Handbook of Qualitative and Visual Methods in Spatial Research

Listening, experiencing, drawing or interpreting spaces: narratives, experiences, visualizations and discourses can be helpful for the empirical investigation of spaces. This interdisciplinary handbook presents a broad spectrum of established methods and innovative method development to capture and understand different facets of spaces. Instructive explanations and concrete examples make the varied qualitative methods of spatial research understandable and applicable across disciplines. The theoretical and methodological aspects of qualitative spatial research form the framework of this handbook.

Anna Juliane Heinrich, born in 1987, is a researcher and lecturer at the Chair of Urban Design and Urban Development of Technische Universität Berlin. She is principal investigator of the research project »The Spatial Knowledge of Young Adults: The Constitution of Online, Offline and Hybrid Spaces« and Co-Head of the graduate school of the Collaborative Research Centre »Re-Figuration of Spaces« (CRC 1265) at Technische Universität Berlin. Her research focuses on participation and co-creation in urban development, spatial knowledge, social infrastructures as well as methodologies and methods of research in planning and design.

Séverine Marguin, born in 1985, sociologist, is head of the methods lab at the Collaborative Research Centre »Re-Figuration of Spaces« (CRC 1265) at Technische Universität Berlin. Her interdisciplinary research focus lays on cultural and knowledge production, sociology of space, experimental and design-based methods. She currently leads two research projects: »Museum Knowledge Space« at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and »Afronovelas: Spatial Stories and Production Regime in West-African Soaps« at the Collaborative Research Centre »Re-Figuration of Spaces« (CRC 1265) of Technische Universität Berlin.

Angela Million, born in 1974, is a professor for urban design and urban development at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development of Technische Universität Berlin. She is director of the Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability and member of the Collaborative Research Centre »Re-Figuration of Spaces« (CRC 1265) at TU Berlin. She studied at BTU Cottbus, UWM USA and ETSAVA Spain and taught at TU Dortmund and MSU USA.

Jörg Stollmann, born in 1968, is a professor for urban design and urbanization at the Institute for Architecture at Technische Universität Berlin. He is a member of the Collaborative Research Centre »Re-Figuration of Spaces« (CRC 1265) at TU Berlin. He graduated from Universität der Künste Berlin and Princeton University and taught among others at UdK Berlin and ETH Zurich.