Darstellung “points of interests” im Leben mit Behinderungen

Online Karte

In Innsbruck und Umgebung gibt es viele Orte mit sichtbaren und unsichtbaren Hindernissen, die die Fortbewegung und Freizeitgestaltung erschweren. Teilnehmende der Forschung ENABLING Cities haben solche Orte sowie Wohlfühlorte identifiziert. Diese Orte sind auf folgender Karte dargestellt.

Vielfalt von Behinderung und städtischer Inklusion

Virtual Reality Experience

Eine Behinderung kann sich unterschiedlich auf den Lebensalltag auswirken. Eine inklusive Stadt bedeutet für jeden etwas anderes, da Menschen mit Behinderungen unterschiedliche Bedürfnisse und Herausforderungen haben. Drei VR-Videos zeigen die Alltagssituationen von Personen mit Behinderungen, um zu verdeutlichen, dass bei der Stadtgestaltung die Bedürfnisse aller berücksichtigt werden müssen.

Generative digital worlds of children and young people

Possible forms of care and repair in digital geographies

Drawing on a case study of how children and young people use social media for multiple purposes, Jessica’s talk shows what forms of care and repair are possible in digital geographies. This blog post shares some more details of Jessica’s talk as part of the Transient Spaces Lecture Series.

The summer of conferences (Part 1)

Deutscher Kongress für Geographie (DKG) in Frankfurt/Main, 19-23 September 2023

This blog post is part of a blog series that deals with our reflections on ‘the summer of conferences’ 2023. The first part of the blog series by Jacqueline Kowalski and Christoph Schimmel reports on contributions that have been made at the DKG 2023 at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main from our perspective. Furthermore, we will shed some light on our main impressions and important discussions that we found thought-provoking for our further research.

Gesunde (digitale) Orte?

Podcastserie: Meine Freizeit und ich im digitalen Raum

Können digitale Räume wirklich gesund sein? Wie verändern digitale Technologien unsere Beziehung zur Natur, unsere Alltagsräume und -praktiken und unser affektiv-emotionales Erleben dieser Räume? Welche Effekte hat das auf unsere Gesundheit und Wohlbefinden – physisch, sozial und mental?

Urban Challenges, Urban Futures: Digital and/ or sustainable into the urban nature?

Examples from urban parks in Southeast Asia

Can digital urban development and green space development also be ecologically and socially sustainable? What are the different (sustainable) urban planning concepts and how are they implemented? This question and more were asked by a group of 16 students in the Master’s programme Geography – Global Change, Regional Sustainability at the University of Innsbruck.

Disconnect to Reconnect? Pathways Towards a Healthier Relationship with Digital Technology 

On 16 November 2021, we were delighted to host Dr. Mariek Vanden Abeele, Associate Professor of Digital Culture at Ghent University, Belgium, and recipient of a 2020 ERC Starting Grant on Digital Wellbeing, for an online lecture as part of our Transient Spaces Online Lecture Series. Here you can listen to her talk.

cON/FFlating spaces: on the intersections and conflation of our ONline and OFFline worlds

In her latest blog post, Tabea Bork-Hüffer claims that we need more research and method(ologie)s that look into the intersections and interdependence of ONline and OFFline spaces. Today, we cannot understand these spheres as detached from each other but as conflating –  cON/FFlating – spaces.

Stuck in the Pandemic: Research Through the COVID-Migration News Database

The pandemic has highlighted the vulnerability of place-based research as many research methods cannot be carried out due to travel restrictions. This blog post shows one way how to deal with this.

Experimenting with research methods from afar: The “digital (video) mobility map” in times of COVID-19

All over the world, people had to adapt to the situation and find new ways to manage their social life. But also, researchers across disciplines faced far-reaching obstacles of doing research and encountered difficulties to find ways of interacting with their research participants. This Blog explores new ways of doing research in times of travel restrictions.

Border Crossers and the Militarization of China’s Border in Times of COVID-19

Political reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic brought global mobility to a halt. The resulting social consequences only become clear over time. The case of China shows how profoundly border regimes have changed.

Fast Urbanism: Between Speed, Time and Urban Futures

In the monsoons of 2010, my research partner and I were driving along the Mumbai-Pune expressway documenting its transformation. What really struck us was that while the journey used to take a good 4-5 hours in the rain, it was now reduced to a mere 2 hours.

Nowhere Citizens? Uncertainty and Anxiety of Return Migrants in India

I saw so many people migrate to the Gulf countries and how they created a new world for themselves and their dependents. For most of them migration was their alleged route to paradise. But then COVID19 happened.

Sinop: The city that popped-up in the middle of nowhere

In Europe we know above all cities that have developed over centuries. But there are also cities that have been built in a very short period of time. In this blog post Veit Badde gives us an example from Brazil.