Resources

Research output

Rastrick, Ó. (forthcoming). Sensing and Storying the Urban Landscape: People-place Relations in Central Reykjavík. ARV: Nordic Yearbook of Folklore 2025 (81).

Rastrick, Ó. (2025). Emplaced Memories in the Urban Landscape. In Gunnþórunn Gudmundsdóttir and Ulla Savolainen (eds.), Memory Studies in the Nordic Countries: A Handbook, 405-428, Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004736283_018
See also Kudos

Johannesdottir, S.G., & Rastrick, Ó. (2024). Engaging (with) Places: Employing audio-visual recording glasses to study emplaced attachments to everyday features of the historic urban landscape. Ethnologia Fennica, 51(2), 7–34. https://doi.org/10.23991/ef.v51i2.142184

Conferences

Panels:

University of Iceland, Þjóðarspegill 30-31 Oct 2025. Fólk-staðir-reynitré: Frásagnir, minni, merking.
SIEF2023 16th Congress. Brno, Czech Republic: 7-10 June 2023. Urba05: Affective engagements with the historic urban landscape – how do we proceed?
Nordic Ethnography and Folklore Conference, Reykjavík: 13-16 June 2022. Heri01: Revisiting place: sensual encounters with everyday heritage in the urban landscape.

Individual presentations:

SIEF2025 17th Congress. Aberdeen, Scotland: June 3–6 2025.
36th international Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference, Turku, Finland: June 11-14.
University of Iceland, Þjóðarspegill 30 Oct-1 Nov 2024.
Ethnographic knowledge in reshaping the historic and contemporary urban space, Webiner orginised by the University of Turku, 8 May 2024.
NIKU, Oslo 12 Oct 2023.
University of Oslo, IKOS, 9 Oct 2023.
EURA, Reykjavik 22-26 June 2023.

Media

English:

Björn Gíslason. A new study investigates the emotional bond people form with places in downtown Reykjavík . University of Iceland Newsletter, 29 May 2024.

Icelandic:

Dagrún Ósk Jónsdóttir and Sigurlaug Dagsdóttir. Haunted: Minningar um miðborg Reykjavíkur. Þjóðhættir [hlaðvarp]. Heimildin 12. nóvember 2024.
Björn Gíslanson. Rannsaka tilfinningaleg tengsl við staði í miðborg Reykjavíkur. Fréttabréf Háskóla Íslands, 30. maí 2024.
Arnhildur Hálfdánardóttir. Samfélagið. RÚV, Rás 1 (Icelandic national radio 1), 19. apríl 2024.
Alma Mjöll Ólafsdóttir. Upplifun og reynsla mótar tengsl við borgarlandslag, Heimildin, 8. apríl 2023.