Eventos
O calendário abaixo mostra uma visão geral de events and conferences that we have organized or participated in.
The MobileWorlds Workshops have taken place throughout 2024, tanto em Bergen e 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 aqui.
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.
Os 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 aqui 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.
- Este evento já decorreu.
The Future Design of Streets Conference – MobileWorlds will present
Os Future Design of Streets Conference will take place in Guimarães, Portugal in June! MobileWorlds is happy to be included in the programme to present some of our work.
This is the abstract accepted for the Conference:
“Third Cultures” for Sustainable and Just Mobilities: Questioning the Origins, Uses and Futures of Streets
Cultures – be they national, regional, local, or subcultural – have been increasingly mobile over the past decades. Even during the Covid-19 pandemic, cultures continued to mix and merge to exceptional degrees. It is not that cultural diversity is new, historically, yet its intensity and impact on daily lives of people of all ages, societal groups and diverse geographies seems to have increased. At the same time, cultural globalization processes, at least on the surface, also seem to have brought about a certain homogenization of practices and imaginaries. Climate change, war, biodiversity loss, social polarization, pollution, persistent social inequalities, and more such devastating circumstances, have led many to speak of “polycrisis” when describing the state of the world. Mobility sits squarely at the heart of much of what can drive or hinder the polycrisis from unfolding further. What might a closer look at culturally diverse norms and values reveal about potential future practices and imaginaries of sustainable and just mobility? What potentials and pitfalls does it bring with it? This contribution looks at streets as examples of ways that cultural diversity expresses itself spatially and in relation to mobility. Based on a historical and literature review of the origins, uses and imaginaries of streets, as well as three expert interviews, and a search through songs and the music scene, and literary quotes, the contribution identifies seven themes around which streets have been and can be understood. Finally, the concept of “Third Cultures” is proposed as a way to explore thinking otherwise towards avenues for creative, locally meaningful possibilities by which streets can contribute to locally relevant, just, and sustainable mobility practices.