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Contribution short abstract:

It will introduce the idea of and the need for an Artefaktenatelier, a multidisciplinary and multimodal space that explores urban life through the experimentation with and the fabrication of ethnographic artifacts.

Contribution long abstract:

Urban spaces are multipliCITIES happening in multiple times, velocities, formats, and scales. To approach them, an urban scholar must have a partial and situated position that is also mobile and transitory. Additionally, they must have a huge, portable, and well-equipped epistemological workbench to craft all types of methodological and theoretical tools to explore, decompose, and (un)write the particular spaces where urban life exists.

My contribution explores the idea of the Artefaktenatelier, a place for ethnographic experimentation where anthropology, journalism, sociology, and science and technology studies come together to design and imagine ethnographic devices, mixing digital and multimodal techniques, mapping, data visualization, and craftsmanship. Although the Artefaktenatelier is still a potentiality, it already has its own first product: a monthly zine exploring the minimal and seemingly irrelevant entanglements composing the city, https://tarde.info.