Category: HVL
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MobileWorlds Community Engagement

As we wrap up the MobileWorlds project, we want to highlight the ways in which we have reached out to participants of various groups and contexts, and thank them again – anonymously – for all their input! We could not have done any of this work without you, as participants…
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The MobileWorlds Survey – Overview & Quant results

The MobileWorlds Survey was carried out between 10 June 2024 and 2 March 2025 to collect international experiences with (third) cultures, and the relationship people see between such cultures and mobility/transport. The survey included two key parts, one focused on cultural backgrounds and combinations, and the other on mobility-transport options.…
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MobileWorlds Toolbox: Spatial Analysis Toolkit & pdf published

This is the last official week of the MobileWorlds project, and we’ve been making some substantial steps for sharing some more results. This includes the now finalised Toolbox, with the Spatial Analysis Toolkit included and a specially designed pdf version. You can find the digital Spatial Analysis Toolkit here. And…
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The MobileWorlds Festival – taking third cultures “out of the box”

The MobileWorlds Festival took place in September and October 2025, in Bergen (Norway), Online, and in Porto (Portugal). The festival brought together planning practice, arts, research, and a broad public of all ages, bringing the ideas of third cultures “out into the world”. With this post we are happy to…
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The MobileWorlds Festival: Bergen Edition one week away!

The Bergen edition of the MobileWorlds Festival is already only a week away! We are so excited to begin this series of events to explore, play with, and share diverse ideas about how to define and shift cultures of mobilities today and in future. If you haven’t done so yet,…
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RSA Conference & presentation about “reconciling unity and diversity”

In early May 2025 I had the pleasure to participate at the Regional Studies Association’s Annual Conference, this year in Porto, Portugal. The conference overall seemed rather conservative and technique / technology oriented, yet some more fundamental questions could also be found. Without being able here to share an exhaustive…
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Feature #8: “Den Heilige Kua”, and its author, Roseane dos Reis

Roseane dos Reis is an actress, artist, critical thinker, mother, Brazilian resident in Norway, who has created the theatre performance “Den Heilige Kua – Om å føde ein nordmann” (The Holy Cow – About giving birth to a Norwegian), with its debut on 8 March 2024 (see the poster of…
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International Mobile Worlds Survey now open!

Dear readers, dear Mobile Worlds community, It is with great pleasure that we invite you to take part in a survey on cultures and mobility practices. Click here to participate, or use the QR-code below. The survey is available in English and seven other languages. Your responses are crucial…
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Culture & Mobility: a second (mini) workshop on cultural diversity and its mobility consequences

The second Mobile Worlds workshop was held on 4 April 2024 as a “mini” version, of a little less than one hour, at HVL. The workshop explored culture as the set of norms and values guiding – often almost imperceptibly – a given group’s thoughts and actions. It was fun…
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Seminar on (Transition) Experiments, Innovation, and ‘Thinking Otherwise’

Today I had the pleasure of sharing some insights based on previous work on innovation, experiments and learning, and linking this to my more recently begun work on thinking otherwise. The seminar was held as part of a series of “Out-of-the-Box” seminars organised by Nora Geirsdotter Bækkelund at the “Section…
