Video-Summary: The values of multimodal projects
Now available: Video-summary of the two online events part of “The values of multimodal projects” workshop.
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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 concerns.
Zauderbude eröffnet!
Image: Ⓒ Rebecca Wall / Felix Marlow
Eröffnung der mobilen Forschungswerkstatt zur kooperativen Stadtentwicklung beim KO-Markt des Haus der Statistik am 14. Mai 2022
Inspirador for Possible Cities | Labetek Apung
Image: Foto (Detail): © Labtek Apung
Der Inspirador for Possible Cities ist ein Projekt mit dem Ziel, nachhaltige Städte neu zu denken, indem es inspirierende Beispiele aus mehr als 32 Orten auf der gesamten Welt identifizierte und präsentierte.
Call for Abstracts | RN 37 V Midterm Conference
We are happy to announce that we organize three Panels at the ESA Midterm conference hosted by the Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Research.
Experimental Collaborations: Ethnography through fieldwork devices (edited book)
In the accounts compiled in this book, ethnography occurs through processes of material and social interventions that turn the field into a site for epistemic collaboration.
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.
ERC Consolidator Grant 2022-2026
Urban Vibrations: How Physical Waves come to matter in Contemporary Urbanism
Image: ‘Immaterials: light painting WiFi’ is created by Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen and Einar Sneve Martinussen
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.
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.
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.
The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory
This companion explores ANT as an intellectual practice, tracking its movements and engagements with a wide range of other academic and activist projects.
Anthropology beyond text? Experiments, devices and platforms of multimodal ethnographic practice
Workshop, November 25-27, 2021
More than 30 anthropologists from DACH institutions met over two days to discuss the anthropological promises as well as challenges of different multimodal formats.
Ageing Cities: The crisis of Welfare infrastructures
In this Studienprojekt, we would like to learn to practice ethnography paying attention to the specific urban dimensions of ageing and ageing in cities.
Towards a multimodal urban anthropology (DGSKA 2021, workshop)
More-than-human approaches in urban anthropology have convincingly contributed to rethinking the plurality of modes of knowledge, the assemblages and the kinds of actors that constitute our cities. But what do these conceptual interventions do to our ethnographic modes of inquiry?
Online Lecture “Urban Vibrations: How physical waves come to matter in contemporary urbanism”
The talk focused on the environmental issue of airbone waves, and explore how solar heat and environmental noise ‘come to matter’ in contemporary urbanism.
House of Gossip
Image by Vasylysa Shchogoleva
House of Gossip is an open-source downloadable game that stages and creates the grounds for reflection on conflicts regarding housing and the different viewpoints in a volatile real estate market.
4- 6 players /// Age ~10 – ∞ /// ca. 60 min.
Playing with method: Game design as ethnographic research
What if in the face of very serious topics we developed conceptual, speculative and material tools, such as games, to find ways of intervening as ethnographers, social scientists or as activists in current design dynamics?
Project / On going
Trash Games: Playing with the Circular Economy at Haus der Materialisierung
Image: Eroeffnung of Haus der Materialisierung, © Raquel Gomez
The project “Trash Games: Playing with the Circular Economy Transition at the HdM” brings together the Chair of Circular Economy and Recycling Technologies (Technische Universität Berlin) and the Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) to develop and explore games and game design as formats of
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
Spiele als Stadtforschung / Games as urban research
Our Stadtlabor for multimodal anthropology‘s explorations around urban games feature at the exhibition „Open Form neu Denken“ organized by Z/KU at the Werkstatt of Haus der Statistik.
the world/s at the ends of the city: explorations in urban and environmental anthropology
What if the city was not a world in itself, but an interface to multiple, overlapping, often invisible and conflicting worldings?
Anthropos und das Ende der Welt
Wie wird die Figur des ‚Anthropos‘ in Zeiten des Anthropozäns problematisiert, hybridisiert und dezentriert, und welche Konsequenzen hat dies für die Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie?
Zu einer Anthropologie des Urbanismus
In diesem Seminar widmen wir uns stadtanthropologischen Studien, die von STS- und ANT-Ansätzen inspiriert wurden und bringen sie konzeptionell zusammen.
Re-learning Design: Pedagogical Experiments with STS in Design Studio Courses
On the one hand, contemporary strands of social and cultural theory – especially in the field of science and technology studies (STS), but also in anthropology – have made design much more than a mere research object. On the other hand, design disciplines have incorporated not only social research methods and ethnography, but also the
TOGT’s Hackathon
Hackathon for the production of three ethnographic games, as part of the MA in ethnography (HU Berlin)’s Studienprojekt “The only game in town? Anthropology and the housing and real estate markets in Berlin”
Urban Cosmopolitics: Agencements, Assemblies, Atmospheres
A cosmopolitical approach to the city focuses on the multiple assemblages of human and nonhuman actors that constitute urban common worlds, and on the conflicts and compromises that arise among different ways of assembling the city.
Technical Democracy as a Challenge for Urban Studies (Co-Ed. Anders Blok)
We engage in particular its provocative diagnosis of the current situation: power no longer resides in the modern institutions of representative democracy and the market economy; instead, power has become a matter of logistics, infrastructures and expertise. This diagnosis, we suggest, brings into view the challenge of technical democracy, that is, the democratization of techno-scientific
Studio Studies. Operations, Topologies & Displacements
Studio Studies is an agenda setting volume that presents a set of empirical case studies that explore and examine the studio as a key setting for aesthetic and material production.
Cosmopolíticas
Special Issue edited with by Ignacio Farías, Israel Rodríguez und David Rojas Journal of political theory Pléyade, Number 14, December 2014
Urban assemblages. How actor-network theory changes urban studies
This book takes it as a given that the city is made of multiple partially localized assemblages built of heterogeneous networks, spaces, and practices.