Aslak Aamot Kjaerulff - Envisioning Networked Urban Mobilities: Art, Performances, Impacts: Volume 3

Envisioning Networked Urban Mobilities brings together scientific reflections on the relations of art and urban mobilities and artistic research on the topic. The editors open the book by setting out the concept grounded in the exhibition curated by Aslak Aamot Kjrulff and refers to earlier work on mobilities and art generated by the Cosmobilities Network. This third volume has two sections, both consisting of short papers and illustrations. The first section is based on artists who were part of the conferences art exhibition, and the second part is based on theoretical reflections on art and artists.

Aslak Aamot Kjrulff holds a PhD in Mobilities and Action Research from Roskilde University, Denmark. He currently organizes a transdisciplinary research and arts organization called Diakron and teaches at Roskilde University.

Sven Kesselring is Research Professor in Automotive Management: Sustainable Mobilities and the director of the Master of Science program Sustainable Mobilities at Nrtingen-Geislingen University (NGU), Germany. His research focuses on the sociology of (auto)mobilities, social theory, and the impact of technology and digitalization on everyday and professional lives. He is the founder and co-manager of the international Cosmobilities Network and co-director of the joint PhD program Sustainable Mobility and Mobility Cultures of TU Munich and NGU. He is cofounder and co-editor of the new journal Applied Mobilities and Studies in Mobility and Transport. He has edited several books including Aeromobilities (with Saulo Cwerner and John Urry).

Peter Peters is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. He is trained as a sociologist and holds a PhD for his dissertation on mobilities in technological cultures, in which he combines insights from social theory and science and technology studies to analyze practices of travel.

Kevin Hannam is Professor of Tourism Mobilities in the Business School at Edinburgh Napier University, UK, and a research affiliate at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. In 2015/2016 he was awarded a Vice-Chancellors International Scholarship to the University of Wollongong, Australia. Previously he was at Leeds Beckett University, UK, and the University of Sunderland, UK.

Editors: Sven Kesselring

Nrtingen-Geislingen University

Malene Freudendal-Pedersen

Roskilde University

The Networked Urban Mobilities series resulted from the Cosmobilities Network of mobility research and the Taylor & Francis journal Applied Mobilities. This three-volume set, ideal for mobilities researchers and practitioners, explores a broad number of topics including planning, architecture, geography, and urban design.

Exploring Networked Urban Mobilities

Theories, Concepts, Ideas

Edited by Malene Freudendal-Pedersen and Sven Kesselring

Experiencing Networked Urban Mobilities

Practices, Flows, Methods

Edited by Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Katrine Hartmann-Petersen and Emmy Laura Perez Fjalland

Envisioning Networked Urban Mobilities

Art, Performances, Impacts

Edited by Aslak Aamot Kjrulff, Sven Kesselring, Peter Peters and Kevin Hannam

In the emerging field of artistic research, sensory and embodied ways of knowing take center stage. At the same time, qualitative social scientists and geographers are developing a keen interest in new methodologies that draw inspiration from the arts. This timely volume on the nexus of arts and mobilities research stages an engaged dialogue between leading academic scholars and artists.

Henk Borgdorff, Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University, the Netherlands

Edited by
Aslak Aamot Kjrulff, Sven Kesselring,
Peter Peters and Kevin Hannam

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