Mobilities special issue: Mobility and the Humanities by Pete Merriman and Lynne Pearce
Showcasing new and emerging work on mobilities by arts and humanities scholars this special issue, brought together by Pete Merriman and Lynne Pearce, examines some of the different texts, methods and theoretical frames through which authors approach movement and...
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...