Co-Creating Futures through Research
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 […]
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https://www.kcet.org/departures-columns/smog-in-a-can-genuine-los-angeles-smog Images Courtesy Stephen Mosley
A compass – we don’t use them in cities, at all. We think of them as useless, because we think cities are laid out ready for us, but … Robin Smith, Extraordinary Fellow at the Centre for Mobilities Research in 2016
In conversation with Carlos López Galviz: Tolerance in public space expressed visually: Utopia Dystopia
In an emergency like the recent blackout in Lancaster during the 2015 UK Floods, how much use will electric cars be? I don’t think cars will even look like the cars we have today. Julie Ferguson, emergency manager at Lancaster University
Research often gives in to the temptation to fix, isolate, hold down and dissect its phenomena. This seems necessary to be able to study them. However, this approach can blind us to the lively, performative, mobile nature of phenomena. Bergson’s call to recognise that ‘reality is movement’ and for us scientists to ‘install ourselves within it’ […]
How are the mobilities of capitalism changing?
2015 has seen the biggest refugee crisis in Europe. In 2014 the number of people displaced by conflict and persecution increased by 8.3 million, reaching a total of 59.5 million, with 6.47 million internally displaced in Syria and Afghanistan (OCHA 2015). Yet, despite this well known calamity, Europe and the world were unprepared for the refugee […]
Experiment earth (Stilgoe 2015) addresses ideas of geoengineering, but some are thinking of jumping Ship. What mobility futures beyond planet Earth? Video of Stilgoe’s Experiment Earth argument https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sekLudN3OkA