"Researching otherwise" is a transformative approach to scholarship, particularly in urban and landscape studies, that challenges conventional, often Western-centric, research paradigms. It calls for alternative, decolonial, and pluriversal ways of knowing and doing to address existing gaps such as the privileging of verbal-textual methods, anthropocentrism, disembodiment, and the suppression of creative and imaginative research possibilities.

The core aims of "researching otherwise" include:

• Unearthing and unmasking systems of power and domination, particularly those rooted in colonial and imperial histories.

• Researching "possible other worlds" and acknowledging the multiplicity of worldviews (ontologies) beyond a singular, universal perspective.

• Advancing epistemic justice by recognizing, valuing, and integrating diverse knowledges, especially those from subaltern, Indigenous, and historically excluded communities.

• Redistributing authority in knowledge production and fostering genuinely collaborative, ethical, and situated methodologies where communities are co-creators, not merely subjects.

• Countering the disembodiment of research and embracing relationality, interdependence, and a focus on lived experience.

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Methodologically, "researching otherwise" employs sensory, collaborative, and restitutive tools, such as:

• Drawing, photography, sounding and listening, ethnographic filmmaking, walking, and radical cartography to produce polysensorial accounts and make visible previously unseen aspects of environments.

• Creative and imaginative methodologies, including critical fabulations and potential histories, which rework storytelling and imagine alternative futures.

• Transdisciplinary approaches like Participatory Action Research (PAR) and Transdisciplinary Action Research (TDAR), which bridge theory and practice, and actively collaborate with non-specialists.

• Multispecies and more-than-human ethnography, decentering humans to include the shaping influence of animals, plants, and other organisms on lifeworlds.