Tidspunkt 

18.03.2022 kl. 09.00 - 17.00

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Sustainable mobilities in smart and livable cities.

The advanced and rapid changes in the mobility landscape raise new ethical challenges about who has access to the mobile city. Questions arise about how to secure social justice when seeking transition to sustainable urban mobilities. A key topic for the future is also how cities and their mobility systems respond to the present risks of society e.g., climate change, pandemics, disasters. These themes will be presented by two leading professors within mobilities studies, Professor Mimi Sheller and Professor Sven Kesselring, who will also engage in discussions with researchers from around Europe on issues such as car-parenting, fear of contagion in public transport, dark design, and street space experimentation.

Professor Mimi Sheller

Mimi Sheller, Ph.D., is Inaugural Dean of The Global School at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Massachusetts. Until July 2021 she was Professor of Sociology, Head of the Sociology Department, and founding Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

She is founding co-editor of the journal Mobilities and past President of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility. She helped to establish the “new mobilities paradigm” and is a key theorist in critical mobilities research and in Caribbean studies. She serves on the international Advisory Boards for the Society for Caribbean Research, the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at University of Pennsylvania, the Bauman Institute at the University of Leeds, the Asia Mobilities Research Network and the Academy for Mobility Humanities at Konkuk University, South Korea, and the Global Partnership for Informal Transportation. She was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa from Roskilde University, Denmark (2015).

Professor Sven Kesselring

Sven Kesselring, sociologist, holds a PhD from LudwigMaximilians University Munich and a doctoral degree (habilitation) from TU Munich, both in sociology. He is professor in ‘Sustainable Mobilities’ at NuertingenGeislingen University, Germany (HfWU) and represents the international research network Cosmobilities.

Since 2011 he has been the director of the PhD program ‘Sustainable Mobilities in Metropolitan Regions’ with TU Munich and he is the dean of the master program in ‘Sustainable Mobilities’ at HfWU. Sven is co-editor of the journal Applied Mobilities, the book series Networked Urban Mobilities (Routledge) and Studies in Mobility and Transport (Springer VS). In 2018 he was research fellow in residence at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld University. Sven is member of the scientific board of the Strategy Dialogue for the Transformation of the Automobile Industry in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, and leads the living lab “Sustainable Mobility in Neighborhoods (MobiQ)".

Programme

• 12:00 Introduction by Professor Malene Freudendal-Pedersen
• 12:15 Keynote Professor Sven Kesselring: Framing sustainable mobilities in the mobile risk society
• 12:45 Break
• 13:00 Jonne Silonsaari, Postdoc, University of Amsterdam / University of Jyväskylä: Concerted cultivation and car-parenting in the mobile risk society: Challenging parenting priorities through action research
• 13:30 Common discussion of presentation
• 14:00 Tobias Boelt Back, Postdoc, Aalborg University: On the fear of contagion as a barrier for change towards more sustainable collective intercity mobilities in the mobile risk society
• 14:30 Common discussion of presentation
• 15:00 Coffee break
• 15:30 Keynote Professor Mimi Sheller: Understanding challenges of contemporary societies through a mobility justice lens
• 16:00 Carsten Hviid Nielsen, PhD Fellow, Aalborg University: Dark Design - Social Exclusion in Urban Spaces
• 16:30 Common discussion of presentation
• 17:00 Emilia Smeds, Postdoc, University of Westminster: Street space experimentation through the lens of mobility justice
• 17:30 Common discussion of presentation
• 18:00 Common reflections of the masterclass
   

This event is part of the CCAMEU project Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility: EU and Australasian Innovations, which integrates social scientific data on the development and deployment of CCAM from a macro systems perspective, as well as perspectives focused on lived experience and everyday practice.