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

Contact

Email: stadtlabor@hu-berlin.de

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Faculty

Ignacio Farías

Ignacio’s research focuses on current ecological and infrastructural transformations of cities and the associated challenges to the democratization of city-making.

Andrew Gilbert

Andrew’s research focuses on the politics of social transformation, most recently exploring the collaborative, ethnographic and political affordances of multisensory and multimodal experimentation.

Nona Schulte-Römer

ERC Project WAVEMATTERS

Nona is fascinated by the social life of electromagnetic waves, including 5G and light.

Brett Mommersteeg

ERC Project WAVEMATTERS

Bretts is currently focused on how elusive things and disturbances — noise and vibrations — are registered and contested within different kinds of knowledge practices.

Elisabeth Luggauer

ERC Project WAVEMATTERS

Elisabeth’s work focuses on urban spaces and multispecies relations – she has special interests in multispecies and multimodal ethnography and in southeast European cities.

Tomás Uson

PhD Project: “Remembering Future Disasters: Climate Change, Memory and Anticipation in Ancash, Peru”

Margherita Tess

Margherita (they/them) has a mixed background in Japanese studies and environmental sciences and graduated in Cultural Anthropology from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

Former Colleagues

Imad Gebrayel

Imad Gebrayel is a Lebanese designer, educator, and researcher based in Berlin. He specialized in identity representation and bilingual visual communication and produced visual and theoretical works around self-Orientalism in Arab* design, counter-mapping, and archiving. After years of experience as a creative director between Abu Dhabi and Beirut, Imad moved to the Netherlands, where he

Petra Beck

I’m an Anthropologist. For several years I worked in the film industry before I studied European Ethnology, Cultural Studies and Gender Studies at the Humboldt-University in Berlin. Since 2022 I’m coordinating the Robert K. Merton Center for Science Studies in Berlin, and teach at the Department of European Ethnology at the University of Vienna.