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).
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