In Cooperation with the Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (PECE), Dr. Tim Schütz (University of California, Irvine) will be our first RUSTlab Speaker this winter term. PECE has been a digital research infrastructure developed by ethnographers for over ten years. The open platform enables students and researchers to collaboratively archive, analyze, and publish research data multimodally with research participants. But what does this look like in research practice?
As part of the PECE Workshop Tour, Dr. Tim Schütz, who is a member of the international PECE Design Group, provides insights into working with and within PECE instances. Using ongoing projects such as Environmental Governance: Global Record and the Critical Cultural Theory Archive (with material from George Marcus and Michael Fischer, among others), he will show how ethnographic research can be organized, networked, and published in PECE.
Afterwards, workshop participants will work together to create initial content on the STS Infrastructures instance, focusing on the topic of data ideologies. In particular, the functionalities of PECE essays (including photo essays and timelines) will be made comprehensible in a practical way.
Anyone interested—with or without prior knowledge—is welcome to attend.
To prepare the infrastructure, please register via the online form by the day before the respective workshop.
We strongly encourage you not to only participate in our lecture, but also have a look at the entire tour.
Dates:
Wed, 2025-11-05, 2:00–5:00 p.m., Marburg (in cooperation with Ina Dietzsch)
Thu, 2025-11-06, 12:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m., Frankfurt am Main (in cooperation with Catherine Whittaker, Ingmar Lippert, and Martina Klausner)
Tue, 2025-11-11, 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Berlin (in cooperation with Ignacio Farías, Milena Bister, and Elisabeth Luggauer)
Wed, 2025-11-12, 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m., Bremen (in cooperation with Lina Franken, Martina Grimmig, and Nurhak Polat)
Thu, 2025-11-13, 2:00–6:00 p.m., Bochum (in cooperation with RUSTlab, SFB1567, and Estrid Sørensen)