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Henry Mainsah is a senior researcher at Consumption Research Norway (SIFO), Oslo Metropolitan University. He has a PhD in Media and Communication from the University of Oslo and he was previously Associate Professor at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. He conducts research interdisciplinary between the social sciences and the design disciplines and his research interests include urban technologies, social media, smart living, place-making practices, creative research methods, participatory design, and new literacies. His primary interest in the COST Action CA18126 Writing Urban Places – New Narratives of the European City is on projective methods for understanding urban narratives and future urban visions.
COST provides networking opportunities for researchers and innovators in order to strengthen Europe’s capacity to address scientific, technological and societal challenges. There are three strategic priorities: promoting and spreading excellence, fostering interdisciplinary research for breakthrough science and empowering and retaining young researchers and innovators.
Writing Urban Places proposes an innovative investigation and implementation of a process for developing human understanding of communities, their society, and their situatedness, by narrative methods. It particularly focuses on the potential of narrative methods for urban development in European medium-sized cities.
