1. Opinions

In the Opinions section, find socially and politically engaged articles that defend and reveal alternative approaches to mobility.

The flying less movement

Javier Caletrío

19 July 2018


Compared to the cacophony of disparate voices praising the virtues of driving less, cycling and walking, calls for rethinking our flying habits have until recently been few and far between. Yet the number of advocates of ‘flying less’ has been steadily growing for more than a decade. As their voices begin to echo further afield, they have turned what was until recently a rather niche debate into a movement reshaping the way we think of air travel. Who are these people and what is their message?

From Constructed Scarcity and Mobility Austerity towards Mobility Commons?

Vivre à l'ère de la transition mobilitaire

18 July 2018


We’ve got a lack of space in the city, we’ve got a lack of space on the road and we’ve got a lack of space… it’s a strange metaphor, but – a lack of space in the air…let’s say… CO2.

Sustainable mobility consultant, the Netherlands

 

Thematics : Policies, Theories

Robert Smithson and the gold rush

Guillaume Logé

17 July 2018


It is alongside a highway under construction that we find Robert Smithson, whose work we analyzed in the previous post . Where does this long expanse of asphalt the construction equipment is unfurling actually lead? What does it tell us about the way we develop? What drives us to build it?

Future London: Sustaining the Unsustainable? A Book Review

Vivre à l'ère de la transition mobilitaire

16 July 2018


In November 2014 I visited the launch of the book “Sustainable London? The Future of a Global City” co-edited by Loretta Lees (University of Leicester) and Rob Imrie (Goldsmiths, University of London). One thought was repeated by most speakers: “sustainable development” discourse in London on closer examination turns out to be about “sustaining the unsustainable”.

Periodizing Mobilities and Scales of Transition.

Vivre à l'ère de la transition mobilitaire

16 July 2018


A Guardian report on April 30th 2015 suggested that the US, UK and other advanced economies might have reached or passed their point of peak car use.[1] The economic crash of 2008 meant that car traffic, growing since cars were invented, plateaued and fell.

Thematics : Lifestyles, Policies, Theories

Sustainable motility

Vivre à l'ère de la transition mobilitaire

16 July 2018


As a researcher of the Living in the Mobility Transition project, I have been thinking about new ways of unpacking the so-called “mobility transitions”, over the past six months. Last month, both at the Royal Geographical Society and the Cosmobilities/T2M annual conferences, I came forward with some ideas, although these are still (very) preliminary and incipient.

Thematics : Lifestyles, Policies, Theories

Manifesto : Preparing the mobility transition

Mobile Lives Forum

16 July 2018


As the Mobile Lives Forum's website goes live, we present you our manifesto.

What if walking became public transport’s closest ally?

Mobile Lives Forum

16 July 2018


Discover the results of Marche à suivre, an experimental project of the Mobile Lives Forum. Two study fields, two issues, two ways of promoting walking in combination with public transport.

Que peut apporter l'art sur les études de la mobilité ?

Mobile Lives Forum

16 July 2018


Le croisement entre démarches scientifique et artistique donne lieu, depuis quelques années, à un nombre croissant de réflexions et de réalisations. Ces investigations se situent essentiellement dans le champ des mathématiques, de la physique ou de la biologie. On compte toutefois quelques mobilisations de l’art dans le champ des sciences humaines et sociales, pour sonder des phénomènes urbains aux côtés des méthodes plus classiques de la géographie et de la sociologie par exemple.

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

Guillaume Logé

16 July 2018


Interview with Jean-Jacques Lebel, a major artist and unrivalled actor and witness of some of the most important artistic movements of the second half of the 20th century. His work has an unusual relationship with mobility, addressing it simultaneously as a learning, creative and liberating process.

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

Guillaume Logé

16 July 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.

The surexpression of wander lines

Guillaume Logé

16 July 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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