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An essential artistic approach? The case of the Industrial Heritage Trail in Germany

Guillaume Logé

16/07/2018

The creation of the Industrial Heritage Trail provided a link between and coherence of the various constituents of the Ruhr territory. The trail is an integral part of the region’s founding identity, on which its conception was based. While intended as a tourist trail, it is also a trail that reflects the virtuous exchange between culture and economic and social development.

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The surexpression of wander lines

Guillaume Logé

16/07/2018

The study of the wanderings of children with autism carried out by Fernand Deligny’s network over the course of a decade opens up thinking about the determinants of travel, our ability to express our own mobility identity and the invisible at play in our relationship to space and to others. More broadly, it is mobility as an ontological expression that we are called upon to conceive.

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20th of January 2013. Mobile Lives Forum. Introducing an artistic approach within the mobility questions.

Guillaume Logé

16/07/2018

Impressions on the artworks displayed during the International Meetings of the Mobile Lives Forum.

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Mobilities processes in Simon Starling’s work

Guillaume Logé

16/07/2018

Simon Starling’s use of travel acts both as a mirror of the irrational development models of our societies and as an invitation to invent other practices.

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Mobility and mobility capital through the work of Adrian Paci

Guillaume Logé

16/07/2018

The exhibition “Adrian Paci: Vies en transit,” (Paris, February 26-May 12, 2013, organized by Jeu de Paume) offers original perspectives on many aspects of mobility.

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Robert Smithson’s Many Flights

Guillaume Logé

16/07/2018

The death of Robert Smithson in a plane crash in 1973, while flying over one of his works in progress, helped forge the mythical aura of this American artist who, at age 35, left behind a literary and artistic legacy that would deeply impact the art world. Smithson’s flight clearly refers to his last, tragic flight, but above all seems an appropriate way of describing both the general attitude of an artist whose thinking developed as a consequence of a life spent in perpetual motion, and the…

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Accumulations and Wanderings, Interview with Jean-Jacques Lebel (Part II)

Guillaume Logé

16/07/2018

The first part of our interview with Jean-Jacques Lebel showed us how mobility helps us to build our perspective, giving us access to the freedom and autonomy necessary for individuals to manage themselves. The second part of the interview addresses wandering and drifting from the standpoint of social and political emancipation.

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Braudel, a mobilities scholar avant la lettre?

Javier Caletrío

16/07/2018

Braudel has been cited but rarely used in mobilities literature, yet his work places movement at the heart of social, economic and political life.

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What makes a slow tourist?

Javier Caletrío

16/07/2018

Slow tourism is gaining prominence as concern about climate change grows. Yet low carbon forms of tourism may be more widespread than is currently acknowledged.

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Displaced lives

Javier Caletrío

16/07/2018

Migration and displacement are often discussed in terms of abstract numbers. This powerful photo-essay by award winning photographer Alixandra Fazzina speaks of individual human beings in search of a secure place.

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Radical mitigation: a new priority in the mobilities agenda?

Javier Caletrío

16/07/2018

Research on ‘carbon budgets’ suggests that avoiding ‘dangerous climate change’ may require an ambitious reduction of certain forms of travel. Should this be a priority in the mobilities agenda?

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Mobile lives, screens and vision (I)

Javier Caletrío

16/07/2018

The use of vision, like the other senses, has evolved alongside technological changes. How much have histories of this affected current trends, and what may this tell us about posible futures?

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