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Workshopping the ‘Drone-topia?’ experiment at the Centre for Mobilities Research (L-R: Duncan Campbell, Carlos Lopez Galviz and Stephanie Sodero)

Welcome! This Mobile Utopia Experiment explores the potential for using drones to transport vital medical cargo, such as blood. Cargo medical drones are already used in Rwanda.

  • Could they be used in the UK?
  • Could they be used to cross Morecambe Bay in times of crisis?

Come Play (Nov 1-2) – All Welcome! I explore this high-tech concept in a low-tech way. As a participants, you will be assigned the role of a Drone Operator in the year 2051. Using drones (paper airplanes),  hospitals (flags) and blood products (candy), we will imagine the opportunities and challenges of transporting vital materials via drone. Could we use drones to transport medical cargo in the context of climate change-related disruption, such as flooding that occurred during Storm Desmond. Using the paper drones, I will devleop an art installation that communicates the tenor of the contributions (e.g. a hurricane swirl; flight path, etc.). The goal is create a compelling, accessible and tactile brainstorm of the potential of cargo medical drones and related considerations from the practical to the political to the emotional.

Key Questions

  • What are potential Utopian applications of drone technology?
  • Can the transfer of technology from military to civilian and commercial uses yield benefits in line with Utopian ideals?
  • What considerations and complications are entailed?
  • What is gained and lost in such innovations?
  • What feelings and perceptions accompany such imaginaries?

 

The Drone-topia? Experiment

 

The Drone-topia Experiment is COMPLETE. 

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Project Outcomes

Drone-topia? A mobile utopia experiment: Photo Essay and Survey Results

Blood drone-topia? Tweets from 2051. Blog Post

 

Image Credits: Google Maps

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