Sigrid Merx and Jente Hoogeveen This is the last of a series of blogs about creative urban methods. In this blog we introduce a creative walking method that we designed to engage with urban theory and issues. Walking the city is a way to include the embodied positionality of the participant and the specificity of…

Martijn Oosterbaan When I started my fieldwork on the boom of Pentecostal churches in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, I was convinced I would need to catch up on my knowledge of the Bible and would likely be spending much time in Bible-studies groups with recently converted church-members. However, I quickly found out that understanding why…

Irina van Aalst Long time photographs in Urban Geography has been used as illustration of a specific situation or objective representations of research. In recent years, interest for using photographs as a method has still increased. Visual culture has become more central in people’ s everyday lives, everyone has a camera in their pocket, and…

Corelia Baibarac-Duignan In 2019 we launched the research initiative CRUM. Short for Creative Urban Methods, CRUM aims to develop a transdisciplinary toolkit of interdisciplinary methods for mapping and analyzing (issues around) infrastructures within public space to contribute to the development of (more) sustainable urban infrastructures. The toolkit is intended to be implemented in academic research…

Iris van der Tuin In 2019 we launched the research initiative CRUM. Short for Creative Urban Methods, CRUM aims to develop a transdisciplinary toolkit of interdisciplinary methods for mapping and analyzing (issues around) infrastructures within public space to contribute to the development of (more) sustainable urban infrastructures. The toolkit is intended to be implemented in…

Nanna Verhoeff, Sigrid Merx In 2019 we launched the research initiative CRUM. Short for Creative Urban Methods, CRUM aims to develop a transdisciplinary toolkit of interdisciplinary methods for mapping and analyzing (issues around) infrastructures within public space to contribute to the development of (more) sustainable urban infrastructures. The toolkit is intended to be implemented in…