UKRI South Korea Connections Grant 2022-23 Project Title “Connecting Mobilities Research between the UK and South Korea: Narrating, Mobilising, Experimenting and Engaging Mobilities for a Just Future.” In February 2022, three members of CeMoRe - Lynne...
Freeports are a flagship initiative to “level-up” (primarily) coastal regions after Brexit and Covid-19. Freeports are designated areas for import, processing, and re-export of goods. Freeport businesses enjoy lighter taxes, tariffs, and paperwork. In parallel to...
This project aims to create a new network of academics and practitioners concerned with the futures of academic book publishing, by bringing together those working in both academic-led subject-specific Open Access presses and the new wave of university presses....
GREAT (Gridding Equitable Futures in Areas of Transition) is a three-year research project aimed at generating real change in two informal off-grid settlements located in Cali (Colombia) and Havana (Cuba). GREAT’s research is conducted through a partnership between...
Disruption is a 3-year project taking a fresh new look at people’s mobility, including their travel and use of computers, mobile phones etc. The aim of the project is create opportunities for change that will reduce the energy use and associated greenhouse gas...
The overall objective of SecInCoRe (Secure Dynamic Cloud for Information, Communication and Resource Interoperability based on Pan-European Disaster Inventory) is to identify data sets, processes, information systems and business models used by first responders and...
BRIDGE: Bridging resources and agencies in large-scale emergency management is a collaborative project co-funded by the EU Seventh Framework Programme. BRIDGE will build a system to support interoperability – both technical and social – in large-scale...
Mobile Utopia brings together communities, entrepreneurs, industry and researchers from a range of different disciplines to explore how ‘mobilising’ utopia as a method for critical innovation can provide important insights into intergenerational, multi-scalar,...
by Stephanie Sodero How do we, and how can we in future, get vital materials, such as blood and water, to those in need? As a social scientist and a CeMoRe postdoctoral researcher, I am interested in crisis mobilities broadly and the transport of vital goods...
In a century of disasters (eScience 2012), deeper understanding of the relationship between disaster, mobilities, resilience and development is needed for improved policy and practice scenarios. This research focus brings together wide ranging interests in disaster...
The Mobile Utopia Experiment is a creative pre-enactment of a mobile utopia made concrete and personal in Lancaster, a medium-size university town. The pre-enactment envisages how people, objects, ideas, and resources will travel in the near-ish future of 2051. It...
The Migrancy Research Group is a research grouping of staff and postgraduates working in the area of immigration, borders, citizenship, migrant workers, refugees and asylum seekers, statelessness and the theoretical, political and social movements which cluster around...
The year is 2050 and the performance lifestyle company Nano NeuroChem has found a way to travel back in time to 1 November 2017. On that day Nano NeuroChem changed the world with a breakthrough nano-medicine technology. The consequences of decisions taken on...
isITethical? invites you to play with ethical values of information sharing. Information sharing for (big) data analysis is growing across many domains. From disaster risk management to medical diagnosis, from transport to supermarket logistics, from...
A group of travel guides from Lancaster have arrived in Volgograd just as the city is starting to prepare for 700,000 extra visitors during the 2018 Football World Cup. With Lancaster one of the top UK Utopia football teams, their question is: How would visitors use...
... dance your Vehicle! Taking inspiration from Lancaster's experience of a gentler traffic order during the floods in December 2015, captured in the image above, the Becoming Sensicle experiment invites you to play with how we relate to each other and move...
This mobile utopia experiment will explore ideas for a radically different system of moving objects, people, information and points of view. Most mobile things on the planet move not by carrying on-board power and using it to apply force to propel themselves;...
What might parking space become in a world without cars? How much space do parked cars take up in Lancaster? What was this space used for in the past? How might it be used differently in the future? Parking lots, multi-storeys, garages, driveways and...