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.
*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 takes a hands-on, creative approach to explore mobility practices through the lens of culture – based on a set of norms and values that we […]
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 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. The workshop takes a hands-on, creative approach to explore mobility practices through the lens of culture – based on a set of norms and values […]
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 the abstract here and the details of the session in which I will present, here.
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 planning, degrowth, and anti-colonial change are key “places” where this can and must be done. This will also have implications for how mobilities are practiced […]
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 sessions also included a presentation by Kim, entitled “Mobilities in Times of Crisis: Seeking Third Cultures of Mobility Through Creative Participatory Methods”, and a presentation […]
The Porto edition of the MobileWorlds Festival took place on 24 and 25 October 2025 (Friday afternoon 14.30-19.00 and Saturday morning to afternoon 11-15.30), at Maus Hábitos, Porto. More information […]
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 […]