Events
The calendar below shows an overview of events and conferences that we have organized or participated in.
The MobileWorlds Workshops have taken place throughout 2024, in both Bergen and Porto. They are interactive workshops in which we explore how arts, and drawing maps, can help various individuals – children as well as adults – to connect to third cultures within them and surrounding them, and the potential this might have for creating new points for encounter with ‘others’ – other people, other ideas, other practices, concerning sustainable mobility and beyond. We have customized workshops per audience group (e.g. all-ages, families, planners, academics/conference). You can find out how to do your own Workshop here.
The Mobile Worlds workshops take a hands-on, creative approach to explore mobility practices through the lens of culture – based on a set of norms and values that we identify with, for instance based on nationality, region, or subgroup (e.g. environmentalist, academic, skater, etc.). They begin with an introspective, individual part (which can remain private), and then move on to group creations and discussions about various cultures coming together within individuals and between individuals and groups. The workshop uses drawing, collage, plasticine-shaping, and other such methods to stimulate out-of-the-box engagement with the topic. The workshops are adjusted for diverse audiences.
The Festival took place in September and October 2025 in Bergen, Online, and in Porto. The Festival is a platform for bringing together a broad MobileWorlds community, connecting arts and planning perspectives for a broad audience, showing the potential of what the MobileWorlds project has only begun to explore. Details on the Festival specifically are found here and tools for organizing your own MobileWorlds Festival can be found here.
The key events of the MobileWorlds project have now ended. You can find details about the past activities by browsing the past events below.
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Seminar “(Transition) Experiments, Innovation, and ‘Thinking Otherwise’”
Experimentation and innovation are ideas – and buzzwords – that are increasingly capturing attention in both research and planning/policy practice. This has perhaps been going on for a decade or more, but interest seems to grow continuously, perhaps with experimentation gaining more traction, while innovation is receiving slightly more nuanced treatment. These ideas tend to aim for the encouragement of sustainability transitions, or other forms of transformation towards more environmentally and socially just futures. This seminar will zoom in on these two concepts from an explicitly critical perspective, suggesting that, while both concepts can be highly revealing when studied academically, both of them can also have very problematic consequences if applied as policies or planning directives. The seminar then uses this critical perspective to explore the idea of ‘thinking otherwise’, the challenges and potentials this provides, and possible ways forward. Research findings on innovation, experimentation and ‘third cultures’ will be shared, including methodological reflections from the ongoing Mobile Worlds project. See https://mobileworlds.online for more information.
The seminar will be preceded by a Mini-Workshop. Please see Events page for more information and registration.
Please feel free to simply show up to the seminar. If you would like more information, feel free to contact us via mobileworlds@hvl.no