This course aims at investigating interdisciplinary modes of inquiry informed by and contributing to a media-related understanding of the urban environment. It starts by defining key terms, such as “urban media,” providing foundational readings in the field of urban media studies and urban cultural studies. It then explores the relationship between technology and the city. The first weeks provide foundational readings on: semiotic, narrative, Marxist, ethnographic, feminist, and intersectional approaches to the city, in order to give students analytical techniques and methods of inquiry to analyze urban sites. The second part of the course focuses on different media/technologies, performance and artist/activist interventions, to finally turn to the so-called “smart” and “post-digital” city from a critical standpoint. During the second part of the course, students will conduct a multisensory/multimedia/interdisciplinary practice-based study of specific urban sites. The course will provide students with tools in urban ethnography from an audiovisual/multimedia and sensory perspective (including direct/participant observation, interviews, mind mappings, sound and video recordings, sketching, etc). Students will analyze specific urban sites in Rome in relation to a theme established at the beginning of the course and will create: sound-maps, video-essays, photo-essays, interactive maps, and other multi-media sensory ethnographic outcomes.