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Kalenderen under viser en oversikt over events and conferences that we have organized or participated in.
The MobileWorlds Workshops have taken place throughout 2024, i begge Bergen og 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 her.
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 her 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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ISEE Degrowth – Kim will speak at roundtable on planning, degrowth, and anti-colonial change
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 and planned in the future, and which mobility cultures are embraced, what this will look like, and who will be making decisions, etc. Some of my previous work has discussed alternative mobility values under part of this lens (e.g. Mobility values article, og Chapter on Clumsy Mobility Solutions in Post-Growth Planning Book) and the work for MobileWorlds is also preoccupied with the greater implications of changing mobility cultures, be it through individual shifts in perspectives, but also through shifts in planning practices, perceptions, imaginaries and cultures. Last but not least, Kim’s experiences crossing Global North and Global South contexts in both work and personal lives provides additional insight for the anti-colonial discussion, which she is personally passionate about.
To further develop and discuss some of these ideas, Kim will be a speaker at a hybrid special session of the combined 18th Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics and 11th International Degrowth Conference. The session is entitled “Radical Planning and the path to Degrowth: Mobilising Urban Planners for an Anti-Colonial Transition” and organized by Karen Waneska de Jesus og Jin Xue (both from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences – NMBU
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