Feeling the city as method: embodied attunement | Lab
Join us for a Lab the Vienna Anthropology Days - February 16-19th, 2027 Breathe in time with a passing train, stand barefoot at a bus stop, or dance to the flap of a pigeon’s wings. This lab guides participants into a haptic and sensory investigation of the city of Vienna, first training them to gather felt memories as fieldnotes, then how to recall these memories as ‘data’ that can inspire more arresting ethnographic writing. Long abstract: Ethnographers are used to making quick, focused observations with pen and paper, or increasingly, a phone - but what happens if our first point of contact is intuitive, non-verbal, and sensorial? Run by the Creative Anthropology Network’s Theatre from the Field collective, this workshop will take participants out into the streets of Vienna to discover how to make ethnographic observations through the body. Breathe in time with a passing train, stand barefoot at a bus stop, or dance to the flap of a pigeon’s wings: this is not about recording ...
