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.
Inviting Movements: Emerging Critical Disability & Deaf Perspectives and Practices
5th May from 4pm, Bowland North, Seminar Room 01 CeMoRe and CeDR are hosting a live video link to this seminar in Montreal. A live Q&A session will be hosted by Owen Chapman who is a CeMoRe visiting fellow and co-director of the Community and Differential...
Creating A Mobile Utopia
Last week, CeMoRe co-organised the workshop Mobile Utopia. One day of intense play to imagine and develop utopias of everyday life for 2051. Georgia Newmarch reports. Object-based thinking encourages an exploration of how we place importance on aspects of our...
4 May 2016 Mobilities Reading
"The online use of Violence and Journey metaphors by patients with cancer, as compared with health professionals: a mixed methods study" by Elena Semino et al. 4-5PM, Bowland North B37 (Mobilities Lab). Elena will join us to participate in discussion of this reading....
Seeing Revolutionary Info-Structure
Adam Fish blogs about how flying a camera-equipped drone over a data center can improve our infrastructural literacy.
Bicycles, cinema and the spectacle of mechanical movement
Bruce Bennett, Senior Lecturer at LICA, is doing research on a very convivial tandem: bicycles and cinema. He tells our readers why the bicycle was the perfect subject for the first film, in 1895. I am currently studying the history of cycling on screen, and in...
What’s mobile: Bicycle systems
Cosmin Popan, doctoral candidate in Sociology, tells us what’s mobile about researching bicycles and alternative mobility systems.
From Cabin ‘Boys’ to Captains: 250 Years of Women at Sea
Traditionally, a woman’s place was never on stormy seas. But actually thousands of dancers, purserettes, doctors, stewardesses, captains and conductresses have taken to the waveson everything from floating palaces to battered windjammers. Their daring story is barely...