How does sound shape the production of space? What power does noise hold in politically contested environments? On Friday, 24 April 2026, Alfredo Thiermann (Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne) will join us for a NICA Masterclass on “Sound … Read more...
On Friday, 22 May 2026, Sandra Jasper (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) will join us for a NICA Masterclass on “Wastelands and Urban Ecologies”.
Urban wastelands are spaces of scientific discovery and collective memory. Ruins, deindustrialized zones, former railway yards … Read more...
On Friday, April 25, Paul O’Connor (University of Exeter) will join us for a NICA Masterclass on “Rolling Ethnography: Methodology and Urban Research”.
During this masterclass we will read and discuss recent research focused on interdisciplinary urban methods in … Read more...
On Friday, March 14, Sam Hind (Manchester University) will join us for a NICA Masterclass on “Eyes on the Prize: Studying Competitions in AI”.
In this masterclass, we will examine the growing phenomenon of machine vision ‘challenges’, used … Read more...
On Friday, May 16, Christoph Borbach and Max Kanderske (Siegen University) will join us for a NICA Masterclass on “Counter-Practices”.
In this masterclass, we will examine historic and contemporary media practices designed to confuse, elude and subvert processes … Read more...
How might we expand our approach to urban research from a sensory perspective? What about multimodal methods and questions of representation concerning your research? The Department of Human Geography, Planning & International Development is organizing a masterclass lunch with Prof. … Read more...