My name is Katrina Jungnickel. I started this project in 2003 as a Research Fellow at s t u d i o INCITE (Incubator for Critical Inquiry into Technology and Enquiry) at the University of Surrey. The project was funded for three months but I became too interested in it to stop. As a result, it continued it for almost three years. Although it is now finished, I have left it online for archival purposes.

I have since finished my PhD, in the Sociology Department at Goldsmiths College and continue to particpate as a member of Studio INCITE. My research explored the innovative practices of DIY/ grassroots technology makers operating on the fringes of large scale institutions with a particular emphasis on the role and importance of materiality and representational practices. For my thesis I undertook two ethnographies: a freakbike club and the largest volunteer community WFi network group in Australia.

More of my work and interests can be found at:

- Making WiFi: Research blog documenting my PhD

- Cycling Cultures: Postdoctorate research fellowship exploring cycling in the UK

- Located Mobility: One year research project finded by s t u d i o INCITE and Intel. It was titled: Wireless infrastructures and the changing nature of domestic culture in Australia

- s t u d i o INCITE: Sociology research lab at Goldsmiths


I can be contacted at kat [dot] jungnickel [at] gmail [dot] com

As this is sociological research publication, it should be cited or briefly quoted in line with the usual academic conventions. However, the data on this project website must not be published elsewhere without the author's explicit permission. If you reference this project you should observe the conventions of academic citation in a version of the following form:

Jungnickel, Katrina. ‘73 Urban Journeys' published by Studio INCITE,Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, Available at http://www.73urbanjourneys.com
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