Urban Matters

Peer-Networking, Democratizing Knowledge, Transferable Skills with Julia Büchele & Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe

The study of the urban and space more generally is what brings us together in a peer exchange across fields and stages of our degrees. This doctoral course will take place in the format of a workshop group.
Our goals are threefold:

• fostering a peer community and expanding more-than-academic networks
• engaging in inter- and transdisciplinary exchanges and democratizing knowledge in academic activities
• building transferable skills for various projects and career paths

The group will gather in bi-weekly meetings to engage in sharing their own work, exchanging peer feedback and building transferable skills (the exact schedule will be set with the group at the beginning of the course).

During a regular meeting, one or more participants share and discuss their work in progress at different stages and in various formats and media (text, sound, visuals, etc). In a mutual learning process, we will give each other feedback, share insights and advice on attending conferences, applying for funding, publishing processes, collaborating on research projects, and dissemination of knowledge.

The concepts, issues and focus areas of many of us intersect with urban matters in various ways: societal changes, crises, resource scarcity, mobility and migration, activism and emancipatory practices, cultural constructs, everyday rhythms and rituals, questions of power and intersectional discrimination, as well as the political, the performative, and the poetic are among some of the research subjects we deal with.

Participants share a common theoretical or methodological research interest in matters of the urban – as well as space and spatial issues more broadly – as they intersect with their individual fields (Anthropology, Gender Studies, various Area Studies, Media Studies, Human Geography, Urban Studies, Architecture, History, Political Science, Sociology, Psychology, Linguistics, Biology, etc).

We aim to build networks among peers, foster collaboration, and to strengthen and diversify the production of knowledge. We bring together a group across the University of Basel and the University of Applied Sciences, Academy of Art and Design Basel with the effect of crosspollination of ideas and scholarship.

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