In mid February previous winners of the Stadtlabor’s Multimodal Project Fund presented their research projects on a panel entitled “Urban Research by Other Means.” It was part of the Georg Simmel Days program of the Simmel Center for Urban Research at Humboldt University.
First up was the team from the Waschbärlin project (Maximilian Apel, Christine Maicher, Doreen Sauer, Amira Eistert), all MA students at the Institute for European Ethnology, who used their award to produce a compelling website on human-racoon relations in the city of Berlin.
Second came PhD student Imad Gebrayel, who shared how his Sonnenallee podcast became the right, if complex, medium for his research project “Shar’e al-‘Arab: Negotiations of Arab-Muslim Identifications in Sonnenallee.”
Finally, Jonas Möller presented the project “Kontaminiert werden. Forschen in den Ruinen der Reinheit” (Becoming Contaminated: Exploring the Ruins of Purity) on behalf of a team made up of himself, Vitor Garcia de Almeida, and Jann Mausen. He discussed the role of the Nature/Culture Instrumentarium, funded with the Multimodal Project Fund award, and how it was used in 2023 to advance the broader goals of their urban research project. You can check out a copy of their first magazine here.
For more information about the Multimodal Project fund, follow this link: https://www2.hu-berlin.de/stadtlabor/project/multimodal-projects-fund/
