Listening, experiencing, drawing or interpreting spaces: narratives, experiences, visualizations and discourses can be helpful for the empirical investigation of spaces. This interdisciplinary handbook presents a broad spectrum of established methods and innovative method development to capture and understand different facets of spaces. Instructive explanations and concrete examples make the varied qualitative methods of spatial research understandable and applicable across disciplines. The theoretical and methodological aspects of qualitative spatial research form the framework of this handbook.

Anna Juliane Heinrich, born in 1987, is a researcher and lecturer at the Chair of Urban Design and Urban Development of Technische Universität Berlin. She is principal investigator of the research project »The Spatial Knowledge of Young Adults: The Constitution of Online, Offline and Hybrid Spaces« and Co-Head of the graduate school of the Collaborative Research Centre »Re-Figuration of Spaces« (CRC 1265) at Technische Universität Berlin. Her research focuses on participation and co-creation in urban development, spatial knowledge, social infrastructures as well as methodologies and methods of research in planning and design.