The Mobile Utopia Experiment

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Published by Harriet Phipps

Sunday, October 1st, 2017

The Mobile Utopia Experiment will be in Lancaster on the 1st of November and on campus on the 1st and 2nd of November.

When and Where:

  • 1st November 12:15 – 5:00 pm Town Library, Market Sq., Lancaster City Centre and Lancaster University Campus
  • 2nd November 09:00 – 12:00 pm Lancaster University Lancaster Conference Centre and Infolab (LCC, South West Campus, and INF South Campus, see map here

Activities include:

  • A video quest of how to travel with a ‘marshrutka’ with Andrey Kuznetsov from Volgograd State University, Russia. MU01 The Marshrutka Video Quest
  • A creative workshop exploring the business potential of nano-medicine MU02 MSNanoX
  • A game of isITethical? Exploring the ethics of data sharing MU03 isITethical? >Play
  • A dance workshop designed to play with how traffic is organised  MU04 Dance your Vehicle: Become Sensicle
  • A ballon launch that plays with ideas of alternative ways of travelling and organising our economy MU05 The Drift Economy
  • A workshop and exhibition that asks what could we do with all that space that cars occupy? MU06 Parking in Utopia
  • A workshop that explores how drones might be used for the transport of vital resources, such as blood transfusions MU07 Drone-topia?
  • A creative walking workshop designed to get you pleasantly lost MU08 Datadrift
  • An exhibition of how we might practically ‘design’ better futures MU09 Designing Mobile Futures
  • An opportunity to engage with people elsewhere, exploring the joys and limits of telepresence collaboration MU10 NowHere
  • How does your SatNav know when you’ll get there? A game that plays with automation, navigation, and the sociality of time. MU11 Autopoiesioning: The ETA game
  • What might a utopian mobile society look like? Synthesise your ideas into a big picture MU12 Synthopia
  • Town Library, Market Sq., Lancaster City Centre.
  • Lancaster University,  Info Lab TBC – (INF on map).

Find out more here:

The Mobile Utopia Experiment 1-2 November 2017

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