Co-Creating Futures through Research
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’ […]
How are the mobilities of capitalism changing?
2015 has seen the biggest refugee crisis in Europe. In 2014 the number of people displaced by conflict and persecution increased by 8.3 million, reaching a total of 59.5 million, with 6.47 million internally displaced in Syria and Afghanistan (OCHA 2015). Yet, despite this well known calamity, Europe and the world were unprepared for the refugee […]
Experiment earth (Stilgoe 2015) addresses ideas of geoengineering, but some are thinking of jumping Ship. What mobility futures beyond planet Earth? Video of Stilgoe’s Experiment Earth argument https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sekLudN3OkA
Source: http://www.dw.com/en/global-ideas-soil-erosion-agriculture-europe/a-18807131 David Montgomery (2007) writes: today it takes erosion less than 40 years, on average, to strip an inch of soil off agricultural fields – more than 20 times the geologic rate Humanity is living beyond the earth’s capacity in a way that can prove catastrophic in so many ways. Soil erosion is more […]
Mobile publics or ‘issue publics’ are coming of age. After more than a decade of gathering in hybrid digital public spaces, what are the promise, premises, risks of mobile publics in the future? With Belgians responding to calls not to tweet about emergency operations during the #brusselslockdown with images of cats, what are the effects […]
The fact that we live in a century of disasters is giving rise to calls for exceptional mobilities for disaster risk management. This ranges from physically mobilising resources (pumps, emergency responders travelling to global emergencies) to the mobilisation of digital humanitarians for crisis mapping to calls for unprecedented interoperability between public, government and commercial information […]
Source: The Atlantic London’s Fogs lifted in 1956. But air pollution is a significant problem today. What are the mobilities of air pollution? Whose moves mobilise what? How are mobilities of emissions and particles controlled, blocked? What is the future of air pollution? Does participatory mobile measuring help? BBC article on how past-present-future come together here http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151221-the-lethal-effects-of-london-fog Article […]
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? […]