{"id":3546,"date":"2025-06-13T16:14:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T14:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobileworlds.online\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=3546"},"modified":"2025-11-05T17:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:26:08","slug":"rgs-online-mobileworlds-will-have-a-double-special-session-and-one-presentation","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/mobileworlds.online\/pt\/event\/rgs-online-mobileworlds-will-have-a-double-special-session-and-one-presentation\/","title":{"rendered":"RGS Online – MobileWorlds will have a double special session and one presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year at the Royal Geographical Society’s annual conference<\/a>, MobileWorlds organized a double special session entitled “Third Cultures of Mobility: Exploring and stimulating alternative mobility futures and research methodologies<\/strong>“. The sessions also included a presentation by Kim, entitled “Mobilities in Times of Crisis: Seeking Third Cultures of Mobility Through Creative Participatory Methods”, and a presentation by Wendy, entitled “Talking the Talk, Walking the Walk: Auto-ethnographic Reflections on Multicultural Terms of Mobility.” Other presentations will be held by Peter Norton, Stefanos Tsigdinos, Ant\u00f3nio Ferreira, Enrica Papa, Hannah Hook, Joyce David, Dario Stolze, Thomas Klinger, and Sonja Haustein.<\/p>\n

Below you can find the summary of the theme of the sessions and the program of short presentations that are included in each session. The sessions are organised in such a way that they should allow plenty of room for discussion of the sessions’ theme. Further details to be found via the conference’s own program (see the links for session 1<\/a> e session 2<\/a>).<\/p>\n

RGS Online Special Session: Third Cultures of Mobility: Exploring and stimulating alternative mobility futures and research methodologies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Organisers: Kim Carlotta von Sch\u00f6nfeld and Wendy Tan<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n

According to David Graeber, \u201cthe ultimate truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently\u201d (Graeber, 2024). (Hyper)-Mobilities and other mechanisms of globalization, however, seem to imply that it has become increasingly difficult to perceive ways to make things differently, despite (or because of?) intensive contact among countless cultures around the globe. The question then is, how can creative and diverse alternatives for mobilities be stimulated in this context? This session explores possibilities in this regard, with some more classical, some more radical presentations of non-mainstream (usually non-car-based) mobility cultures, and methods of how these can be explored. The session discussion explores in depth how the proposals presented can be connected, for instance through the conceputalisation of \u201cThird cultures of mobility\u201d. The latter refer to cultural interweavings that emerge when various cultures interact in significant ways. What might \u201cThird Cultures of Mobility\u201d look like, and how might they contribute to more or less openness to change in regards to the futures of mobilities (or immobilities)? Within the context of turbulent global times, and polycrises to which some contemporary mobility practices contribute to a very high extent (through CO2 emissions, as well as by other dynamics, such as lack of local engagement and superficialisation of human relations), other contemporary mobility practices provide important solutions (e.g. minimising mobility, or shaping or enacting it differently, using it to deepen both local engagement and human relations, and questioning the need for streamlined, speed-based mobility). After all, perhaps it is not only how much we move, but (also) about how we move.<\/p>\n

Not only cultural creativity, but also questions of communication\/vocabularies, and methodological creativity when studying and\/or encouraging cultural diversity can be key when exploring \u201cThird Cultures of Mobility\u201d. Arts-based workshops and mobile interviewing have been used to trigger cultural reflection and interaction (see e.g. https:\/\/mobileworlds.online<\/a>), but many other creative methods and methodologies have been emerging.<\/p>\n

This set of two special sessions provides a platform for discussion creative ways of dealing with cultural diversity and diverse methodologies in mobilities research, including but not limited to:<\/p>\n