The Mobile Utopia Experiment is a creative pre-enactment of a mobile utopia made concrete and personal in Lancaster, a medium-size university town. The pre-enactment envisages how people, objects, ideas, and resources will travel in the near-ish future of 2051. It explores, for example:
- the social life and moral order of traffic as it increasingly incorporates ‘driverless’ mobile pods, dynamic on-demand ride-sharing, a more densely populated vertical dimension, as well as incorporating more walking and cyclin
- social and material practices of mobilities of work, home and leisure
- the im|material im|mobilities of plastic, bacteria, CO2, aerial particulates and data
Pre-enactment is facilitated through a game, its components are activities, lived, and prefigurative enactments of mobile utopias in the here and now. Read more and see examples .
To join The Mobile Utopia Experiment, please contact a.trujillo@lancaster.ac.uk with the subject header ‘Mobile Utopia Experiment’.
Results from The Mobile Utopia Experiment will be exhibited at the Mobile Utopia Conference, 2-5 November 2017.
The Conference is a collaboration between the (T2M), and the , in association with the .
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