Category: Mobilities
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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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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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Jo Blake on the intersection of Storytelling, Myth, and Mobilities
During the online edition of the MobileWorlds Festival, Jo Blake provided us with a wonderful performance of a story, specially selected, revised, and introduced for the purposes of this festival, connecting storytelling, myth, and mobilities. We were able to record her performance, and the recording is now available on our…
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Thinking Otherwise through “Third Cultures” – Podcast Episode linking MobileWorlds to Planetary Planning
This week a new episode was published on the Planetary Planning Podcast featuring especially the MobileWorlds project. The episode explicitly connects the subjects at the core of MobileWorlds with those of the Planetary Planning Podcast – namely the overlaps in relation to “thinking otherwise” and exploring what the concept of…
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The MobileWorlds Booklet – launched!
It is with great pleasure that I launch the MobileWorlds Booklet digitally (found in this post and in the MobileWorlds digital Library), now that it has been shared with Festival-goers in person already. It includes a variety of little insights, activities, external contributions, profiles, and the beautiful photos of the…
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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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Join the MobileWorlds Special Sessions at RGS!
The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference began yesterday with a beautiful call to more creativity and storytelling in academia, and for de-centering the “Global North”. In the meantime I had the privilege to join a session on Walking methods (and Zines) – if you have a chance to…
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The Future Design of Streets Conference
The Conference The Future Design of Streets in Guimarães last week provided a wonderful stage for finding allies and deepening willpower to create better streets and more human-centred (rather than tech- or car-centred) planning. I was also happy to contribute to a little bit of controversy, by challenging the collection…
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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…