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Mobile Utopia 1851-2051 is a research co-creation project that seeks to develop a deeper understanding of mobile utopias (and dystopias), and to creatively analyse and explore these. Critically, \u2018mobile utopias\u2019 are not transport utopias. Communicative, imaginative, embodied and disembodied, utopian and dystopian mobilities of information, people, goods, ideas as well as practices of immobilising, obstructions, borders, stasis, slowness intersect in the making of pasts, presents, futures.<\/p>\n
There are a range of activities. Please follow the links below to find out how you can\u00a0participate:<\/p>\n
12-14 December 2016 Writing Retreat<\/strong><\/p>\n Mobile Utopia at\u00a0the J Edmond Safra Fountain Court at Somerset House<\/a>, London Mobile Utopia at the Cemore Away Day<\/strong><\/a> Mobile Utopia @Lancaster Campus in The City<\/strong><\/a> Nicola Spurling at the\u00a0<\/a>Centre for Mobilities Research Showcase<\/a> Mobile Utopias Research Co-Creation Workshop<\/a> Mobilizing the Urban Model: \u00a0<\/strong><\/a>A Workshop on Spatial Analysis and Mobile Utopias of Consumption<\/a><\/strong>, 18th April 2016, 09:30-15:00, Lancaster University, Bowland North, SR 07<\/strong><\/p>\n The project is developed through\u00a0collaboration with different communities in Lancaster and Birmingham. It will take part in celebrations around the 500th Anniversary of the publication of Thomas More\u2019s Utopia. The interdisciplinary group of researchers led by\u00a0Nick Dunn<\/a>, Professor of Urban Design, includes\u00a0Monika B\u00fcscher<\/a>,\u00a0Lynne Pearce<\/a>,\u00a0Nicola Spurling<\/a>, and\u00a0Carlos L\u00f3pez Galviz<\/a>.<\/p>\n Critically, \u2018mobile utopias\u2019 are not transport utopias. Communicative, imaginative, embodied and disembodied, utopian and dystopian mobilities of information, people, goods, ideas as well as practices of immobilising, obstructions, borders, stasis, slowness intersect in the making of pasts, presents, futures. Here are some examples from our growing collection of utopian everyday objects and stories.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mobile Utopia 1851-2051 is a research co-creation project that seeks to develop a deeper understanding of mobile utopias (and dystopias), and to creatively analyse and explore these. Critically, \u2018mobile utopias\u2019 are not transport utopias. Communicative, imaginative, embodied and disembodied, utopian and dystopian mobilities of information, people, goods, ideas as well as practices of immobilising, obstructions, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile-utopia","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/mobility-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/mobility-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/mobility-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/mobility-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/mobility-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/mobility-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/mobility-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/mobility-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/mobility-futures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n2 June 2016, Ellel Village Hall<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n18th May 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n20th April 2016\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n19th April 2016, 11:00 – 16:00, Design Studio, Lancaster University<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\nBackground<\/h2>\n