Together with his colleagues Paroj Banerjee, Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London (UCL), and Ishita Chatterjee, O.P. Jindal Global University, India, Raffael Beier (IPS) has received funding through the USF Seminar Series Award 2025-2026. The seminar series "Epistemes of Non-Dominant Inhabitation: a seminar series for early-career and under-represented scholars to decentre urban knowledge" highlights the contributions of early-career and underrepresented scholars who explore diverse forms of urban inhabitation, moving beyond what we typically consider “normal” ways of dwelling. By delving deeply into the everyday lives of urban residents, the series aims to demonstrate how people living in cities are questioning and challenging mainstream ideas about how we should inhabit our urban spaces. The project seeks to define ‘non-dominance’ as spatio-temporal ontologies located at peripheries of power, which can be read through the deviations from normative expectations of how people should inhabit the city.