Urban Anthropology Stadtlabor

The "Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology" aims at developing ‘an anthropology of/as urbanism’. It critically explores governmental, everyday, insurgent and more-than-human practices of city making. It also experiments with ethnography as a more-than-textual, multimodal practice.

Partners

Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies, HU Berlin

Re-Figuration of Spaces (SFB 1265)

xcol. An Ethnographic Inventory

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Email: stadtlabor@hu-berlin.de

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Announcements

From the Archive of Multimodal Projects: Sensing the Street³

Anthropology has never been monomodal, although it may seem that the recent explosion of interest in multimodal, more-than-textual research would suggest otherwise. So we are always on the lookout for multimodal examples from our discipline’s past. In this post we highlight the recent discovery of an experimental multimodal urban research project from the history of our own institute, dating back almost two decades.

Sounding Berlin: Towards an Apparatus for Atmospheric Attunement

What are the possibilities that open up when different modalities of research practice are employed in collaboration with others, with the goal of attuning ourselves to intersensorial phenomena that may exceed any single ethnographer’s ability to grasp? What kinds of values can we create when we give up proprietary notions of research practice and production?

MULTIMODAL RESEARCH DEVICES

The Stadtlabor invites to the third and last event in the Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology’s Event Series for the Summer Semester 2023:

Illustrating Research

The Stadtlabor invites to the second event in the Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology’s Event Series for the Summer Semester 2023:

Graphic Research Working Group: Call for Participation

Are you interested in how research can incorporate drawing, comic art, illustrated narrative and other graphic forms? Then join our working group, which will focus on drawing and the construction of graphic or illustrated narratives from fieldnotes and research encounters. Click through for more information.

Fieldwork: In search of 5G waves in Brussels

The “Urban Vibrations” research team has now set out for fieldwork in Europe and the USA. Here, we share some insights from Brussels, where EU policy makers promote 5G innovation while citizens demonstrate against ‘smart communities’.