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 – thank you so much!…
The MobileWorlds Survey – Overview & Quant results
The MobileWorlds Survey was carried out between 10 June 2024 and 2 March 2025 to collect international experiences with (third) cultures, and the relationship people see between such cultures and mobility/transport. The survey included two key parts, one focused on cultural backgrounds and combinations, and the other on mobility-transport options. We are now happy to…
Annotated Bibliography on Third Cultures
Ever wondered what Third Cultures are, or can be, or even should be? I’ve made some forays into different answers to that questions on this website before, but this post is different. We’ve finally published the annotated bibliography on third cultures, which extensively explores different ways this subject has been studied in various fields, in…
MobileWorlds Toolbox: Spatial Analysis Toolkit & pdf published
This is the last official week of the MobileWorlds project, and we’ve been making some substantial steps for sharing some more results. This includes the now finalised Toolbox, with the Spatial Analysis Toolkit included and a specially designed pdf version. You can find the digital Spatial Analysis Toolkit here. And the pdf at the bottom…
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 share below some impressions and…
The MobileWorlds Toolbox launched
We are finally able to share the MobileWorlds Toolbox! This is a big milestone for the project, and means that you – wherever you are – can use the steps, tips and tricks we’ve designed for the Workshops, Mobile Interviews, Festival and Spatial Analysis (coming soon) to inspire your own research and practice! Check out…
Jo Blake on the intersection of Storytelling, Myth, and Mobilities
During the online edition of the MobileWorlds Festival, Jo Blake provided us with a wonderful performance of a story, specially selected, revised, and introduced for the purposes of this festival, connecting storytelling, myth, and mobilities. We were able to record her performance, and the recording is now available on our website! We are thrilled to…
Thinking Otherwise through “Third Cultures” – Podcast Episode linking MobileWorlds to Planetary Planning
This week a new episode was published on the Planetary Planning Podcast featuring especially the MobileWorlds project. The episode explicitly connects the subjects at the core of MobileWorlds with those of the Planetary Planning Podcast – namely the overlaps in relation to “thinking otherwise” and exploring what the concept of third cultures might contribute also…
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 exhibition from the MobileWorlds Festival.…
The MobileWorlds Festival: Bergen Edition one week away!
The Bergen edition of the MobileWorlds Festival is already only a week away! We are so excited to begin this series of events to explore, play with, and share diverse ideas about how to define and shift cultures of mobilities today and in future. If you haven’t done so yet, be sure to register, either…
Cultures of Water – Connecting Culture, Arts and Water Heritage
[Image from the beautiful cover of the Cultures of Water Special Issue published this September in the Cultural Studies Journal] Culture is a slippery, complex concept. The MobileWorlds project is focused mostly on how culture affects mobility, and what cultures of mobilities are and could be. Alongside this, however, I (Kim) have also worked…
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 see the recording see here!…
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 of ever more data as…
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 list, I had the pleasure…
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 their future. As I previously…
MobileWorlds Library published!
We are excited to share that the MobileWorlds library is now published! Several parts are still under construction, but we’ve included several books, recipes, and podcasts so far, as well as referring again to the theatre performance by Roseane dos Reis. We’ll be including articles, films and music soon, so stay tuned, and do let…
A personal TCK story about transportation
As I discuss on multiple occasions on this website, I don’t see “third cultures” as emerging necessarily from a “Third Culture Kid” (TCK) background (see also Concepts page and the latest posts on “Third Cultures vs Third Culture Kids” and the feature on Roseane dos Reis). However, I (Kim) do personally have a Third Culture…
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 the performance above, with its…
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 amount of time, and migrants…
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 Third Cultures of Mobility: Exploring…
Feature #7: Ode to the Slow Cooker
The past months have been a bit quiet, as some may have noticed. This is because we have been slow cooking all the input we’ve gathered during this time, via workshops, reading, conferences and courses. It is telling for the state of academic work today, that a few months without reaching out actively to an…
Mobilidade casa-escola das crianças em 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 scooters on sidewalks, might be…
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 also providing hope for ways…
1st Anniversary of Mobile Worlds!
As we near the first anniversary of Mobile Worlds – the project anniversary was on the 1st of August 2023, but the website launch occurred a little later, in September – we have made a larger update of the Concepts and Methods pages, which we invite everyone to have a lookat. The pages will be…
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 entitled “Thinking otherwise. Transdisciplinary perspectives…
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 few of our insights, and…
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 of impressions.
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 to provide as wide as…
"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 – the video will be posted…
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 well as in Beelitz and…
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 researchers, some professors. All from…
Planetary Planning: The launching of a Podcast
Today marks the launch of a truly exciting Podcast: the “Planetary Planning Podcast: Explorations of more-than-human futures in planning and beyond”. This podcast is co-hosted by Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld and Susa Eräranta. For Kim, this is a truly exciting platform to explore ways of “thinking otherwise” about planning: as a more-than-human activity, and as…
Exploring Arts+Science in Planning
Recently, I co-organised a Webinar on Arts and Science in Planning with Sofia Greaves, Sofia Wiberg, Marcos L. Rosa and Raine Mäntysalo, together with Susa Eräranta. The debate touched on so many important themes that warrant much deeper discussion. It showed the breadth of relevance that art already has and is gaining further in the…
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 Munich. You can find more…
Culture & Mobility: a second (mini) workshop on cultural diversity and its mobility consequences
The second Mobile Worlds workshop was held on 4 April 2024 as a “mini” version, of a little less than one hour, at HVL. The workshop explored culture as the set of norms and values guiding – often almost imperceptibly – a given group’s thoughts and actions. It was fun to see the results emerging…
Seminar on (Transition) Experiments, Innovation, and ‘Thinking Otherwise’
Today I had the pleasure of sharing some insights based on previous work on innovation, experiments and learning, and linking this to my more recently begun work on thinking otherwise. The seminar was held as part of a series of “Out-of-the-Box” seminars organised by Nora Geirsdotter Bækkelund at the “Section for Innovation Studies” of the…