Mobile Futures Design Workshop: Disaster, Flooding, Disruption
How do we move vital goods in times of crisis? How do medical and rescue organizations move blood when and where needed? For three days this summer design students and staff from Aalborg University and Lancaster-based community partners – NHS Blood and Transplant,...
Workshop Becoming ‘Sensicle’, September 27
Imagine a future… where vehicles and sensing human bodies have become ‘sensicles’? Join us for a free and co-creative workshop on futurist mobilities on September 27 @ 10am - 4pm.
Playing with Play at CeMoRe Away Day
In this year’s Away Day, Cemore & Co played with play. Lucky enough to catch one of Lancaster’s strange but glorious hot days, Cemore and Imagination friends took the day out in Halton, by the Lune River. The ride was terrific and it took us in a monstrous...
Reading Group: Mobilities and Humanities
18th October 2017 4-5pm, Reading Group Mobilities Lab, Bowland North B37 Mobility and the humanities Peter Merriman & Lynne Pearce
Designing Time Capsules from the Future
Serena Pollastri and Adrian Gradinar design time capsules for the Synthopia experiment. What might be in them? How to enable critical reflection and connect the engagement with 'pockets of futures'? How to enable synthesis and awareness of conflicts and frictions...
Mobilities Issue 12 No. 3 June 2017
With eleven original articles on such diverse topics as security, American airports, music and academia, our June issue of Mobilities is the largest yet. We hope it makes for great summer reading! Security or Insecurity? Representations of the UK Border in Public and...
Data Publics conference: final report
The Data Publics conference ran over three days, from 31st March to 2nd April 2017 at LICA, Lancaster University. It was supported by Cemore, alongside funding and support from a range of other partners, including the Digital Economy Network and the Data...
Mobilities Special Issue on Migration Infrastructures and the Production of Migrant Mobilities
Guest editors Weiqiang Lin, Johan Lindqvist, Biao Xiang and Brenda S.A.Yeoh set out the productive and political nature of infrastructures that affect and inform the way (im)mobilities are created and parsed in migration by looking at East and Southeast Asia migration...
Mobilities 5-year Impact Factor increased to
We are extremely pleased to announce that the Impact Factor for Mobilities increased to 2.043. The journal received 143 citations in 2016 to 70 source items published in the journal in 2014 and 2015. The journal now ranks 25/79 in the Geography and 13/33 in the...
Mobile Futures | Design in Practice
Join us for all or part of this 3 day workshop with colleagues from the Centre for Mobilities and Urban Studies at Aalborg University. http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/cemore/event/mobile-futures-design-in-practice-2-4-august-2017/
How to save Europe?
CeMoRe members and visiting researchers from all across the world (Australia, Canada, Poland, UK, USA, Venezuela) tried to answer the question while playing a board game during CeMoRe Reading Group. It may sound abstract, but this is exactly how CeMoRe translated the...
Automation, Labour and Future Mobilities
This reading group is an opportunity for us to explore how mobilities research is responding to pressing questions about robots, automation, and our technological futures. From the new kinds of micro-bodily movements that are created by these technologies, up to the...
Play: ‘isITethical?’
The CeMoRe Reading Group will next meet on Wednesday 14th June, 4-5 pm in Mobilities Lab. It is the last meeting this academic year, so make sure you don’t miss it! Let’s close the books and play a board game! isITethical? is a board game designed to playfully explore...
Mobile Utopia Programme Shaping
The Mobile Utopia Conference Programme is shaping up. We had a terrific day browsing through all the abstracts, putting together a first draft of themed sessions, discovering connections, new ideas, new methodologies and approaches, as well as discussing our own work...
Migrancy Reading Group
TIME: Tuesday, 13 June 2017 1-2.30pm PLACE: B35 County South READING: We will be reading from the book "Go Home? The Politics of Immigration Controversies" which is collaborative volume by Hannah Jones et al. published by Manchester University Press 2017. Please...
CeMoRe walking seminar
My residency exploring the Duddon is part funded by the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University, and as part of my visiting fellowship with them I instigated a walk around an area of the Dunnerdale Fells. Below are a selection of photos from the...
Spatial models and mobilities
Dear All, The Cemore reading group will next meet on Wednesday 24th May, 4-5 pm in Mobilities Lab at CeMoRe. What can mobilities and regional studies learn from each other? Let's sit together and discuss! There are two papers to be discussed. The first was probably...
Infrastructuring: Notes from Russia
I'm still inspired by the presentations and discussions at the Conference on Living Infrastructures: Beyond Global North and Global South, April 27-28, 2017, at Volgograd State University. Andrey Kuznetsov and his colleagues brought together researchers from across...