Week 1: Why Mobility Language Matters-Course Introduction
Course Introduction with Marco te Brömmelstroet and George Liu
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Meet the team
Content and Aim of Alternative Narratives for Urban Mobility Futures
Keep notes to prepare for your final assignment!
Support and feedback
Week 1: Why Mobility Language Matters-Block 1: Why Mobility Language Matters | Intro and Academic Lesson
Block 1 content
The Art of Using Mobility Language
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How much time to spend on academic papers?
"Interpretative flexibility" and "Discourse institutionalization"
Week 1: Why Mobility Language Matters-Block 1: Why Mobility Language Matters | Popular Lessons
Don't Say 'Cyclists,' Say 'People on Bikes'
What to Do if You’re Hit by a Car
Week 1: Why Mobility Language Matters-Introducing LOOPY and the Weekly Assignments
About the Weekly Assignments
Systems Thinking and Loopy Tutorial
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Examples of Loopy System Diagrams
Week 2: The Dominant Narrative: Mobility as Disutility-Block 2: Mobility as Disutility | Intro and Academic Lesson
Block 2 content
Block 2 Intro with Miloš Mladenović
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"Current key imaginaries of mobility" and "From economic thinking to economic being"
Week 2: The Dominant Narrative: Mobility as Disutility-Block 2: Mobility as Disutility | Popular Lessons and Mini-Assignment
Texas A&M Urban Mobility Report
The Boring Company
Videos on the effects of the dominant narrative
What is a mobility innovation?
Examples of Mobility Innovations
Week 3: Alternative 1: Mobility as Unnecessity-Block 3: Mobility as Unnecessity | Intro and Academic Lesson
Block 3 content
Immotility as resilience? A key consideration for transport policy and research
Reflection: The Roots of Dominant Mobility Imaginaries, narrated by António Ferreira
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Reflection: Localism and Immotility, narrated by António Ferreira
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Reflection: Mobility Beyond Instrumentalism, narrated by António Ferreira
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(Optional) The social destruction of speed
Week 3: Alternative 1: Mobility as Unnecessity-Block 3: Mobility as Unnecessity | Popular Lessons and Mini-Assignment
If Seeing the World Helps Ruin It, Should We Stay Home?
Viewpoint blog on mindful traveling
Week 4: Alternative 2: Commoning Mobility-Block 4: Mobility as Commons | Intro and Academic Lesson
Block 4 content
Block 4 Intro with Anna Nikolaeva
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Commoning mobility: Towards a new politics of mobility transitions
Week 4: Alternative 2: Commoning Mobility-Block 4: Mobility as Commons | Popular Lessons and Mini-Assignment
How this Amsterdam inventor gave bike-sharing to the world
Talking Living Streets with Ghent’s Vice Mayor Filip Watteeuw | Streetfilms.org
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Prompt video for forum post on COVID-19 and Commoning Mobility
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Week 5: Alternative 3: Mobility as Play-Block 5: Mobility as Play | Intro and Academic Lesson
Block 5 content
Block 5 Intro with Marco te Brömmelstroet and George Liu
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Have a good trip! Expanding our concepts of the quality of travel time with flow theory
Week 5: Alternative 3: Mobility as Play-Block 5: Mobility as Play | Popular Lessons and Mini-Assignment
Why Run? BBC Radio Four Thought episode with Adharanand Finn
Week 6: Alternative 4: Mobility as Interaction-Block 6: Mobility as Interaction | Intro and Academic Lesson
Block 6 content
Travelling together alone and alone together: mobility and potential exposure to diversity
Week 6: Alternative 4: Mobility as Interaction-Block 6: Mobility as Interaction | Popular Lessons and Mini-Assignment
Jane Jacobs's Sidewalk Ballet
People-centered methods for cycling
Week 7: Final Assignment-Final Assignment
“Mobility as meaningful part of societies“