
Changing Mobilities
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Mobilities in public spaces are 'naturally' changing. What are the key changes?
Designers and policy-makers are intentionally changing mobility infrastructures, services, technologies and 'behaviours'. How are aims, incentives, visions formulated, implemented, appropriated, and evaluated?
What practices and processes drive innovation?
How can mobilities research and mobile methods inform change better?
Buescher contends that as analysts and designers inspired by the mobilities turn move with the people, objects, and ideas involved, they not only produce knowledge about, but also experiential knowledge of the complex effects of changing (im)mobilities, which can support the 'carefully radical and radically careful design' that is needed to shape desirable mobility futures. The book argues that it is productive to 'mobilize' innovation. Not least because the sensitivities and practices of engaged mobilities research respond to, and help define, 'homo mobilis', an emerging, perhaps imperfectly, but newly sensitized and equipped descendant of homo faber to address challenges posed by the momentous changes in mobile living likely to be wrought as climate change takes hold.
The book will be of interest to students and scholars of mobility studies, urban sociology, media and digital culture studies, transport and technology, design, technology, science and technology studies.
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Monika Büscher is Emerita Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, UK. Her interdisciplinary research on mobilities explores low-carbon transport innovation, the informationalization of emergency response and risk governance, IT ethics in information sharing, and infrastructuring equitable urban futures. She has led research in range of national and international projects (DecarboN8, GREAT, BRIDGE, SecInCoRe). She has published many articles and books, including Ethnograpies of Diagnostic Work, Mobile Methods, and Design Research. Synergies from Interdisciplinary Perspectives. She edits the book series Changing Mobilities (Routledge) with Peter Adey.
Greg Marsden is Professor of Transport Governance at the Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Leeds. He has researched issues surrounding the design and implementation of new policies for over 20 years covering a range of issues. He is an expert in climate and energy policy in the transport sector and the governance of smart mobility. He is currently exploring the role of place in the energy transition and the potential for transformative post car-ownership futures.