Tag: Multimodality
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Printing Ethnography Otherwise
Emden, 2023 Tarde began as a small experiment—an afternoon of folding and cutting paper, a game of formats. However, it soon evolved into something else: a means to rethink how ethnography could be practiced and shared. I had been reflecting on the minimal and often overlooked details that give texture to urban life, and I wanted…
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From the Artefaktenatelier to the Ethnographic Studio
Emden, 2023 By 2023, I had moved again—this time to Emden, a small port city in northern Germany. It was there, in a modest office filled with papers, plants, and printed maps, that the Artefaktenatelier began to expand beyond its original form. What started as a conceptual and doctoral experiment was now becoming an ongoing studio practice: a…
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Between Diagrams and Labyrinths
Lübeck, 2021 By 2021, I was no longer in Munich. I had moved north, to Lübeck (after a stopover in Berlin) a quieter and more introspective place. After years of fieldwork, experiments, and travel, Lübeck became the studio I had always imagined. It was there—between canals, wooden floors, and slow winter light—that the Artefaktenatelier turned from a conceptual…
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Glitches, Rats, and Other Urban Companions
Medellín, 2021 In 2021, I returned to Medellín, my hometown, for the first time since finishing my PhD. I stayed for two months, walking the city’s streets with a different gaze—one shaped by years of thinking about artifacts, fragments, and infrastructures. This time, I wasn’t looking for order but for the interruptions, the temporary repairs, the…
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When the City Became a Studio
New York, 2019 New York was not only a fieldsite but a workshop. I lived there for almost four months, closing the final stage of my doctoral research. During those weeks, I moved between Times Square and the New School — between the street’s theatrical surfaces and the building where anthropology, design, and art coexisted.…
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The Artefaktenatelier
Munich, 2017: The Artefaktenatelier When I arrived in Munich to begin my doctoral research, I found myself surrounded by a language of precision—machines, diagrams, infrastructures, grids. The city seemed to operate as both laboratory and metaphor. It made me wonder whether ethnography could also become something other than narrative: perhaps a material experiment, a workshop…