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September 10, 2018December 6, 2018

Doing Urban Ethnography

Walking through the city, we aimed to capture its hidden symbolic logic, cultural, social and spatial codes in the research exercise during our KOSMOS Workshop “Beyond Urban Transformation”. What we capture is strongly influenced by our own attitudes, perceptions and attributions of meaning: the way we are socialized influences how we sense the city and…

September 20, 2017January 4, 2018

30 Shades of Spadina Ave.

The exercise for the “fieldwork excursion” for day one was folded and conceptualized by Carolin Genz and Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe. The first part of the walk was an exercise in learning to observe and sense the city. Starting at the corner of College Street and Spadina Avenue, the participants were asked to walk South –…

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.