Urban Ethnography Lab

10/02/2021

Dear colleagues, we invite paper proposals for our workshop + co-lab „Sensing Change and Changing Seismographies in the City: Workshop and Co-Lab on Urban Lifeworlds and Aesthetic Activism“ (P52) at the GAA (German Anthropological Association) to take place online.

September 27–30, 2021, Bremen (Germany), virtual conference.

We are very looking forward to your proposals!

Please submit your abstracts (max. 1.200 characters, including spaces) and a short version (max. 300 characters, including spaces) to: [email protected], [email protected], valer…

09/12/2020

Have a look into the new issue of Radical Housing Journal "Radical housing (dis)encounters: Reframing housing research and praxis" with an all-women Editorial reflection on the centrality of care in research 👏

Our Issue 2.2 opens with an all women Editorial reflection on the centrality of care in research and struggles for home amidst "multiple and multiplying crises that existed before the pandemic and continue, relentlessly, to render certain people, bodies and homes disposable."

10/11/2020

See all three Sheffield Urbanism Lectures "The Surrounds: extinction to abolition" by AbdouMaliq Simone. Thanks for the inspirational and compelling thoughts!

Links for the taped lectures are below:
Lecture 1 - https://youtu.be/yupQ2-obEn8
Lecture 2 - https://youtu.be/KzGlVHodHIM
Lecture 3 - https://youtu.be/qAS0SMxUn8c
Photo # 3: Eyerusalem Adugna

Sheffield Urbanism Lectures Series 2020 profiles the work from Professor AbdouMaliq Simone, Senior Professorial Fellow in the Urban Institute. The series is ...

09/09/2020

Failed Architecture is looking for people to write about the smart city, autogenerative design, proptech, etc.! A few more days left to submit your pitch.

Call for articles: Failed Architecture and Aesthetics of Exclusion are looking for contributions on how computation influences the production of space...

24/07/2020

Today, Cielab (Basel) in collaboration with Urban Ethnography Lab (Berlin) have held the Urban Co-Lab "Out of the Box 2.0“, in the context of the conference Lisbon: New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe.

We are grateful for the engaging participation of Jamie Coates, Anthony Howarth, Stuart Lang, Arba Bekteshi, and Szabrina Orosz. With more people interested than the software could handle, we would like to include more and organize further collaborative digital sessions. Stay tuned on our social media for upcoming events!

23/07/2020

Marilyn Strathern's gave the keynote address, "Terms of Engagement," yesterday at and it's now available to watch here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPKDVaxcYC8&feature=youtu.be

via Ethnography Lab

Marilyn Strathern talks on Terms of Engagement

23/07/2020

Urban Life Amidst COVID-19 | But how did people cope during COVID-19? Through the survey, urban researchers would like to gain greater awareness of the social consequences as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the political measures taken.

The survey is being conducted by staff of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin. The Berlin University Alliance is funding the research. Prof. Talja Blokland (Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies) and Dr. Johanna Hoerning (Technische Universität Berlin) are leading the research project.

For more information and the survey platform, please visit 👉 https://www2.hu-berlin.de/corona-stadt/en/home/.

Thanks very much for your time and insights!

Home Welcome … to the "Urban Life Amidst COVID-19" website. We are pleased to know you are interested in our project and the online survey. You may access the survey here: Start the survey Presented on this page is the survey to "Urban Life Amidst COVID-19." We are building on the project "The Wor...

10/07/2020

What is ethnography, and how do we teach about ethnography/ethnographies so that students understand the complexity of analysis?

"This post is the first within a series focused on the compilation of a syllabus archive for instructors of anthropology and other related disciplines. Through these posts, we are curating a compilation of syllabi on thematic topics that are brought to life through short summaries and learning goals provided by the contributors of each syllabus. These posts are part of a larger motivation to provide instructors at every level with resources at their fingertips for class design and development."

Dr. Erin Gould and Dr. Anne Allison have curated the Critical Ethnographies Syllabus Archive - check out the first few syllabi here!

What is ethnography, and how do we teach about ethnography/ethnographies so that students understand the complexity of analysis? There have been ...

10/07/2020

We are very looking forward to a fascinating virtual 16th EASA Biennial Conference: "New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe", 21-24 July 2020 & our Urban Co-Lab

“Out of the Box 2.0“ digital collaboration on the study of urban lifeworlds through image-based urban ethnographic methods [UrbAn] [L19]

https://easaonline.org/conferences/easa2020/panels -laboratories

Registration remains open. So register now.

16th EASA Biennial Conference: New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe

01/05/2020

SENSING THE CITY | 'How we listen to the city is as important as what we are listening for. Amid the rise of artificially intelligent, algorithmically attuned ears, scoring the city in accordance with their own computational logics, we humans need to better understand our own acoustic agency so that we can make thoughtful choices about how to supplement our ears with machinic ones. In a world defined by climate crisis, surveillance capitalism, and the periodic collapse of global health, we need to think as much about a city’s resonance as we do its resilience and livability.' – Places Journal

via Ingrid Enriquez-Donissaint

The mechanical operations of a transit system, the social life of a public library, the overload of hospital emergency rooms: all can be intoned through algorhythmic analysis.

17/02/2020

JOB ALERT // 2 Ph.D. Studentships in social sciences, anthropology, art, and literature with a focus on migration, literary festivals, and cultural production (3 years). The ERC-project MINOR UNIVERSALITY based at the University of the Saarland / Université de la Saar is advertising two Ph.D. positions for three-years.

DEADLINE 1 MARCH. For more information 👉

31/01/2020

Junior Research Group Leader (d/f/m) Sustainable Cities: Urban Flows and Production, with Braunschweig University of Technology (TU Braunschweig). Apply Today.