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 […]
Utopian Everyday 005 Driverless Utopia
https://youtu.be/PoLFP_U2u-k
Utopian Everyday 004 – Air Mobilities
https://www.kcet.org/departures-columns/smog-in-a-can-genuine-los-angeles-smog Images Courtesy Stephen Mosley
Utopian Everyday 002 – Urban Navigation
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
Utopian Everyday 001 – Tolerance
In conversation with Carlos López Galviz: Tolerance in public space expressed visually: Utopia Dystopia
Automobility Futures
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? […]