Urban Miscellanea
2020-2022, 2025
Urban Miscellanea is an experimental multimedia anthology that celebrates creativity situated within the urban.
2020/21: States of Apprehension
2021/22: Urban emergency / urban rhythms
2025: Archiving
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Diego Bottaro
2021/22
multimediascape composition
Photography
Bio
I am Diego, urban researcher with a particular interest in the multisensorial interrelation of space, technologies, humans, and ideas. Having a background in photography, I value creative practice within research.The study of urban space and place is a crucial point of investigation for the social sciences. Recent research has encouraged founding such investigations on sensorial experiences and creative practices. My project further develops the experimentation of these practices through the testing of multimediascape composition. Multimediascape composition is a methodology that I propose, which utilises a multimedia creative approach for the research and representation of multisensorial experiences of urban space and place.
Its outputs are a written and photographic analysis and a multimedia environment depicting Pepys Estate, in southeast London. Furthermore, multimediascape composition focuses on the emplaced relation between humans, non-humans, technologies, ideas, discourses, and their interactions, with particular attention to multisensorial experiences of urban space, and multimedia creative doings for the creation of emplaced knowledge.
Moreover, this methodology emphasises the relation between a multisensorial and multimedia approach to research. That is because the utilisation and combination of several media permit to evoke and attend to the multifaceted concentrations of sensorial stimuli offered by urban spaces.
Finally, multimediascape composition promotes novel ways to research and represent urban space, which lead to new knowledge on the topic and the fostering of critical thinking for the advancement of this methodology and social science scholarship concerned with urban space and place.