that is preparing the transition to more desirable and sustainable lifestyles.
It oversees research, publishes works,
and organizes events for the arts and sciences.
Survey on the impacts of the lockdown on French people’s mobility and lifestyles
The nationwide lockdown instated in France on March 17, 2020 to curb the rapid spread of Covid-19 has caused a restriction of people’s freedom that is unprecedented in peacetime, especially on their freedom to move and travel. At the Mobile [...]
The lockdown is revealing the limits of our lifestyles, pace of life and environments
While contemporary lifestyles are structured around the ability to travel often, quickly and far, the lockdown has introduced an unprecedented constraint that has temporarily interrupted the usual spatial and temporal deployment of our [...]
Expatriation, relocation and remote work: how do companies organize professional mobility?
Corporate social responsibility, coworking and delocalisation place mobility at the heart of new corporate management practices. This research project examines the new practices surrounding corporate mobility management. Three case studies [...]
One foot in the city, one foot in the village: the invisible mobility of urban workers in India
The lockdown in India caused a humanitarian catastrophe that could have been avoided: several million people suddenly left the cities for the hinterland, sometimes without resources or means of transport. These workers and their families, [...]
Video-communications, videoconferencing and the lockdown
Up until now, the use of video-communication was fairly marginal, but with the lockdown period, most of us seem to have adopted it with disconcerting ease. It seems however to be used as a poor substitute for physical face-to-face meetings [...]
Covid-19: “The crisis allows us to radically reinvent our mobilities”
Due to Covid-19, mobility has come to a standstill almost everywhere in the world. This historic moment presents an opportunity to collectively reconsider how we move around: how do we want to travel in the future? How can we adapt our [...]
On global counter-productivity. The critique of mobility and the coronavirus crisis
At the beginning of April 2020, more than half the world's population was on lockdown. It has therefore become more necessary than ever to question the role of our global mobility system. In view of this, the critiques of mobility that [...]
Mobility: the lifeblood of modernity and the virus that threatens to undo it
In my 2006 book, On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World, I wrote that mobility was the lifeblood of mobility and the virus that threatens to undo it. The idea was further developed in reflections on the concept of [...]
Narrative game - In 2061, what do young people prefer: physical mobility or virtual mobility?
What importance would young people give to physical and virtual mobilities in the organization of their activities across the territory, in a future where resources, especially energy, were constrained? To answer this question Æ Coop, a [...]
