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The provocation of mobile utopias
The energy generated after my visit to CeMoRe in the summer of 2016 is still swirling around me in ways that are both pleasurable and intellectually unsettling. Both states are no doubt useful, welcome, and indeed necessary accompaniments to any honest scholarship....
Proximity, Distance, Comobility
9th November 2016 Southern, J. (2012). Comobility: How Proximity and Distance Travel Together in Locative Media. Canadian Journal for Communications, 37(1), 75–91. Chaired by Monika Buscher. Abstract Mobile phones are becoming increasingly location-aware: they use and...
Mobility Politics
26th October 2016 Cresswell, T. 2010. Towards a politics of mobility. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 28(1): 17-31. Chaired by Stephanie Bayne Sodero. Abstract This paper proposes an approach to mobility that takes both historical mobilities and forms of...
Mobilising the new mobilities paradigm
12th October 2016 Sheller, M., & Urry, J. (2016). Mobilizing the new mobilities paradigm. Applied Mobilities Online first. Chaired by Monika Buscher. Abstract A new mobilities paradigm emerged a decade or so ago in the context of significant theoretical shifts,...
What’s mobile: The mobile favela
Camila Moraes presents her ongoing research on Brazilian favelas. She is concerned with the mobilization of these spaces as tourist attractions through various images and objects.
What’s Mobile: Mobility Practices and Systems of Mobilities
James Faulconbridge’s research focuses on the now central role of mobility in both day-to-day social life and in the reproduction of business practices.
SecInCoRe Co-Design Workshop
SecInCore Team Members engaged with an international group of disaster practioners and planners in a two-day workshop designed to delve into our concept and its design implications for the final year of the project. Participants included member of the Lancashire Local...
Four Scenarios of Future Urban E-mobility in China
What will it be like to live in Chinese cities as e-mobility takes hold? This is the question that has been investigated by a team at CeMoRe and the Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University.
Art and Mobility on the Magdalen Islands (les Iles-de-la-Madeleine)
For three weeks (5 – 26 June 2016) I took part in the Chant des pistes / Songlines artist residency on the Magdalen Islands archipelago in Quebec, Canada.
What’s mobile: Smart Technologies in Everyday Life
Yolande Strengers discusses the mobile extensions of the home in the age of the Internet of Things.
What’s Mobile: Disability, impairment and (im)mobility
Hannah Morgan, Lecturer in Sociology, discusses how disability studies relate with mobilities.
What’s mobile: Past Futures | 1851 to 2051
Carlos López Galviz, Lecturer in The Theory and Methods of Social Futures, tells us how past futures connect with mobility and place.
What’s mobile: Data Prototyping and Visualisation
Dan Richards, Lecturer in Data Prototyping and Visualisation, at Imagination Lancaster, talks about emerging design practices which require increased disciplinary and informational mobility.
Exploring mobile consumption with spatial analysis
The aim of the workshop ‘Mobilizing the Urban Model: A Workshop on Spatial Analysis and Mobile Utopias of Consumption’ was to explore mobilities of urban consumption through a mixed methods approach
What’s Mobile: Moving through Cave Space
Frank Pearson, PhD student at Lancaster University, presents his research on the mobilities of caving.
11 May 2016 Mobilities Reading
‘From Terror to Grace’ Chapter 1 from Ruth Levitas Utopia as Method: The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society
Historical Mobilities in Australia and New Zealand
Cathy Coleborne’s book engages with issues of the mobility of people across the British Empire to Australia and New Zealand in the second half of the nineteenth century.