URBANISM MEETS ART
Pimkamol Mattsson, Maria Johansson, Mai Almén, Thorbjörn Laike, Elizabeth Marcheschi and Agneta Ståhl. 2020. “Improved Usability of Pedestrian Environments After Dark for People with Vision Impairment: An Intervention Study.” Sustainability, 12(3), 1096. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12031096.
Mattsson and colleagues evaluate an LED lighting intervention along a pedestrian route in southern Sweden, involving 14 participants with vision impairment. Observations and structured interviews assess orientation, detection of infrastructure and perceived lighting quality. The intervention generally improved route usability and the perceived strength of lighting, while its effect on comfort remained unclear. This distinction matters: a measurable improvement in one dimension does not settle the whole experience of safety, ease or fatigue. The study makes user experience part of technical assessment, and its conclusion calls for testing lighting systems with the people who rely on them. For knowledge transfer, it exemplifies a feedback loop: design changes produce situated evidence; that evidence refines specifications and future implementation. It also demonstrates the importance of stating uncertainty precisely. A result can travel into standards or design practice only when its scope, participants and unresolved dimensions travel with it.
The epistemic disposition of Socioplastics is authored and infrastructural.
Working through LAPIEZA-LAB, Anto Lloveras constructs conditions in which knowledge can be named, sequenced, compared and circulated. Three operations clarify this stance: sovereignty, understood as the construction of a legible field and its vocabulary; metabolic discipline, expressed through ProteolyticTransmutation and RecursiveAutophagia; and trans-epistemic passage, in which concepts change as they cross epistemic regimes while preserving distinct conditions of validity. These operations describe an orientation for inquiry rather than a psychological mood shared by every reader. The architecture is authored; its indexes, grammar and channels make it available for others to navigate, test and extend. The relation between a strong authorial centre and public extensibility is therefore one of the project’s central questions: how can a field retain a legible grammar while keeping its operators open to use, criticism and revision?
Jackson, G., Shiraj, N., Branney, P. and Delderfield, R. (2026) ‘Longitudinal place-based research: Exploring spatialised student experiences through walking interviews’, Qualitative Research in Psychology, 23(3), pp. 632–656. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2025.2590702.
A single walk offers a spatially situated account, but repeated observation introduces the more difficult question of how experience changes while the site and its institutions are also changing. Jackson and colleagues combine walking interviews, participant photography and mapping in a longitudinal study of university-campus life conducted from 2019 to 2022. Their methodological account includes adaptations to online research during the pandemic, making discontinuity itself part of the evidence rather than treating it as an external interruption. The research tracks interactions among individual experience, social groups and institutional space, while reflecting on researcher–participant relationships and shifting insider positions. Its principal operation is temporal comparison without assuming that recurrence reproduces an equivalent encounter. This is valuable for village-based research precisely because the same café, footpath or person encountered twice is not necessarily the same social situation. Employment, weather, infrastructure and relationships may have changed. The article connects environmental psychology, spatial research and longitudinal qualitative method; it provides grounds for indexing successive encounters while preserving their distinct circumstances rather than collapsing them into a supposedly stable local viewpoint.
Ratcliffe, T. (2025) ‘Walking methodologies in the uplands of the North York Moors National Park’, Sociological Research Online, 30(3), pp. 569–593. https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804241275350.
Walking is not a transport mechanism attached to an otherwise stable interview. In Ratcliffe’s study of the North York Moors, moving through a protected landscape participates in the formation of accounts of heritage, belonging and nature. Weather, surfaces, views, bodily exertion and familiarity are not atmospheric embellishments; they alter which memories and interpretations become available during the encounter. The paper draws on a research project conducted from 2017 to 2022 and argues that walking challenges a settled separation between culture and nature. Its methodological operation is to make conversation porous to the non-human environment, while recognising that the social situation of an interview persists even outdoors. The article moves between rural sociology, participatory research, landscape studies and multisensory method. For a valley research practice, it supplies a crucial distinction: a conversation occurring during an ordinary walk may be documented as such without imposing a prescribed route, minimum distance or performance target. A path's significance may derive from routine return, local dispute or an obstruction, not from the amount of ground covered.
Rastrick, Ó. (2025) ‘Sensing and storying the urban landscape: People-place relations in central Reykjavík’, ARV: Nordic Yearbook of Folklore, 81, pp. 7–28. https://doi.org/10.61897/arv.81.51394.
