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Dr. Nora Küttel

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Consultation hours: by appointment

Dr Nora Küttel is a research associate at the Institute of Geography at the University of Bremen. Her research focuses on critical urban research, cultural and social geography, deindustrialisation studies as well as ethnographic, visual and creative research methods and feminist methodology.

Focus Areas:

Critical urban research, cultural geography, qualitative methods

Biography

Since 12/2024 Research assistant, Institute of Geography, University of Bremen

06/2021-11/2024 Research Assistant, Institute of Geosciences and Geography, MLU Halle

2016-2021 Doctorate, University of Münster

2016-2021 Research Assistant, Institute of Geography, University of Münster

Teaching

Dr Nora Küttel’s teaching focuses on critical urban geography with a focus on transformation processes in urban spaces as well as various topics in cultural geography. She also integrates creative and artistic approaches in order to teach alternative methodological perspectives on space and society.

Publications

Küttel, N. (2024): Oral history in geographischer Forschung: Emotionen und Verlust in Erfahrungsgeschichten ehemaliger Werftarbeiter*innen erforschen. In: Special Edition Social Geography: Geographien des Verlusts, 79(4), 325–339. https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-325-2024.

Küttel, N. (2024): Material agency in art installations: Exploring the interplay of art, space, and materials in Detroit. Geographica Helvetica, 79(2), 149–160. https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-149-2024.

Peterson, M.; Küttel, N. (2024): GeoTandem Bremen—Halle: Kreative und künstlerische Zugänge zu Raum—Neue Impulse zur Methodenlehre in der Geographie. In: Mossig, I.; Müller, A.-L.: GeoTandems. Teamteaching in der geographischen Hochschullehre. LIT Verlag. Münster. S. 75–89.

Küttel, N. (2024): Book Review: Beyond Molotovs – A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies. Geographica Helvetica. 79(4), 341-342. https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-341-2024.

Küttel, N. (2024): Photography and Autoethnography: Visual and textual narratives on fieldwork. In: VisQual Methodbox, https://visqual.leibniz-ifl-projekte.de/methodbox/2023/11/25/photography-and-autoethnography.

Küttel, N.; Peterson, M. (2024): Zines: Getting crafty in and beyond academia. In: VisQual Methodbox, https://visqual.leibniz-ifl-projekte.de/methodbox/2023/11/30/zines.

Küttel, N.; Peterson, M. (2023): Schneiden, Kleben, Reflektieren: Zines und das Erstellen reflexiver (Forschungs-)Räume. In: Singer, K.; Schmidt, K.; Neuburger, M.: artographies. methodisch-künstlerische Zugänge zu Raum. transcript. Bielefeld. S. 91-103.

Küttel, N. (2022): When art and space meet – An ethnographic approach to artistic practices and urban space in Detroit. Franz Steiner Verlag. Stuttgart.

Küttel, N. (2022): The City as a Palimpsest [map & zine]. Feministische GeoRundmail, 89.

Küttel, N. (2021): Autoethnography and Photo-Essay. In: Kogler, R.; Wintzer, J.: Raum und Bild – Strategien visueller raumbezogener Forschung. Springer. Berlin, Heidelberg. S. 57-67. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-61965-0_5.

Peterson, M.; Küttel, N. (2020): The ‚accidental‘ and the ‚failed‘: turning silent/ced moments in the field into data. Feministische GeoRundmail, 83.

Küttel, N. (2018): Art for whose Sake? Zwischen Kommodifizierung, Gentrification und sozialem Engagement. dérive – Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung, 70, S. 27-31.

Küttel, N. (2019): Rezension: Monika Streule (2018). Ethnografie urbaner Territorien. Metropolitane Urbanisierungsprozesse von Mexiko-Stadt. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 20(2), http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3266.

Talks

  • “Material agency in art installations? Exploring the interplay of art, space, and materials in Detroit”. Lecture, Annual Meeting AAG, Detroit, 2025.
  • “Threatened identities in deindustrialisation processes. Labour, gender, and memory in the context of transformation processes in East and West German shipyards”. Lecture, 14th North German Doctoral Colloquium on Economic Geography, Greifswald, 2025.
  • “Beyond Boundaries: Rethinking Maps Through Critical Cartography”, lecture, EuMIGS Winter Workshop, Osnabrück, 2025.
  • “Multisensory Research Methods”, lecture, Urban Theory Symposium “Sensing DiverCities”, Berlin, 2024.
  • “‘He was the kind of person who preferred to work only with men’ – Female workers in the East German ship building industry”, lecture, DéPOT Conference ‘Gender, Family, and Deindustrialisation’, Glasgow, 2024.
  • “Teaching Creative and Artistic Methods in Human Geography: A Reflection on Blurred Boundaries, Tangled Thoughts, and Mutual Support”, lecture together with Melike Peterson, Tagung Neue Kulturgeographie, Münster, 2024.
  • “Loss in Transition: Stories of Experience and Emotions of Former Shipyard Workers”. Lecture, Human Geography Colloquium, Institute of Geography, University of Jena, 2024.

Website

https://nora-kuettel.de