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A research BLOG on Digitisation, Mobilities and Urbanisation from an interdisciplinary perspective
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Das behindert Menschen
Stickeraktion
Es gibt viele verschiedene Hindernisse und für jeden Menschen kann etwas anderes ein Hindernis sein. Mit diesem Sticker können Menschen mit Behinderungen auf unterschiedliche Hindernisse aufmerksam machen. Zusätzlich werden anhand der Stickeraktion ein paar Tipps gezeigt. Dinge, die jeder im Alltag beachten kann, um das Leben von Allen einfacher zu machen.
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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.
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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.
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Studieren mit Behinderungen –
Uni for all
Podcastserie: Hörsaal ohne Barrieren
Welche Barrieren (sozial und baulich) erleben Menschen mit Behinderungen an der Universität Innsbruck und welche Maßnahmen können ergriffen werden, um die Barrierefreiheit bzw. Inklusion zu verbessern und Studierenden mit Behinderungen einen gleichberechtigten Zugang zu Bildung zu ermöglichen?
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Heat, Ecosystems and Equality within the City Landscape
Experiences and Learnings from a Fieldtrip to Vienna and Bratislava
This blog post is about heat and its effects in urban spaces. Heat poses a high risk for vulnerable groups and counts to the deadliest natural hazards urban populations are facing. But it is not only a challenge for the people to deal with heat, also for urban planners to reintegrate nature and ecosystems within the city landscape.
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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.
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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.
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Challenges and obstacles for women* in the course of migration
Even though women* make up almost half of all migrants worldwide, they receive comparatively little attention. Germaine Pötgen recognizes the urgency of the neglection and addresses the challenges female* migrants have to face during and after the migration process.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Mehr Nachhaltigkeit trotz oder wegen der Digitalisierung? Erkenntnisse des WBGU-Gutachtens "Unsere gemeinsame digitale Zukunft"
Sustainability through or despite of digitalisation?
This audio blog (in German) features a research talk of Prof. Dr. Martina Fromhold-Eisebith who is a member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU), which recently released its flagship report on digitisation and sustainability.
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Digital sidewalks: using urban theory to understand technology use among migrants in Bogota
This blog post deals with the question of how access to digital technologies for urban migrants changes over time. With surprising results.
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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.
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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.
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Tiroler Schüler*innen von (Cyber-)Mobbing massiv betroffen. Was können Lehrer*innen und Eltern tun?
In diesem Blog beleuchtet Belinda Mahlknecht wie im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung und Social Media (Cyber-)Mobbing ein immer größeres Problem wird und was man dagegen tun kann.
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Digital technology in the daily lives of urban refugees
This contribution illustrates how digitalisation presents new opportunities for urban refugees in Kuala Lumpur, however, with an interesting twist.
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Young adults weathering the COVID-19 pandemic: They are not a “lost generation”!
In this blog our authors discuss the notions of “lost generation” and “generation corona” and argue why such labels curtail the complex realities of the young generations.
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Migrants turn cities at the crossroads into “Transient Urban Spaces”
Transient urban spaces are translocal in the sense that they transcend the physical and administrative boundaries of one specific city, but rather connect different, sometimes distant, physical places through interactions, flows, and imaginaries. In this post Benjamin Etzold writes about the relations between migration, translocality, and urban transformations.
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Why does a geographical perspective on Open Access matter?
In this blog post Christoph Schimmel talks about social and geographical inequalities in the current Open Access system. Learn more …
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