Kategori: Porto
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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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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 Booklet – launched!
It is with great pleasure that I launch the MobileWorlds Booklet digitally (found in this post and in the MobileWorlds digital Library), now that it has been shared with Festival-goers in person already. It includes a variety of little insights, activities, external contributions, profiles, and the beautiful photos of the…
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Barnas hjemme-skole-mobilitet i 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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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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International Mobile Worlds Survey er nå åpen!
Dear readers, dear Mobile Worlds community, It is with great pleasure that we invite you to take part in a survey on cultures and mobility practices. Click here to participate, or use the QR-code below. The survey is available in English and seven other languages. Your responses are crucial…
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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…
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Happy International Women’s Day!
Today is International Women’s Day, a day that celebrates a struggle women have gone through and fought for many decades (or centuries perhaps) to ensure that women would have equity in terms of the freedoms granted to them and the men in their society. It has been a fight –…
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Prosjektet Minante
[Featured photo by Ana Clara Roberti] On 3 February 2024, the Minante project officially wrapped up its activities with a beautiful closing event. The project sought to engage various local publics to engage with the heritage, space and environment of the “Minante”, and I will humbly claim that it succeeded.…