Stadtlabor’s multimodal event series about to return for its 24/25 winter edition
Learn more about this year’s theme “Activating Waves: Vibrations between Art and Anthropology” and save the dates!
News
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?
Stadtlabor Summer 2024 Event Series
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.
Stadtlabor Summer 2024 Event Series
Crowd/Methods
The Stadtlabor for multimodal anthropology happily announces the first instalment of this summer term´s event series.
Waschbärlin-Website Goes Live!
Ein anthropologischer und multimodaler Blick auf den aktuellen Diskurs über Waschbären in Berlin
Student Project "Ageing Cities"
"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.
Multimodal Project Fund
Urban Resarch by Other Means.
Explore the student projects awarded by the Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology.
Stadtlabor Winter 2023/2024 Event Series
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.
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.
Winter 23-24 Event Series
Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology
The Stadtlabor is pleased to announce its event series for the Winter Semester 2023/2024!
Stadtlabor Winter 2023/2024 Event Series
Tivoli Stories: A Multimodal Unpacking
Have a look at the second instalment of the Stadtlabor Winter 2023/2024 Event Series.
Multimodal guided bus tour
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.
Waves at an Interface: Moving Towards a WAVEMATTERS Website
Weïv Mæt-ers visits Katja Gretzinger’s studio to begin the design of its website and to grapple with the challenge of drawing waves together at an interface.
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’.
Summer 2023 Event Series
Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology
The Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology invites to three public events during the Summer Semester 2023.
Open-source cooperative game
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.
Film Screening and Discussion
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.
VW Open Up Grant 2023-2024
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?
Journal Article
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.
ERC Grant 2022-26
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.
EASST2022 in Madrid
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”.
IfEE Institutskolloquium SoSe22
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.
EASST2022 in Madrid
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.
Multimodal Project Fund
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?
Student fund
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.
Online Lecture Series
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.
Project / On going
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.
SFB: Re-Figuration of Spaces - 2022-25
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.
New Publication!
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.
Project / On going
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