In this reading group we discussed a draft piece of Tauri Tuvikene’s paper: “Body-drivers” in traffic: Walking the Streets of Automobile City in Tallinn, Estonia. Tauri, present at the reading group, explained his paper’s current ideas and where he ultimately would...
EXPERIMENTS
Flying Phones, Driverless Cars, KCE Conference 2017
Lancaster’s Bronislaw Szerszynski recently attended Knowledge/ Culture/ Ecology 2017 (KCE) in Santiago, Chile, 15-18th November. The conference’s key aims were to explore current transformations in socioecologies and to generate knowledge practises capable of...
The Beginnings of Airport City Futures (AirCiF)
Last week Cemore met with Lancaster’s James Faulconbridge to discuss his role in the new research project, AirCiF (Airport City Futures). Although still in the stages of development, the project’s design plans are underway, the team’s initial reflections that emerged...
‘Mobility and the Humanities- 29th Nov discussion
Pete Merriman and Lynne Pearce, ‘Mobility and the Humanities’ Mobilities, 12 (4) 2017 Merriman and Pearce took ‘Mobility and the Humanities’ as an opportunity for ‘highlighting the “genre-defying” approaches of many leading mobility scholars whose work transcends any...
Mobilities Journal’s Top Cited Articles for Current Impact Factor
Image source: John Tornow 'Globe' Mobilities is proud to announce the most highly cited articles for current impact factor. These articles are testament to the original, theoretically-informed, international research that Mobilities seeks to address. Their popularity...
Welcoming our 2017-2018 Visiting Fellows
Cemore has an established tradition of offering fellowships to scholars external to the university and we are delighted to be able to formally announce the arrival of our most recent fellows for 2017-2018. We welcome them all to Lancaster and hope that they find their...
Mobile Utopia Conference: Storify
Mobile Utopia Conference Storify Our Social Media Storify represents just one strand of the outcomes and reflections we are currently gathering from the Mobile Utopia conference held between 2nd- 5th Nov 2017 at Lancaster University. Follow the Mobile Utopia...
Blood drone-topia?
by Stephanie Sodero ... What might the movement of blood look like in the future? More specifically how might blood transfusion and drone technology -- both war dividends -- intersect (Sandvik & Lohne 2014)? Here I explore four scenarios based on fieldwork,...
Mobile Utopia Exhibition
This exhibition of 13 international artists, curated by Jen Southern, Emma Rose and Linda O Keeffe, is part of the conference Mobile Utopia: Pasts, Presents, Futures at the Lancaster House Hotel from 2nd-5th November 2017. The exhibition includes works in a diverse...