Prof. Cultural Anthropology, head of the dep. of Cultural Anthr. at Graz Univ.Diploma (Aix-Marseille), doctorate (Marburg habilitation (Zurich); research/ teaching at the univ. of Basel, Frankfurt/M., Fribourg, Hamburg, Joensuu, Marburg, Neuchâtel, Turku, and Zurich, scientific director of the Centre for Cultural Studies in Architecture at the of ETH Zurich. Everyday culture, mobilities, multilocality, material culture, visual studies, town-space-culture