Material Mobilities

ISBN-13: 9780367726676 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 264 str.

Ole B. Jensen; Claus Lassen; Ida Sofie Gøtzsche Lange

Opis

Material Mobilities explores the material dimension of various forms of mobilities and its implications for society, politics and everyday experiences as well as investigates how materials themselves are on the move.

Spis treści

Foreword  1. Material Mobilities  2. From Structure to Infrastructuring? On Transport Infrastructures and Socio-Material Ordering  3. The Cathedrals of Automobility: How to Read a Motor Show  Interlude 1: Immaterial Immobilities and the Infrastructuring of Mobile Utopia  4. Relating Movement to Information in Consumer Mobilities, Using Space Syntax  5. "It's Going to Be Very Slippery": Snow, Space and Mobility While Learning Cross-Country Skiing  6. Moving Forward - Left Behind: Asynchrone Experiences. The Use of Mobile Media Technologies When Young People Leave.  7. Mapping Unknown Knowns of Transit Infrastructures  Interlude 2: Five Ways to Make Them Political  8. Designing Places for Experiences: A Study of Architectural Practices  9. A Material Review of Costa Rica’s Attempt to Carbon Neutrality: Assembling Heterogeneous Actor-Networks of Emissions, Mobilities and Calculations  10. Acupunctural Mobilities Design ‘From Below’: Reflecting on Uneven Material Mobilities in the Global South, the Caracas a Pie Case  Interlude 3: Material Mobilities – ‘Keynote Interlude’  11. Moving With: Molecular Mobilities and Our Connective Tissue Fascia  12. Mobile Work, Space and Processes of Transition  13. Dwelling on the Move

O autorze

Ole B. Jensen is Professor, Deputy Director, and Co-Founder of the Centre for Mobilities and Urban Studies (C-MUS), Aalborg University. His main research interests are Urban Mobilities, Mobilities Design, and Networked Technologies. He has published more than 200 academic publications on cities, mobilities, and design.

Claus Lassen is Associate Professor and Director of the Centre of Mobility and Urban Studies (C-MUS) at Aalborg University. His research analyses changing social relations in the light of international air travel, and he has published a number of articles and book chapters on business travel, aeromobilities and airports.

Ida Sofie Gøtzsche Lange is Assistant Professor and board member at the Center for Mobilities and Urban Studies　(C-MUS), Aalborg University. Her main research interests are within Urban Mobilities, Port City Relationships, Urban Design, Planning, Place theory and Mobilities Design.