The Mobile Utopia Experiment is a creative enactment of a mobile utopia made concrete and personal in Lancaster, a medium-size university town. The enactment envisages how people, objects, ideas, resources will travel in a near-ish future of 2051.
When and Where:
- 1st November 12:15 – 5:00 pm , Market Sq., Lancaster City Centre
- 2nd November 09:00 – 12:00 pm ¶¶ÒõAPPµ¼º½ Lancaster Conference Centre and Infolab (LCC, South West Campus, and INF South Campus, see map here)
Enactment is facilitated through a game, its components are activities, lived, prefigurative enactments of mobile utopias in the here and now. The Mobile Utopia Experiment explores different ‘pockets’ of futures. Read more .
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 transport, work, home and leisure
- the im|material im|mobilities of air currents, nano technologies and data
