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.

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Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies, HU Berlin

Re-Figuration of Spaces (SFB 1265)

xcol. An Ethnographic Inventory

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Tag archive: multimodal anthropology

Announcement

Final session on Stadtlabor’s Multimodal Winter Series 25/26

We are delighted to announce our upcoming fourth and final installment for this year’s STADTLABOR FOR MULTIMODAL ANTHROPOLOGY: WINTER SERIES 2025-2026. CRIPPING ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODS: EXPLORING ANTI-ABLEIST POTENTIALS OF MULTIMODAL ANTHROPOLOGY Patchwork Ethnography: a Methodological Guide by Chika Watanabe. 2nd February 2026. 4pm-6pm.  Intersecting responsibilities at home, life conditions, institutional pressures, and geopolitical uncertainties make uninterrupted

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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.

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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

Crowd/Methods

The Stadtlabor for multimodal anthropology happily announces the first instalment of this summer term´s event series.

Announcement

Illustrating Research

The Stadtlabor invites to the second event in the Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology’s Event Series for the Summer Semester 2023:

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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.

Person

Elisabeth Luggauer

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

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

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.