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The Mobile Utopia Experiment\u00a01-2 November 2017<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The\u00a0Mobile Utopia Experiment<\/strong>\u00a0is a creative pre-enactment of mobile utopia made concrete and personal in Lancaster, a medium-size university town. Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n

For a day and a half, the individual experiments will come together as one big\u00a0Mobile Utopia<\/strong>\u00a0Experiment\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 a series of \u2018stations\u2019 available on campus, online and in Lancaster.<\/p>\n

People who participate will experience the experiments as activities in a game \u2013 they can enter anytime during the 1.5 days, for as long as they like. They are the utopians, their task is to live and document a\u00a0utopian everyday. They do what they normally do in a day, but they build in some of the experimental activities to \u2018step into\u2019 the future. Documentation of their engagement and reflections\u00a0is part of the activity. Players gather badges at game stations. The player with the most badges will receive a prize at the\u00a0Mobile Utopia Conference<\/strong>\u00a0Banquet.<\/p>\n

To bring an experiment for\u00a0the\u00a0Mobile Utopia Experiment\u00a0<\/strong>please Contact Us.<\/a><\/p>\n

To participate in the\u00a0Mobile Utopia Experiment<\/strong>\u00a0and the analysis (but not run your own experiment) join the\u00a0Bonfire School<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/b>Note that the Mobile Utopia Experiment\u00a0is one of several events and we would be delighted to welcome you for the whole week.<\/p>\n

There are many\u00a0ways to participate:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
1.<\/td>\nTake part in all of it, the\u00a0Bonfire School<\/a><\/strong>, the\u00a0Mobile Utopia Experiment<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0Mobile Utopia Conference<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n29th October \u2013 5th November 2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2.<\/td>\nJoin the\u00a0Bonfire School<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>to discuss your research and\u00a0participate in the\u00a0Mobile Utopia Experiment<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(you don\u2019t have to bring\u00a0an experiment)<\/td>\n29th October – 2nd November 2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3.<\/td>\nMake a\u00a0Mobile Utopia Experiment<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and bring it to Lancaster<\/td>\n1-2nd November 2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

We\u2019d be delighted\u00a0to meet you.\u00a0Please follow the individual links above for instructions. Registration is open and available here (early registration is recommended).<\/p>\n

What are mobile utopia experiments?<\/strong>\u00a0Mobile\u00a0Utopia experiments\u00a0are ways of making futures inhabitable enough to experiment with new ways of working, living, thinking, making relationships, enacting responsibilities, playing, learning and so on. They could be thought experiments, facilitated through narrative, visualisations, scenarios, or modelling, they could be interactive performances, installations, artworks. Individual experiments must seek to engage members of the public (students and staff on campus, residents of Lancaster and Morecambe, visitors), and the more hands on they are, the better, because that invites more than\u00a0discursive reflection and creativity, allowing embodied, social and sensory experimentation. The pre-enactment experiments should envisage how people, objects, ideas, resources will travel in a near-ish future of 2051 and make pockets of such futures inhabitable. They might\u00a0explore, for example:<\/p>\n