Serena Pollastri and Adrian Gradinar design time capsules for the Synthopia experiment. What might be in them? How to enable critical reflection and connect the engagement with 'pockets of futures'? How to enable synthesis and awareness of conflicts and frictions...
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Mobilities Issue 12 No. 3 June 2017
With eleven original articles on such diverse topics as security, American airports, music and academia, our June issue of Mobilities is the largest yet. We hope it makes for great summer reading! Security or Insecurity? Representations of the UK Border in Public and...
Data Publics conference: final report
The Data Publics conference ran over three days, from 31st March to 2nd April 2017 at LICA, Lancaster University. It was supported by Cemore, alongside funding and support from a range of other partners, including the Digital Economy Network and the Data...
Mobilities Special Issue on Migration Infrastructures and the Production of Migrant Mobilities
Guest editors Weiqiang Lin, Johan Lindqvist, Biao Xiang and Brenda S.A.Yeoh set out the productive and political nature of infrastructures that affect and inform the way (im)mobilities are created and parsed in migration by looking at East and Southeast Asia migration...
Mobilities 5-year Impact Factor increased to
We are extremely pleased to announce that the Impact Factor for Mobilities increased to 2.043. The journal received 143 citations in 2016 to 70 source items published in the journal in 2014 and 2015. The journal now ranks 25/79 in the Geography and 13/33 in the...
Mobile Futures | Design in Practice
Join us for all or part of this 3 day workshop with colleagues from the Centre for Mobilities and Urban Studies at Aalborg University. http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/cemore/event/mobile-futures-design-in-practice-2-4-august-2017/
How to save Europe?
CeMoRe members and visiting researchers from all across the world (Australia, Canada, Poland, UK, USA, Venezuela) tried to answer the question while playing a board game during CeMoRe Reading Group. It may sound abstract, but this is exactly how CeMoRe translated the...
Automation, Labour and Future Mobilities
This reading group is an opportunity for us to explore how mobilities research is responding to pressing questions about robots, automation, and our technological futures. From the new kinds of micro-bodily movements that are created by these technologies, up to the...
Play: ‘isITethical?’
The CeMoRe Reading Group will next meet on Wednesday 14th June, 4-5 pm in Mobilities Lab. It is the last meeting this academic year, so make sure you don’t miss it! Let’s close the books and play a board game! isITethical? is a board game designed to playfully explore...