by Harriet Phipps | Apr 11, 2016 | Projects
Bruce Bennett, Senior Lecturer at LICA, is doing research on a very convivial tandem: bicycles and cinema. He tells our readers why the bicycle was the perfect subject for the first film, in 1895. I am currently studying the history of cycling on screen, and in...
by Harriet Phipps | Apr 6, 2016 | Experiments, Mobilities - General, Projects
Cosmin Popan, doctoral candidate in Sociology, tells us what’s mobile about researching bicycles and alternative mobility systems. My PhD thesis investigates the possibilities for everyday urban cycling to become a socio-technical system...
by Harriet Phipps | Apr 1, 2016 | Mobilities - General
Traditionally, a woman’s place was never on stormy seas. But actually thousands of dancers, purserettes, doctors, stewardesses, captains and conductresses have taken to the waveson everything from floating palaces to battered windjammers. Their daring story is barely...
by Harriet Phipps | Mar 29, 2016 | Projects
On Sunday 13th March, the ESRC project ‘Low Carbon Innovation in China: Prospects, Politics and Practice’ held the closing workshop of its research package on urban e-mobilities at the Shenzhen Graduate School of Tsinghua University, hosted by CeMoRe’s project...
by Harriet Phipps | Mar 29, 2016 | Mobilities - General
“Future Perfect: Retheorising Utopia”, Ch. 8 from Ruth Levitas’ The Concept of Utopia, 4-5PM, Bowland North B37 (Mobilities Lab). The second reading of our Utopia-themed mobilities meetings. Thanks to Richard Tutton for the suggestion! Everyone is...
