Mobile Utopia Gallery
Here’s how a cartoonist summarises ideas developed at the Mobile Utopia Workshop
Mobile Utopia Campus in the City 18th May 2016
Join us for a morning of Mobile Utopia on the 18th of May, 10:00 – 12:00, St Nicholas Arcades.
About the Mobile Utopia Project
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(Un) Making Space for the Car at Home
By Nicola Spurling In our recent Mobile Utopias 1851-2051 workshop one of the topics that came up was ‘what would happen to all the parking space in cities, if there were no more cars?’ (see blogpost by Georgia Newmarch, 24th April 2016). A related question, is through what processes might parking space in our cities, […]
Creating A Mobile Utopia
Object-based thinking encourages an exploration of how we place importance on aspects of our daily lives. For the Mobile Utopias workshop, participants were asked to bring an object which represented their mobile Utopia/dystopia. Objects ranged from a small dog (unfortunately not a real one) to an early form of bike light. Participants were asked to […]
Mobile Utopias Road Atlas
Our research on Mobile Utopias is progressing along a number of routes. Need help navigating? Check out our: Mobile Utopias Research Road_Atlas
Mobile Utopia 1851-2051 Workshop
Utopian Everyday 006 – Going to Work
This is a delivery bike that was probably used by local tradesmen like joiners and plumbers where they would just stick everything into the box and go to work. A plumber would carry his pipes and tools and anything he needed to do his work. It has solid tyres so you were guaranteed to never […]
Utopian Everyday 007 – Milk
There was a local farmer in Caton who would deliver milk, twice a day, after the morning and evening milking. The milk wasn’t pasteurised then, so it didn’t keep. People wouldn’t have refrigerators. So these were essential. Some of the farmers would have their own names on the bottles. The empties would be washed and […]
Utopian Everyday 008 – Delivery Vans
In the village, there was a grocery store. Basically Asda do these deliveries now, Tesco’s do deliveries. I did it as a grocery boy, on a bicycle. In the modern era you can order your stuff online. Well people used to go to the shop, order their groceries and I would deliver them all around […]