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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.
The Urban Microclimate Regime: The Constitution of Spaces and Infrastructures of Heat
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.
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
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
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