Co-Creating Futures through Research
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 […]
Our research on Mobile Utopias is progressing along a number of routes. Need help navigating? Check out our: Mobile Utopias Research Road_Atlas
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 […]
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 […]
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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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