The Geographie-Werkstatt 2024 of the Association of Academic Geography in Austria (Geographieverband) is this time hosted by the Department of Geography of the University of Innsbruck, It focuses on on discussing geographic methodologies: integration, experimentation, and innovation. Geographic research spans the nexus of society, technology and environment, embracing interdisciplinarity, both within and beyond the discipline. It is characterized by a wide array of ontologies, epistemologies and related methodologies and methods. Geographers not only combine methodologies and methods from other disciplines, but they also actively experiment, advance, and innovate in the realms of methods. This is the case not only within the inherently methodological geographical sub-strands such as geography education, remote sensing, environmental modeling, (geo-)statistics, geographical information systems, cartography, but across diverse human geographies, physical geographies and integrative geographical research. Beyond rigorous basic research methods, geographers apply transdisciplinary, participatory, and co-creative methodologies with the aim to contribute to addressing pressing grand challenges, including the climate crisis, natural hazards, demographic change, conflict and war, and digitization. The incorporation of technologies – as research tools and research focus – entails possibilities as well as challenges including research-ethical questions. Content Novel Methodologies for (Human) Geographies; Human-Nature-Interrelations; Inter- and transdisciplinary research methodologies; Mapping Approaches; Methods for improving urban & regional decision-making; Challenges & Opportunities of innovative research methods; Remote sensing; Natural hazards; Earth observation of landscape dynamics.
