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What’s mobile: Past Futures | 1851 to 2051

What’s mobile: Past Futures | 1851 to 2051

Carlos López Galviz, Lecturer in The Theory and Methods of Social Futures, tells us how past futures connect with mobility and place.     I am interested in the relationship between the past and the future, particularly in the context of cities. One way of...

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What’s mobile: Data Prototyping and Visualisation

What’s mobile: Data Prototyping and Visualisation

Dan Richards, Lecturer in Data Prototyping and Visualisation, at Imagination Lancaster, talks about emerging design practices which require increased disciplinary and informational mobility.     This research explores new interdisciplinary design practices...

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Exploring mobile consumption with spatial analysis

Exploring mobile consumption with spatial analysis

The aim of the workshop 'Mobilizing the Urban Model: A Workshop on Spatial Analysis and Mobile Utopias of Consumption' was to explore mobilities of urban consumption through a mixed methods approach, combining the emerging and fast-developing method of spatial...

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What’s Mobile: Moving through Cave Space

What’s Mobile: Moving through Cave Space

Frank Pearson, PhD student at Lancaster University, presents his research on the mobilities of caving.     Caving has its origins in mining and cave and karst science. It has been synonymous with the term speleology: the exploration and study of limestone...

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11 May 2016 Mobilities Reading

11 May 2016 Mobilities Reading

'From Terror to Grace' Chapter 1 from Ruth Levitas Utopia as Method: The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society 4-5PM, Bowland North B37 (Mobilities Lab). The second reading of our Utopia-themed mobilities meetings. Everyone is invited to attend and join in the...

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Historical Mobilities in Australia and New Zealand

Historical Mobilities in Australia and New Zealand

Work that has been engaging with mobilities research in the Humanities includes a new book by Professor Cathy Coleborne, Insanity, Identity and Empire. Her book engages with issues of the mobility of people across the British Empire to Australia and New Zealand in the...

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Creating A Mobile Utopia

Creating A Mobile Utopia

Last week, CeMoRe co-organised the workshop Mobile Utopia. One day of intense play to imagine and develop utopias of everyday life for 2051. Georgia Newmarch reports.   Object-based thinking encourages an exploration of how we place importance on aspects of our...

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