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 […]
Here’s how a cartoonist summarises ideas developed at the Mobile Utopia Workshop
Join us for a morning of Mobile Utopia on the 18th of May, 10:00 – 12:00, St Nicholas Arcades.
To find out more about the mobile utopia project, follow this link.
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 […]
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 […]
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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