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Mobilities & Design Workshop, 29-30 April, CeMoRe Lancaster
will be held in A29 LICA Building
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Videos of presentations – please scroll inside the window for all speakers/discussions.
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and in Lancaster (register @
http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/events/mobilities-and-design/registration.htm
Design is about orchestrating mobilities, and 'mobilising' is a core skill for designers. The most interesting design approaches and theories today draw on science and technology studies, phenomenology, feminist theory and process philosophy and, more recently, mobilities research to explore ways of ‘staging’ mobilities (Jensen 2014), to acknowledge the ‘worlding’ of design through approaches of ‘design in use’, ‘design after design or ‘thing design’ (Binder et al. 2011), and to develop inventive, collaborative and mobile methods that seek to insert design creatively, accountably and radically carefully into indigenous inventiveness (Suchman 2002, Latour 2008, Simonsen et al. 2010, Sangiorgi 2011, Lury and Wakeford 2012, Owen and Sawchuk 2012). In this workshop we bring a selection of practitioners and scholars from mobilities research and design together to explore the analytical and creative leverage enabled by mobilising design in view of some of the most pressing challenges and opportunities in contemporary urban life.
Speakers include:
Thomas Binder, Danish Design School, Copenhagen, Denmark
Paul Coulton, Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University
Anne Galloway, School of Design, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
Design Culture Lab, New Zealand – Aotearoa (Video talk & Skype Q&A)
Ole B. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Kim Sawchuk, Concordia University, Canada (Video talk & Skype Q&A)
Jesper Simonsen, Roskilde University, Denmark
Discussant: John, Urry, Centre for Mobilties Research, Lancaster University
The event is free. Spaces for participation are limited. Please find more detailed information and please register at
http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/events/mobilities-and-design/
The event is webcast. Please find the webcast link available from 28th April @ http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/events/mobilities-and-design/index.htm Please participate in the discussions via Twitter #designmobs
The most interesting and productive design approaches and theories today draw on science and technology studies, phenomenology, feminist theory and process philosophy and, more recently, mobilities research to explore ways of ‘staging’ mobilities (Jensen 2014), to acknowledge the ‘worlding’ of design through approaches of ‘design in use’, ‘design after design or ‘thing design’ (Binder et al. 2011), and to develop inventive, collaborative and mobile methods that seek to insert design creatively, accountably and radically carefully into the indigenous inventiveness (Suchman 2002, Latour 2008, Simonsen et al. 2010, Sangiorgi 2011, Lury and Wakeford 2012, Owen and Sawchuk 2012, Kimbell 2013). There is a need to respond creatively and circumspectly to the ‘transductions’ that ensue from the ontogenetic joining of designed objects into the flux of everyday life – especially around the technicity of code in urban code/space (Mackenzie 2006, Kitchin and Dodge 2011, Southern 2012). This requires engagement with design publics (Nowotny et al. 2001, Latour & Weibel 2005, Yaneva 2012, Clark 2013) and forms of design that can engender multi-party experimentation, such as speculative, critical design and design noir (Dunne and Raby 2001, Wilkie and Michael 2011, Michael 2012, Galloway 2013, Marres 2013), effects driven design (Hertzum & Simonsen 2011), gameful design (Coulton 2013), and the use of mapping, narrative and interpretation in collaborative urban design (Brook & Dunn 2011). Last, but not least, studies of existing and emergent future practices are critical for anchoring invention in an understanding of everyday life and often part of design (Büscher 2005, Brown 2013, Shove 2012). In this workshop we bring a selection of practitioners and scholars from mobilities research and design together to explore the analytical and creative leverage enabled by mobilising design in view of some of the most pressing challenges and opportunities in contemporary urban life.
