Researching Otherwise: Pluriversal Methodologies for Landscape and Urban Studies maps a set of sensory, collaborative, and restitutive methodological tools that challenge how knowledge is produced in landscape and urban research — from non-human companions to visual ethnographic studies with refugees.
About This Book
Conventional research methods in landscape and urban studies have long privileged the analytical and the abstract. Researching Otherwise pushes back, assembling a pluriversal set of practices — drawing, photographing, filmmaking, sounding, listening, walking, mapmaking — that engage the sensory, the collaborative, and the restitutive. The result is a methodological resource for researchers who want to work across disciplines, across cultures, and across species. It asks how transdisciplinary dialogue can open new spaces of knowledge production, and how regenerative futures might be imagined and enacted through creative, embodied, and politically attentive research practice.
Key Features
- 270 pages of contributed methodological essays, case studies, and practice-based research
- Contributions by Nitin Bathla, Denise Bertschi, Nancy Couling, Luke Harris, Metaxia Markaki, Bonnie Kate Walker, and more
- Published by gta Verlag, ISBN 9783856764678
What You'll Discover
- How sensory and affective methods — listening, sounding, walking — can be deployed as legitimate research tools in urban and landscape studies
- Approaches to transdisciplinary and pluriversal knowledge production that resist dominant Western research frameworks
- Case studies spanning visual ethnography with refugee communities and investigations of non-human relations in landscape research
- How creative practices such as mapmaking, filmmaking, and drawing function as generative modes of inquiry rather than mere documentation
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 270
- Dimensions: 16 x 22 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783856764678
- Publisher: gta Verlag
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Landscape architects, urban researchers, and academics in geography, spatial studies, and design who work at the intersection of methodology, social practice, and pluriversal inquiry.