Categoria: Conferencias
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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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Join the MobileWorlds Special Sessions at RGS!
The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference began yesterday with a beautiful call to more creativity and storytelling in academia, and for de-centering the “Global North”. In the meantime I had the privilege to join a session on Walking methods (and Zines) – if you have a chance to…
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The Future Design of Streets Conference
The Conference The Future Design of Streets in Guimarães last week provided a wonderful stage for finding allies and deepening willpower to create better streets and more human-centred (rather than tech- or car-centred) planning. I was also happy to contribute to a little bit of controversy, by challenging the collection…
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RSA Conference & presentation about “reconciling unity and diversity”
In early May 2025 I had the pleasure to participate at the Regional Studies Association’s Annual Conference, this year in Porto, Portugal. The conference overall seemed rather conservative and technique / technology oriented, yet some more fundamental questions could also be found. Without being able here to share an exhaustive…
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Call for Abstracts: Third Cultures of Mobility (RGS25 Online)
To better connect our network and spread the debate around “third” or alternative Cultures of Mobility, we have decided to propose an online special session at RGS-IBG 2025. Please see the Call for Abstracts below and join us! The deadline for abstracts is 10 February 2025. Call for Abstracts…
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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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Mobile Worlds in Pontevedra: the 10th International Degrowth Conference and more
This past spring Mobile Worlds went to Pontevedra, to the 10th International Degrowth Conference, as was also described in this post. There, Kim gave a presentation and held a workshop – in this post we share a little bit about both of these. The presentation: Thinking otherwise The presentation was…
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Explorations in Pontevedra and the 10th International Degrowth Conference
This week, I’m in Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain, for the 10th International Degrowth conference, at which I’ll be hosting a workshop and giving a presentation. The start has been inspiring, and the location really beautiful and full of mobility quirks. I take this opportunity to just share a little photo gallery…
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Explorando a transdisciplinaridade na IRS Spring Academy
From 13-16 May Kim explored transdisciplinarity from different perspectives – between diverse academic disciplines and between academia and practice – with a wonderful group of researchers organising and participating in the IRS Spring Academy. The Academy took place in various locations: in the centre of Berlin (Germany), as…
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Revolutionising Mobility at the Mobil.TUM Conference
Between 10 and 12 April I was at the Mobil.TUM conference in Munich, Germany. It was a packed conference, with four very inspiring key-note speeches, two days of innumerable presentations by peers, and a final third day of interactive workshops and a choice of a walking or cycling tour of…