Principal Investigator: Dr. Aaron Bradshaw
This project explores the roles that various microbial ecologies play in the co-constitution of urban rivers and their extended infrastructure in London and Berlin.
This involves investigating 1) The metabolic and ecological dynamics of the socio-microbial nexus in the function of the urban hydrological cycle. 2) The embodied responses of microorganisms to historical patterns of pollution and their mobilisation as evidential matter. 3) The potential of participatory microbiology in fostering novel human-microbial relations in highly modified fluvial zones. The project draws on more-than-human geography, urban political ecology, critical physical geography, and environmental microbiology to develop a methodologically experimental and interdisciplinary project.
Funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – Project number 556660619