Unpacking urban AI's genealogy, dynamics, and implications will be a programmatic responsibility for urban studies.  This will take time, and the need for cautious, rigorous analysis will help avoid the trap of too quickly embracing utopian imaginaries or dystopian...

The Special Issue, now available, is co-edited by CeMoRe’s Lynne Pearce and Nicola Spurling, and contains a collection of papers from a 2022 international conference held at Lancaster.

Visiting Researcher post: Elisa Mozzelin came to Cemore in June 2024, to work on her doctoral research in Political Philosophy focusing on walking.

Visiting Researcher post: Aleksandra Ianchenko, including Summer Webinar recording ‘Walking and Drawing as a Method for Urban Hauntings’

Video published: In October 2023 we were delighted to host Professor Tim Edensor’s keynote lecture titled ‘Sensory and Affective Engagements with Stone’ which set the agenda for our discussions of rocky futures at T2M.

CeMoRe’s 2023 Winter Webinar was co-hosted with Desert Disorders, with support from the British Academy. The webinar titled Poetry and Public Diplomacy: The Case of Western Sahara was jointly presented by Joanna Allan and Moiti Mohammed Azrouk, and chaired by...