Co-Creating Futures through Research
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’ […]
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 […]
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/