Material Mobilities

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.

• 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

"Through combining the 'mobilities turn' in the social sciences with the new interest in the material dimensions of social worlds, Material Mobilities offers eye-opening perspectives on the everyday world, its infrastructural landscapes, and the power-dimensions of mobilities. Reading this book will leave you sensing, feeling, and moving through your own social world with renewed curiosity."- Prof Mimi Sheller, Director of the Center for Mobilities Research & Policy, Drexel University, USA"That social theory would turn back to reflect on its development in the contradictions of mobilities was predictable; but nothing could have prepared us for Jensen, Lassen, Lange and their colleagues’ extraordinary engagement with the discourse of materialities. This collection is absolutely indispensable."- Prof Anthony Elliott, Executive Director of the Hawke EU Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, University of South Australia