Public space, urban aesthetics, graffiti culture, and craft consumerism
Tyson Mitman studies how people use space and make their lives in it. His research focuses on public aesthetics and graffiti culture, how graffiti writers and street artists construct their identity within their subculture, how they produce a type of political discourse, and what effects they have on space and people. He also studies craft beer and craft consumerism, looking at how those producers work to find space within a crowded marketplace dominated by large-scale brewers and how they create and maintain their identity and authenticity within that market.