Fridays, 10:00-12:00 | ETH Zürich, HIL E 67
This seminar explores innovative methodologies beyond conventional approaches in landscape and urban research. Participants engage with critical, artistic, mobile, and participatory practices—such as drawing, filmmaking, walking, and mapping—that cross disciplinary boundaries. In parallel, the course examines pioneering lines of inquiry, including the urbanisation of the sea, land abandonment, action research, critical publishing, and queer creative methods. The “more-than” in the title signals our commitment not only to explore and expand emergent methodologies but also to question and trouble them in relation to complex, contested, and multi-layered issues. By engaging with these methods and themes, contextualising them through key texts, and reflecting on their implications, participants will develop their own situated and innovative research approaches.
19.09. Introduction
26.09. From Ocean Literacy to Ocean Blindness: researching in reverse | Nancy Couling
03.10. Toward cross-epistemic studies of abandoned landscapes | Alexander Vorbrugg
10.10. Table of Contents as Method | Luca Okay Can & Raquel Jerobon
17.10. The Art of Doing Fieldwork: moving beyond conventional approaches | Asebe Regassa
31.10. Action research: On gaining access and building relationships | Ina Valkanova
07.11. Disturbing the Poetics of Ethnography via Photography | Lindsay Vogt
14.11. Researching With Rather Than About: Combining Archival Encounters with Weeding | Gianna Ledermann
21.11. Publishing as Research Practice | Lucie Kolb
28.11. Queer Creative Methods? | Haiyan Huang
05.12. Doc Crits @L200
Guest Reviewers: Lindsay Bremner, Charles Heller
Organisation
Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS)
Contact: Nazlı Tümerdem(coordinator LUS)