Co-Creating Futures through Research
The category ‘Mobility Systems’ collects discussions of how mobilities are systemic phenomena, what makes a system, and how systems are changing, how they perhaps should and how they should not change.
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 […]
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 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’ […]
We might have reached peak car or perhaps gone over the hill. However, what futures of Automobility are on the horizon? What futures do we want? Who’s ‘we’? How do car based automobilities relate to autonomous vehicles? How do they relate to the auto mobilities of walking, wheeling and other forms of autonomous human mobilities? […]
How to think of the futures of mobilities differently? In ways that make less able-ist worlds possible? My inspiration for this theme are Laurence Parent and Kim Sawchuk. Here’s a website with videos from Laurence’s wheeling interviews http://www.radicalaffordances.ca/laurence-parent/