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 […]
This event will be a debate on the extent to which academic work (labelled as “scientific”) should engage more in artistic methodologies, artistic output, artistic engagement of audiences or artistic philosophies, and other alternative approaches, and do these relate to the idea of “scientism”. An important underlying assumption is that artistic methods might be more […]
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, Portugal. It will be open to academic colleagues and their families, and will begin with a relatively small format. As always, it includes a lot […]
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 a workshop mostly intending to spread the concept of third cultures, test a shorter version of our workshop, and explore creative ways of thinking about […]
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 Degrowth Conference, this year in Pontevedra, Spain. We’ll share a bit about how Thinking Otherwise is discussed in two books: “Postcolonial Theory: An Introduction” by […]
The Regional Studies Association will host its 2025 Conference in Porto, Portugal in May! MobileWorlds is thrilled to be included in the programme to present some of our work. See […]
Individual practices are important, but much more systemic change is needed for historically rooted and economically-justified social and environmental injustices and extractions to be truly addressed. The intertwined topics of […]
The Future Design of Streets Conference will take place in Guimarães, Portugal in June! MobileWorlds is happy to be included in the programme to present some of our work. This […]
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 […]
In November 2025, MobileWorlds will give a presentation at the 11th International Congress on Cultures taking place at the University of Porto. The presentation will be made in Portuguese, and […]