Florian Purkarthofer

University of Vienna, Austria

Florian Purkarthofer is a researcher at the Department of East Asian Studies, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna, Austria and interested in urban studies, hetero-/utopias as critique, and research on sensation and perception in contemporary societies. He is currently working on a project on urban space in Tokyo as a nexus of conflicting individual perceptions and social constructions, by employing experimental methods from multisensory anthropology. Further projects aim at delving into human and non-human co-creation of urban spaces and the social life of digital sensations.

Presentation(s):

• Close-Ups: The Highs and Lows of Social Life in the City

  Thursday, August 1, 2024
  11:15 – 13:00 (GMT+7)

• Life on the line: Inquiries into the daily struggles of urban communities along commuter train tracks in Tokyo through the social space of ‘eki-mae’

  Thursday, August 1, 2024
  11:15 – 13:00 (GMT+7)