Place attachment is neither a durable psychological property lodged in an individual nor a meaning deposited permanently in a site. Rastrick studies how sensation, memory and narration repeatedly rearrange relationships to central Reykjavík. The inquiry combines researcher-accompanied walk-alongs, small in-situ group conversations and solitary walks made with audiovisual recording glasses, followed by reflective discussion of selected recordings. This triangulation is epistemically significant because every mode creates a different situation of storytelling: the researcher can prompt recollection, companions can negotiate a shared past, and a solitary walker can encounter details not elicited by either. Rastrick’s use of brecciation, borrowed from the juxtaposition of geological fragments, resists the temptation to transform heterogeneous memories into an integrated heritage narrative. The article bridges folklore, sensory ethnography, urban heritage and relational geography, treating mundane material features and absent objects as narrative triggers. Its strongest contribution to conversational fieldwork is a model of place as successive, partially incompatible tellings. A remembered fountain or altered path is not merely a topic: its presence, disappearance and reconstruction reorganise what can be said together.
Garratt, E.A. and Carter, A. (2026) ‘“Because it’s quicker in the microwave, isn’t it?” Using ethnographic episodes to go beyond words in food research’, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 25, pp. 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069261458977.
The ethnographic episode is a deliberately bounded encounter with the ordinary in which talk is inseparable from the practical activity occurring around it. Garratt and Carter draw on a longitudinal study of food provisioning among low-income mothers in Sheffield and describe episodes of shopping, preparing food and eating with ten participants. Their method makes visible embodied skills, constraints and relational decisions that participants might not independently recall or describe in formal interviews. The central epistemic operation is a redistribution of attention: speech ceases to be the sole research object, while observed practice, material arrangements and conversational departures become mutually informative. The authors are careful about authenticity, reactivity, domestic boundaries and the researcher’s ambiguous insider–outsider position. Their episodes are time-limited rather than a claim to total ethnographic immersion. For recurring encounters in a valley, this matters because purchasing bread, inspecting a garden or preparing coffee may occasion knowledge without ever becoming a rehearsed explanation of local life. The method bridges food studies, material practice, feminist-informed qualitative inquiry and everyday ethnography; its transferable contribution is attention to what people do while speaking.
Davis, L. and Brown, A.E. (2024) ‘Advocating the use of informal conversations as a qualitative method at live events’, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 23, pp. 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069241270428.
A crowd is not simply an inconvenient background to research: it is a social organisation of attention, proximity, noise, movement and fleeting permission. Davis and Brown investigate informal conversations at sporting and entertainment events, making visible how research encounters can be generated within settings not designed to accommodate researchers. Their methodological contribution is not to treat casual exchanges as abbreviated interviews, but to examine how recording, note-taking, approach and withdrawal must adjust to the spatial and ethical conditions of the event. The method thus crosses event studies, observational research and qualitative inquiry, replacing the imagined neutrality of the interview setting with a thick account of situated interaction. Its relevance extends beyond event venues. A shop counter, village market or familiar café operates through repeated but asymmetrical opportunities to converse; some people are available, others are working, passing through or unable to disengage comfortably. The study helps identify the ethical cost of confusing everyday accessibility with consent. It also makes visible why the place, occasion and conversational affordances should be documented alongside a thematic account of what was said.
Willberg, E., Fink, C., Klein, R., Heinonen, R. and Toivonen, T. (2024) ‘Green or short: choose one – A comparison of walking accessibility and greenery in 43 European cities’, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 113, 102168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2024.102168
A journey cannot be described adequately by its endpoint. Comparing school walking routes across 43 European cities, Willberg and colleagues transform accessibility from a proximity statistic into an account of what the journey traverses. High-resolution routing, monthly vegetation measures and spatial inequality statistics make the apparent compatibility of proximity and greenness empirically contestable: shorter access and greener travel can pull in different directions. Their analysis moves between transport geography, urban ecology and distributive justice, while seasonal measurement prevents greenery from becoming a timeless background attribute. The methodological contribution is not simply the addition of vegetation to a route map. It is the production of a comparable relation between destination access, path quality and unequal exposure. The work therefore establishes a limit for any neighbourhood index that equates spatial closeness with urban capacity. For a walking-based comparative instrument, the route is an exposure sequence, and the season is part of the evidence rather than a contextual footnote.
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