Categoria: Thinking Otherwise
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Article published: Questioning Streets – On plural origins, plural uses, and plural futures
Image by Ana Clara Nunes Roberti, copyrighted. The article Questioning Streets: On plural origins, plural uses, and plural futures, was recently published in the journal Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives. This article offers creative insights on historical and current uses of streets, as well as what could be impactful imaginaries for…
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Feature #8: “Den Heilige Kua”, and its author, Roseane dos Reis
Roseane dos Reis is an actress, artist, critical thinker, mother, Brazilian resident in Norway, who has created the theatre performance “Den Heilige Kua – Om å føde ein nordmann” (The Holy Cow – About giving birth to a Norwegian), with its debut on 8 March 2024 (see the poster of…
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Third Cultures versus Third Culture Kids
In December, the MigrantKnowledge blog hosted a post I wrote about Third Cultures and how they are important similarities as well as differences between the experiences of Third Culture Kids (TCKs), often relatively privileged migrants’ children with the explicit expectation to locate “back” to an origin country after a specific…
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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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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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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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O Survey Internacional do Mobile Worlds já está aberto!
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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"Spirit Bird", "Becoming Spring", e um debate sobre Academia e Mudança
This week has been another full one for Mobile Worlds. On Monday, the latest Planetary Planning episode was published, this time an interview with Finnish Winter, entitled “Becoming Spring” – check it out here! On the same day, we held the latest Planning Dialogues Webinar, on Academia and Change –…
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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…