Public online lecture “Transforming mobility practices through experimentation”

The lecture series “Mobility analysis and planning for human-scale cities“, arranged by the Mobility Lab, University of Tartu, features experts and leading scholars in the field of mobility and transport from Estonia and beyond. The lecture series seeks to answer the question of how to promote human-scale, sustainable, and just cities through mobility analysis and transport planning. 

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The sixth lecture of our series is “Transforming mobility practices through experimentation” by PhD Pia Lamborgne (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology).
Pia Laborgne is sociologist and sustainability researcher at the Karlsruhe Transformation Center for Sustainability and Cultural Change, KIT in Karlsruhe, Germany. Her focus of work are urban transformations as well as urban climate and sustainability strategies, e.g. regarding local governance, participation, knowledge co-creation and transdisciplinary research as well as sustainable consumption. Striving for contributing to co-creating sustainability transformations, she is especially interested in exploring how we can design transdisciplinary transformative research in an inclusive, engaging and motivating way in order to empower and involve many different people, perspectives, needs and ideas.
The lecture explores the role of experimentation in advancing sustainable mobility practices within urban environments. It will first introduce the conceptual approach of practice theory for understanding mobility practices and the interconnectedness with other fields of daily life. This approach uses social practices as a central unit of analysis, conceiving them as configurations of meanings, skills, and material objects (Shove et al. (2012)). The lecture will then focus on different forms of real world lab experimentation in the field of mobility practices from self-experiments to temporal interventions in public space.