{"id":8541,"date":"2022-08-05T12:09:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T11:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/?post_type=project&p=8541"},"modified":"2022-08-05T12:09:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T11:09:39","slug":"mobile-utopia","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/project\/mobile-utopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Utopia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mobile Utopia brings together communities, entrepreneurs, industry and researchers from a range of different disciplines to explore how \u2018mobilising\u2019 utopia as a method for critical innovation can provide important insights into intergenerational, multi-scalar, human and non-human interconnectivities across transport, traffic and mobilities. The activities include The<\/em> Mobile Utopia Experiment<\/em>, where we experiment with particular mobile utopia and ways of undertaking integrative analysis and making.<\/h3>\n

More information about the Conference at the Conference Website<\/a>.<\/h3>\n

To join The Mobile Utopia Experiment, please contact p.drinkall@lancaster.ac.uk<\/a> with the subject header ‘Mobile Utopia Experiment’.<\/h3>\n

Mobile Utopia\u00a0is jointly organised by Cemore, the\u00a0International Association for Transport, Traffic and Mobility<\/a>\u00a0(T2M), and the\u00a0Cosmobilities network<\/a>, in association with\u00a0the\u00a0Institute for Social Futures<\/a>.<\/h3>\n

From Thomas More\u2019s\u00a0Utopia\u00a0<\/em>(1516) to Ruth Levitas\u2019\u00a0Utopia as method\u00a0<\/em>(2013) and John Urry\u2019s\u00a0What is the future?\u00a0<\/em>(2016), utopia has been a powerful means to explore how societies have shaped, and have been shaped by, complex im|mobilities, from microbial to big data mobilities, from horse-drawn carriages to driverless cars, from migration to planetary jet streams. Faced with the global uncertainties of the Anthropocene, utopia provides renewed analytical and creative purchase.<\/p>\n

It is a research theme for a growing group of people at ¶¶ÒõAPPµ¼º½ and beyond. There are a range of different activities, including (working backwards):<\/p>\n

2-5 November 2017 Mobile Utopia: Pasts, Presents, Futures Conference<\/a>, Centre for Mobilities Research, ¶¶ÒõAPPµ¼º½<\/p>\n

1-2 November 2017 The Mobile Utopia Experiment, Centre for Mobilities Research, ¶¶ÒõAPPµ¼º½<\/p>\n

29 October \u2013 5 November Mobile Utopia Bonfire School, Centre for Mobilities Research, ¶¶ÒõAPPµ¼º½<\/p>\n

The work started with the Mobile Utopia 1851-2051<\/a> project, a short AHRC-funded research co-creation project that sought to develop a deeper understanding of mobile utopias (and dystopias), and to creatively analyse and explore these. Critically, \u2018mobile utopias\u2019 are not transport utopias. Communicative, imaginative, embodied and disembodied, utopian and dystopian mobilities of information, people, goods, ideas as well as practices of immobilising, obstructions, borders, stasis, slowness intersect in the making of pasts, presents, futures. Activities include:<\/p>\n

Mobile Utopia at the J Edmond Safra Fountain Court at Somerset House<\/a>, London
24-26 June 2016<\/p>\n

Mobile Utopia at the Cemore Away Day<\/a>
2 June 2016, Ellel Village Hall<\/p>\n

Mobile Utopia @Lancaster Campus in The City<\/a>
18th May 2016<\/p>\n

Nicola Spurling at the <\/a>Centre for Mobilities Research Showcase<\/a>
20th April 2016 <\/a><\/p>\n

Mobile Utopias Research Co-Creation Workshop<\/a>
19th April 2016, 11:00 \u2013 16:00, Design Studio, ¶¶ÒõAPPµ¼º½<\/p>\n

Mobilizing the Urban Model:  <\/a>A Workshop on Spatial Analysis and Mobile Utopias of Consumption<\/a>, 18th April 2016, 09:30-15:00, ¶¶ÒõAPPµ¼º½, Bowland North, SR 07<\/p>\n

The project Mobile Utopia 1851-2051 developed through collaboration with different communities in Lancaster and Birmingham. It will take part in celebrations around the 500th Anniversary of the publication of Thomas More\u2019s Utopia. The interdisciplinary group of researchers led by Nick Dunn<\/a>, Professor of Urban Design, includes Monika B\u00fcscher<\/a>, Lynne Pearce<\/a>, Nicola Spurling<\/a>, and Carlos L\u00f3pez Galviz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Critically, the project took \u2018mobile utopias\u2019 not as blueprint transport utopias, but started to ‘mobilise’ utopia as method. Communicative, imaginative, embodied and disembodied, utopian and dystopian mobilities of information, people, goods, ideas as well as practices of immobilising, obstructions, borders, stasis, slowness intersect in the making of pasts, presents, futures. Here are some examples from our growing collection of utopian everyday objects and stories.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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