Researching Material and Social Landscapes using Multi-Modal and Mobile Methods

This is a recording of a presentation given at Methods in Dialogue: Researching the Environment, 13 October 2010 at the University of Manchester.

This paper is concerned with exploring the interplay between material, economic and social landscapes, and young people's lives. In particular the paper draws on a project which sought to articulate the ways in which narratives of the transformation, redevelopment and regeneration of place sit alongside the biographical transformations of young people themselves, as they make their transitions into adulthood. The paper explores the possibilities and opportunities afforded by methods that seek to capture the mobility and multimodality of place and biography, of lives being lived and lived through, and of places being lived with and lived in.