An N of 1: Multimodal Experiments in Ethnographic Portraiture
The Stadtlabor for multimodal anthropology happily announces the second instalment of this summer term´s event series.
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Crowd/Methods
The Stadtlabor for multimodal anthropology happily announces the first instalment of this summer term´s event series.
"Ageing Cities" Zine
Learn more about the publication featuring the various student projects conducted within the framework of WiSe 21/22´s “Ageing Cities” course.
Urban Resarch by Other Means.
Explore the student projects awarded by the Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology.
Circulation and Activation: Repurposing Research Artifacts in Motion
Have a look at the fourth and last instalment of the Stadtlabor Winter 2023/2024 Event Series.
Intermedial Attunements: Crafting Social Theory with a Beach
Have a look at the third instalment of the Stadtlabor Winter 2023/2024 Event Series.
Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology
The Stadtlabor is pleased to announce its event series for the Winter Semester 2023/2024!
Tivoli Stories: A Multimodal Unpacking
Have a look at the second instalment of the Stadtlabor Winter 2023/2024 Event Series.
Sensing and making sense of cities as wave fields
A little bit more than a year ago, on the 8th of July 2022, more than 50 STS-scholars attending the European Association of Science and Technology Studies (EASST) conference in Madrid participated in a three-hour “thermodynamic” bus ride organised by the WAVEMATTERS-team. On this bus ride, Jos Temprano and Victor Rovira, a local team of a filmmaker and a soundrecordist, joined us and together we produced this video of the ride through heat.
Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology
The Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology invites to three public events during the Summer Semester 2023.
Waste What?
WASTE WHAT? is an open-source cooperative game, which explores how we can think about materials differently, trying out many ways to keep stuff in use. In the game you play as a material recovery initiative. Your goal is to creatively find new uses for discarded things, closing loops and reducing the amount of waste that is burned.
Homage: In Conversation with Latour
A Film Screening and Discussion with invited guests on the legacy of Latour. This is a joint event by the Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology and the Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations laboratory at the Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, HU-Berlin.
Multimodal Appreciation: Prototypes for the Evaluation and Institutionalisation of More-than-Textual Ethnography
In this project we take an experimental approach to a stubborn problem: How to evaluate and institutionalize more-than-textual research that is often impossible to classify and at odds with traditional modes of disciplinary knowledge production?
Multimodale Werte: Zur Institutionalisierung mehr-als-textueller Ethnographie
In diesem Text wollen wir zum einen das Stadtlabor für Multimodale Anthropologie am Institut für Europäische Ethnologie der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin vorstellen und über unsere Projekte der letzten Jahre reflektieren.
Multimodal Values: The Challenge of Institutionalizing and Evaluating More- than-textual Ethnography
In this collective text, we introduce the vision and work of the Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology at the Humboldt-University of Berlin and propose to explore the values of multimodal ethnographic projects, broadly construed.
Urban Vibrations: How Physical Waves come to matter in Contemporary Urbanism
In this project, we explore a mostly overlooked type of environmental issue, airborne waves, and explore how solar heat, environmental noise and electromagnetic fields ‘come to matter’ in contemporary urbanism.
Cities as wave fields: A multimodal guided bus tour through “hot spots” in Madrid
The WAVEMATTERS project convened the special format Sensing and making sense of cities as wave fields: A multimodal guided bus tour through “hot spots” in Madrid at the EASST2022 conference “The Politics of Technoscientific Futures”.
Ageing Cities
On July 19th 2022, 14:30-16:00, the main results of the Studienprojekt’s ‘Ageing Cities’, coordinated by Tomás Criado, were presented in the IfEE’s Institutskolloquium (SoSe22). The presentation was delivered by the group of students who partook in the project: Maximilian Apel, Erman Dinc, Christine Maicher, Adam Petras, Doreen Sauer, and Anna Maria Schlotmann.
Conference Panel: Doing Airborne Exposure
In our team’s first jointly organised conference panel in Madrid in early July we explored, with colleagues from all over Europe, Canada and Chile, how devices, knowledges and practices for feeling, sensing, making sense of and regulating potential harm borne from the air.
Sonnenallee Podcast
The ‘Sonnenallee Podcast’ project discusses urban negotiations of space and time in open-ended conversation formats with guest speakers: what affects condition the notion of public space in Sonnenallee?
Multimodal Projects Fund
A semester-based call inviting HU students at all levels – BA, MA and PhD – to apply for funding for multimodal projects addressing urban spaces, transformations and/or other matters.
xcol. An Ethnographic Inventory
A digital inventory for the documentation of inventive forms of ethnographic inquiry, which seeks to intervene in current forms of anthropological practice and learning.
The values of multimodal projects
In this Winter Semester’s 21-22 Stadtlabor Online Seminar Series, we aim to invite ground-breaking anthropological projects where multimodality features not just as an add-on of particular inquiries, but as a central mode of research and intervention.
The Urban Microclimate Regime: The Constitution of Spaces and Infrastructures of Heat
Image: Stuttgart tramway tracks. Author: City of Stuttgart, Office for Environmental Protection
The project investigates the reconfiguration of urban spaces associated with microclimatic adaptation strategies.
Urban Development via Public-Civic Partnerships. Forms of Cooperation, Controversies and Modelling Attempts
In these cooperations, the involvement of civil society actors in decision-making processes and design processes goes beyond legally prescribed levels of participation.
The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory (2019)
This companion explores ANT as an intellectual practice, tracking its movements and engagements with a wide range of other academic and activist projects.
Civilising technologies for an ageing society? The performativity of participatory methods in Socio-gerontechnology
Social change in the twenty-first century is shaped by both demographic changes associated with ageing societies and significant technological change and development. Outlining the basic principles of a new academic field, Socio-gerontechnology, this book explores common conceptual, theoretical and methodological ideas that become visible in the critical scholarship on ageing and technology at the intersection
Trash Games: Playing with the Circular Economy Transition at the Haus der Materialisierung
Funded by the Berlin University Alliance (2021-2022) call for Experimental Science Communication Laboratories
Joint project of the Chair of Circular Economy and Recycling Technologies (CERT, TU Berlin) and the Stadtlabor to develop and explore games and game design as formats of public engagement with the Circular Economy (CE).
Planning Miseducation: Re-Learning Urban Design Inside, Outside and Against the University
Image Credit: Arquitectura Expandida / Ana López Ortego, Candela Morado, Camilo Pinto (AKA Casi Nadie)
“I discovered an interesting thing: it turns out that an intervention, which seems as simple as writing, taking notes, or preparing a report, can change the world.“ – Alvaryan Maulana