The mobilities lab supports the development of mobile, creative and inventive research methods, through workshops, projects, seminars and our equipment loan facility. We publish our experiments with mobile methods on this website, as we grapple with how to research the often fleeting, messy, ephemeral, temporal, sensory, static, stuck, interrupted and ongoing nature of mobilities.
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The Internet of Public Safety Things: Use Cases
The isITethical team are bringing creative ethical impact into innovation and the Internet of Public Safety Things. The Internet of Public Safety Things: Use Cases Workshop will take place on 4th December 2018. From the workshop description: The workshop aims to...
isITethical? Residencies
IsITethical has been funded to develop a responsible research and innovation support service for innovation in disaster risk management. Between February and July 2018, we will undertake a series of 'residencies' with practitioners in disaster risk management and...
Learning to Use Better the Senses We Have
Developing new transport technologies and working better with the senses we already have as humans - Combining the two approaches was considered key to improving how we move in urban transport situations, by the participants of the Dance Your Vehicle: Becoming...
Moving in a system – and sensing in a box
What happens when you bring together human bodily intelligence and traffic rules in new ways? This became our leading question for the first ‘Becoming Sensicle’ experiment day at Lancaster University on September 28. During the six-hour workshop, we explored how we...
Drift Economy- Mobile Utopia Experiment Lab II
(Written by Sasha Engelmann) I find myself on a train back to London after an exciting day prototyping, developing and honing Mobile Utopia Experiments. Bronislaw Szerszynski, Adam Fish and I have developed an experiment called the Drift Economy, and today was a...
Be a Robot for Breakfast
Have breakfast with researchers at RMIT and be a telepresence robot in Melbourne! You can just turn up (in the Sociology Kitchen, Bowland North B14 and/or at the links below) 14th September 8am-10am If you have time to register: Help us plan by registering here As...
Dreaming new mobilities and societies
A first ‘Becoming Sensicle’ workshop took place spontaneously as part of TransformART this August. How we move in urban spaces was one of the key topics of TransformART, a week-long event dedicated to exploring the arts as a driving force for social, political and...
Mobile Futures Design Workshop: Disaster, Flooding, Disruption
How do we move vital goods in times of crisis? How do medical and rescue organizations move blood when and where needed? For three days this summer design students and staff from Aalborg University and Lancaster-based community partners – NHS Blood and Transplant,...
Workshop Becoming ‘Sensicle’, September 27
Imagine a future… where vehicles and sensing human bodies have become ‘sensicles’? Join us for a free and co-creative workshop on futurist mobilities on September 27 @ 10am - 4pm.