Mobile Cultures of Disaster Video
I've returned inspired from the Mobile Cultures of Disaster Conference, 22 March - 24 March 2017 at the University of South Australia in Adelaide. Supported by the Japan Foundation, the Hawke Research Institute at the University of South Australia, the School of...
Consumption and urban public space
The Cemore reading group will meet on Wednesday 10th May, 4-5 pm in Mobilities Lab to discuss: Prashan Ranasinghe. 2011. “Public Disorder and Its Relation to the Community-Civility-Consumption Triad: A Case Study on the Uses and Users of Contemporary Urban Public...
CeMoRe Conference Launches New Book Series
Last month Lancaster University’s Centre for Mobilities Research hosted the inaugural conference of Palgrave Macmillan’s new book series, Mobilites, Literature, Culture. The conference - which was organised by Lynne Pearce (from the Department of English and...
Mobile Utopia exhibition deadline – May 5th
LAST CHANCE! The deadline for submitting artworks and posters for the exhibition is May 5th. Submission guidelines can be found here.
Mobilities Equipment is Moving
The mobilities lab is moving over to a new online booking system for research equipment! We are in the process of transferring to this system so please bear with us - we aim to keep all equipment available during this period. Equipment will be reserved and collected...
Mobilities design – discussing Ole Jensen’s paper
The Cemore reading group will next meet to discuss: Ole Jensen (2016) - Of ‘other’ materialities: why (mobilities) design is central to the future of mobilities research, Mobilities, 11:4, 587-597, DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1211826. The link to this article:...
Mobilities, Literature and Culture Conference
On April 21-22nd 2017 CeMoRe will host the inaugural conference of the new Palgrave Macmillan book series, Studies in Mobilities, Literature and Culture. The series directors - Charlotte Mathieson (University of Surrey), Marian Aguiar (Carnegie Mellon, USA), and Lynne...
Mobilising Data: isITethical? at PSCE 2017
Cemore's Monika Büscher and Malé Luján Escalante will take the game isITethical to the Public Safety Communications Europe Conference in Munich, 3-5 May 2017. Abstract IsITethical? The Board Game: experimenting with ethical impact assessment as creative collaborative...
By Duddon’s Side with Nikki Pugh 27 April 2017
Cemore Seminar: Standing in a cold river for an hour, nervous explorations underground, scrubbing a handmade kayak and listening to a waterfall from the inside: just some of the things artist Nikki Pugh found herself doing over the last few months as she investigated...
Infrastructuring Mobile Utopia: Global Challenges, Global Responses
Cemore's Monika Buscher is giving a keynote at the Living Infrastructures, Volgograd, 27-28 April 2017. https://livinginfrastructures.wordpress.com/about/ Abstract: Since the 1992 Earth Summit, 4.4 billion people or 64% of the world’s population have been affected by...
Mobile Cultures of Disaster Conference
Cemore Director Monika Büscher is giving a keynote at the Mobile Cultures of Disasters Conference in Adelaide. A Mobile Utopia of Radically Reflexive Resilience Since the 1992 Earth Summit, 4.4 billion people or 64% of the world’s population have been affected by...
NoWHere: Futures of Collaboration
To experiment with futures of collaboration, the NowHere project team are running a 'no-fly' workshop. On 27th March 2017, Monika Buscher, Andrew Glover, Tania Lewis and Yolanda Strengers at RMIT in Melbourne (16:00) will start the workshop with James Faulconbridge,...
Out Now: Data Publics Programme
The Final Programme for Data Publics: Investigating the formation and representation of crowds, groups and clusters in digital economies Lancaster University, March 31 / April 1 & 2, 2017 This conference will investigate the diverse ways in which publics are, and...
Mobilities, Literature, Culture: CeMoRe hosts April conference
On April 21-22nd 2017 CeMoRe will host the inaugural conference of the new Palgrave Macmillan book series, Studies in Mobilities, Literature and Culture. The series directors - Charlotte Mathieson (University of Surrey), Marian Aguiar (Carnegie Mellon, USA),...
Taking out the trash
Picking Up is about the seemingly mundane and certainly smelly world of garbage collection in New York City. Author Robin Nagle is motivated by the question, “Who cleans up after us?” She works as an anthropologist-in-residence at the New York Department of Sanitation...
Reading Ranciere 1st March 2017
1st March Let's read 'Artistic Regimes and the Shortcomings of the Notion of Modernity' from Ranciere's the politics of aesthetics (2004, pp. 20-30. http://www.stroom.nl/media/Ranciere_The%20Distribution%20of%20The%20Sensible_Politics%20of%20Aesthetics.pdf...
A body spa on the move: The emperor’s bathing experience
How does a sensual bathing experience link to a digitized one? Kornelia Hahn, professor of Sociology at the University of Salzburg, presents an empirical case of a popular commodified spa body treatment that is marketed as the emperor’s bathing experience. ...
Cemore Showcase
Last week we organized another edition of Cemore Showcase, featuring 3-minute stand-up presentations by our researchers and associates. A dozen presentations on topics ranging from cycling to migration, to autonomous driving, to death in digital games have been...