Category: Workshop
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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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The MobileWorlds Toolbox launched

We are finally able to share the MobileWorlds Toolbox! This is a big milestone for the project, and means that you – wherever you are – can use the steps, tips and tricks we’ve designed for the Workshops, Mobile Interviews, Festival and Spatial Analysis (coming soon) to inspire your own…
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Children’s home-school mobility in Portugal

Children between 3 and 12 years of age in Portugal tend to be taken to school by their parents in private cars. Catarina Cadima, António Ferreira and I researched reasons for this, with the hypothesis in mind that perhaps parents’ fear of traffic, especially the fast growing use of electric…
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Polycrisis Challenging the Sociological Imagination: inspiring moments from the ISUP summer school in June 2024

In June, Mobile Worlds took part in the ISUP Summer school at the Sociology Department of the University of Porto, in Portugal. The title was “Polycrisis Challenging the Sociological Imagination“. It was both a super inspiring and perhaps somewhat devastating summer school, highlighting so many aspects of the Polycrisis, but…
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Mobile Worlds in Pontevedra: the 10th International Degrowth Conference and more

This past spring Mobile Worlds went to Pontevedra, to the 10th International Degrowth Conference, as was also described in this post. There, Kim gave a presentation and held a workshop – in this post we share a little bit about both of these. The presentation: Thinking otherwise The presentation was…
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Family workshop Porto/Matosinhos, 15 June 2024

The family workshop in Matosinhos (Greater Porto) this past June really showed the potential of this format for engaging families on planning and mobility topics. We learned so much about process and content that this post will only be able to scratch the surface. Still, we want to share a…
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Explorations in Pontevedra and the 10th International Degrowth Conference

This week, I’m in Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain, for the 10th International Degrowth conference, at which I’ll be hosting a workshop and giving a presentation. The start has been inspiring, and the location really beautiful and full of mobility quirks. I take this opportunity to just share a little photo gallery…
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Pilot Workshop in Porto

On 24 April 2024, the Mobile Worlds Pilot Workshop was conducted in Porto, at the Centre for Territory, Transports and Environment (CITTA) of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto. There were 14 participants – 7 women and 7 men – of very varied ages, some students, some…
