After practicing a repertoire of methods in Urban Territories I, the course Urban Territories II: Designing Urban Research will expand students’ methodological toolbox and fieldwork research. The aim is to encourage the confident handling of the various methods and their interconnection. The focus will be on the interdisciplinary discussion of current approaches in qualitative urban research and the development of a coherent research design in relation to the annual theme and to the project in UDP2: Dirt Cheap: Reclaiming Values. The course Urban Territories II will take place weekly.
In an alternating rhythm of a three-hour lecture with practical elements and a two-hour seminar, practice-oriented theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches to the scientific exploration of social spaces are elaborated. The lecture introduces and discusses the different main topics on the basis of the reading done by the students and on basis of exemplary interpretations. The seminar serves to deepen the respective contents, to conduct research in the field and to interpret the conduced materials.

We will concentrate on the following methodological approaches: Experimental and critical zones, Sensory knowledge designs, Speculative knowledge productions, Tactical Urbanisms, Actor-Network-Methodologies and Un/Commoning, Collaborative knowledge productions, and a Re-accessing of Grounded-Theory and Situational Analysis.