{"id":85,"date":"2017-03-12T19:41:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T19:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cemore-bonfire\/?page_id=85"},"modified":"2017-10-12T06:59:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T06:59:08","slug":"mobile-utopia-experiment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cemore-bonfire\/mobile-utopia-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mobile Utopia Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>The <em>Mobile Utopia Experiment <\/em>is a creative enactment of a mobile utopia made concrete and personal in Lancaster, a medium-size university town. The enactment envisages how people, objects, ideas, resources will travel in a near-ish future of 2051. It explores, for example:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>the social life and moral order of traffic as it increasingly incorporates \u2018driverless\u2019 mobile pods, dynamic on-demand ride sharing, a more densely populated\u00a0vertical dimension, as well as incorporating more walking and cyclin<\/li>\n<li>social and material practices of mobilities of work, home and leisure<\/li>\n<li>the im|material im|mobilities of plastic, bacteria, CO2, aerial particulates and data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enactment is facilitated through a game, its components are activities, lived, prefigurative enactments of mobile utopias in the here and now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are mobile utopia experiments?<\/strong>\u00a0Mobile\u00a0Utopia experiments\u00a0are ways of making futures inhabitable enough to experiment with new ways of working, living, thinking, making relationships, enacting responsibilities, playing, learning and so on. They could be thought experiments, facilitated through narrative, visualisations, scenarios, or modelling, they could be interactive performances, installations, artworks. Individual experiments must seek to engage members of the public (students and staff on campus, residents of Lancaster and Morecambe, visitors), and the more hands on they are, the better, because that invites more than\u00a0discursive reflection and creativity, allowing embodied, social and sensory experimentation. The pre-enactment experiments should envisage how people, objects, ideas, resources will travel in a near-ish future of 2051 and make pockets of such futures inhabitable.<\/p>\n<p>Have a look at some <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cemore-bonfire\/experiments\/\">examples\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to take part?<\/strong>\u00a0 To become part of the big\u00a0<strong>Mobile Utopia Experiment<\/strong>, please\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/t2mc2c\/contact-us\/\">contact us<\/a>. There are\u00a0two UtopiaLabs scheduled on 28th June and 28th September 2017 at CeMoRe, and many\u00a0experiments will take place 1-2 November 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When do the\u00a0mobile utopia experiments happen?<\/strong>\u00a0The mobile utopia experiments can happen anytime between now and 1-2 November. They will\u00a0be documented with a &#8216;time capsule from the future&#8217;, containing e.g. objects, pictures, stories, and quotes from participants. If experiments\u00a0runbefore 1-2 November, they will re-run on 1-2 November, because on those days all experiments come together as one big\u00a0<strong>Mobile Utopia Experiment<\/strong>\u00a0and we will attempt integrative analysis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What makes them mobile?<\/strong>\u00a0Mobile utopia experiments\u00a0are\u00a0mobile in two senses: Firstly, they come at ideas of utopia\/dystopia with an analytical orientation to movement, blocked movement, moorings, stillness, speed, slowness. These might be mobilities of people, objects, information, ideas, microbes, no limits. Secondly they \u2018move in\u2019 or \u2018into\u2019 the future, they use mobile, inventive methods to move with people, objects, information, and allow researchers and participants to be moved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why \u2018mobilise\u2019\u00a0utopia?<\/strong>\u00a0We \u2018mobilise\u2019\u00a0utopia as method in Levitas\u2019 sense, because it allows us to \u2018stay with the troubles\u2019 (Haraway 2016) of mobility systems and experiment with\u00a0social futures (Urry 2016). Mobilising utopia as method encourages\u00a0critical, ethically reflexive and creative inquiry and it is integrative, making the \u2018systemness\u2019 of forms of everyday life available for reflection and change. For more information about our motivations, see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cemore-bonfire\/background\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The Mobile Utopia Experiment\u00a01-2 November 2017<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>For a day and a half, the individual experiments will come together as one big\u00a0<strong>Mobile Utopia<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Experiment\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 a series of \u2018stations\u2019 available on campus, online and in Lancaster.<\/p>\n<p>People who participate will experience the experiments as activities in a game \u2013 they can enter anytime during the 1.5 days, for as long as they like. They are the utopians, their task is to live and document a\u00a0utopian everyday. They do what they normally do in a day, but they build in some of the experimental activities to \u2018step into\u2019 the future. Documentation of their engagement and reflections\u00a0is part of the activity. Players gather badges at game stations. The player with the most badges will receive a prize at the\u00a0<strong>Mobile Utopia Conference<\/strong>\u00a0Banquet.<\/p>\n<p>To participate in the<strong>\u00a0Mobile Utopia Experiment<\/strong>\u00a0and the analysis (but not run your own experiment) join the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cemore-bonfire\/participate-bonfire-school\/\">Bonfire School<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>or <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/t2mc2c\/contact-us\/\">contact us<\/a>\u00a0for information.<\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>Note that the Mobile Utopia Experiment\u00a0is one of several events and we would be delighted to welcome you for the whole week.<\/p>\n<p>There are many\u00a0ways to participate:<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 865px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 13px\">1.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 518.3505859375px\">Take part in all of it, the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cemore-bonfire\/participate-bonfire-school\/\">Bonfire School<\/a><\/strong>, the<a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cemore-bonfire\/mobile-utopia-experiment\/\"><strong>\u00a0Mobile Utopia Experiment<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/t2mc2c\/\">Mobile Utopia Conference<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 315.6494140625px\">30th October \u2013 5th November 2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 13px\">2.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 518.3505859375px\">Join the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cemore-bonfire\/participate-bonfire-school\/\">Bonfire School<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>to discuss your research and\u00a0participate in the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cemore-bonfire\/mobile-utopia-experiment\/\">Mobile Utopia Experiment<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(you don\u2019t have to bring\u00a0an experiment)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 315.6494140625px\">30th October &#8211; 2nd November 2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 13px\">3.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 518.3505859375px\">Make a\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cemore-bonfire\/mobile-utopia-experiment\/\">Mobile Utopia Experiment<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and bring it to Lancaster<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 315.6494140625px\">1-2nd November 2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>We\u2019d be delighted\u00a0to meet you.\u00a0Please follow the individual links above for instructions. Registration is open and available here (early registration is recommended).<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, please <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/t2mc2c\/contact-us\/\">contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mobile Utopia Experiment is a creative enactment of a mobile utopia made concrete and personal in Lancaster, a medium-size university town. The enactment envisages how people, objects, ideas, resources will travel in a near-ish future of 2051. 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