will straddle the disciplinary boundaries of urban anthropology and human geography, with the intended purpose to promote rigorous…
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Welcome to the Methods
The Urban Ethnography Lab aims to experiment with new ethnographic methods for urban settings. We will periodically post about our events and activities related to this. Ethnography can be seen as a toolbox of various qualitative methods, it is not just one method to follow and answer the questions of your research, it is a…
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A Visit to Toronto
During the weeks of Oct. 10 and Oct. 24th, 2016, three graduate students from the University of Toronto Ethnography Lab (EL) and two graduate students from Humboldt University’s Georg-Simmel Centre for Metropolitan Studies (GSZ) engaged in an exchange project to initiate the establishment of a long-term transnational research collaboration under the working label of Urban…
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