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.
The first pilot workshop of the project took place on 7 March 2024, at the Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, at Ø-Bygg, HVL, in Bergen, Norway. It included participation of academic colleagues and their families and friends, and had a relatively small format. It included a lot of creative work and intergenerational group […]
What mode of transport do you prioritize, and why? How far do you think is too far to walk? From what age should a child be able to travel from home to school on their own? This workshop takes a hands-on, creative approach to explore mobility practices through the lens of culture – based on […]
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 […]
As part of a course at HVL in Bergen, we held a Mobile Worlds workshop with planners, to explore their third cultures, and the implications that thinking in terms of […]
The mobil.TUM conference 2024: The Future of Mobility and Urban Space will take place from 10-12 April in Munich, Germany. I will be presenting on the first day of the […]
The second pilot workshop of the project will take place on 24 April 2024, at the Research Centre for Transports, Territory and Environment of the University of Porto, in Porto, […]
*free* *by direct invitation only* What is your favourite mode of transport, and why? How would you like to travel to school or work if you could choose? This workshop […]
On 20 June, we’ll be doing a Mobile Worlds workshop at the 10th International Degrowth Conference in Pontevedra, Spain. We invite all conference participants to join us! It will be […]
On 21 June I’ll be presenting on the idea of “Thinking Otherwise” in academia and beyond, during a session called “Challenging dominant values, ideologies, and imaginaries” of the 10th International […]
Join us on Friday for the Mobile Worlds Workshop at RGS! The formal title is: “Hands-On Co-Creative Workshop: Engaging Art, Culture and Debate to Re-imagine and Re-shape Mobility Practices”. It […]
*free* *registration required* What mode of transport do you prioritize, and why? How far do you think is too far to walk? How do you wish this could be different […]
The Mobile Worlds Workshop for Planners is similar to the all-ages workshop, but the discussion part focuses a little more on immediate and possible long-term take-aways for the planners’ work. […]
*free* *registration required* What mode of transport do you prioritize, and why? How far do you think is too far to walk? How do you wish this could be different […]
*free* *registration required* How do you make your daily trip to school or work? What mode of transport is your favourite, and why? How do you wish this could be […]
This year at the Royal Geographical Society’s annual conference, MobileWorlds organized a double special session entitled “Third Cultures of Mobility: Exploring and stimulating alternative mobility futures and research methodologies”. The […]
The Online edition of the MobileWorlds Festival was held on 10 and 11 October 2025 (Friday 10.00-17.00 CET and Saturday 10.30-16.00 CET). The Saturday program included a walking workshop and […]