Co-Creating Futures through Research
The idea of Utopia is one which many are unfamiliar with. What does it mean to you, what is your Utopia? It’s a difficult question to answer. The desire for a better way of living is a very personal interpretation of big concepts, as a result discussions of Utopias are usually considered within a framework […]
What is the future of mobile consumption? How can we design future using space syntax and mobile utopia as a method? Mobilizing the Urban Model: A Workshop on Spatial Analysis and Mobile Utopias of Consumption by Zofia Bednarowska A one-day workshop on mobile future was hosted by the Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe) with funding […]
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, […]
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 […]