Abstract: This study, currently in progress, is concerned with the circulation of knowledge, practice and objects related to parenting through three contrasting neighbourhoods. This project is motivated by a desire to better understand how parents in different circumstances access, share and produce knowledge about children’s learning and development. We are considering the impact of affordances provided by the spatial and social environment including information points (on- and off-line), displays and meeting places as well as patterns of usage. Here we describe our methodology which incorporates travelling in and through neighbourhoods, visual documentation, mapping, artefact collection, observation, excursions into cyberspace, interviews, collaborative analysis and various methods of representing networks. We discuss the influence of ecological approaches, network theory and geosemiotics on our approach and offer emerging insights from the first year of the project.