{"id":228,"date":"2016-03-17T09:58:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T09:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/mobility-futures\/?page_id=228"},"modified":"2016-03-17T09:58:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T09:58:47","slug":"mobile-methods","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/mobility-futures\/mobile-methods\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Methods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research often gives in to the temptation to fix, isolate, hold down and dissect its\u00a0phenomena. This seems necessary to be able to study them. However, this approach can blind us to the lively, performative, mobile nature of phenomena. Bergson\u2019s call to recognise that \u2018<span class=\"s1\">reality is movement\u2019 and for us scientists to \u2018<\/span><span class=\"s1\">install ourselves within it\u2019 (see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/mobilities-experiments\/2015\/07\/24\/29-july-2015-the-cinematographical-mechanism-of-thought-and-the-mechanistic-illusion\/\">Mobilities reading group<\/a>). Reality isn\u2019t just movement in the sense of being on the move, but also in blocked and arrested movement, border and boundary making, stillness. Mobile methods<\/span>\u00a0address some problems and opportunities of doing research which respond to the challenges of installing oneself within movement in this sense. Mobile methods seek to afford this by trying to move with, and to be moved by, the fleeting, distributed, multiple, non-causal, sensory, emotional and kinaesthetic.<\/p>\n<p>An inevitable corollary of this methodology is an orientation towards research co-creation, inventive methods, artistic methods, experimentation and experimentality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Research often gives in to the temptation to fix, isolate, hold down and dissect its\u00a0phenomena. This seems necessary to be able to study them. However, this approach can blind us to the lively, performative, mobile nature of phenomena. Bergson\u2019s call to recognise that \u2018reality is movement\u2019 and for us scientists to \u2018install ourselves within it\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-228","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/mobility-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/mobility-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/mobility-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/mobility-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/mobility-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/mobility-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/mobility-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/228\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/mobility-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}