This paper explores the intersection of everyday urbanism and digitalization, drawing insights from a multidisciplinary workshop fostering critical dialogue and shaping research agendas. It extends the discourse beyond practical applications, questioning societal and urban impacts and what it means to be human. The discussion highlights the evolving digital-physical relationship, the paradox of digital platforms in human interaction, emerging city management and participatory ecosystems in data era, and the validation of digital realities. The paper concludes that challenge for urban policy and research is to harness digital technology for sustainable ways of being, ensuring a more connected rather than fragmented world.

This article presents a methodological toolset for qualitative socio-spatial analyses based on sociologist Henri Lefebvre's spatial theory (Lefebvre, 1991). While Lefebvre has been extensively treated as an urban theorist, his work has not been widely explored from a methodological perspective. In the article, Lefebvre's spatial triad is particularly used to de-velop a concrete methodology for qualitative socio-spatial analyses. While simultaneously focusing on general methodological aspects, this article draws on how the author applied Lefebvre's spatial theory in a sociological study about intercultural engagements in Shang-hai in the context of China's opening up reforms. More specifically, Lefebvre's spatial triad is discussed in relation to a bodily engaged research practice, ethnography and four theory of social science approaches.