Let's collect the most powerful new mobility imaginaries to unlock our thinking! Part II

Let's collect the most powerful new mobility imaginaries to unlock our thinking! Part II

The dominant efficiency- and speed based narrative of urban mobility limits our understanding of mobility phenomena and ultimately limits the effectiveness of our transport policy interventions and technological innovations. This narrative dates back to choices that were made in the 1920s and have since then solidified into common guidelines, models, laws and institutions, into concrete, steel and technologies, and into the limits of our imagination. Indeed, the domination of a nearly centenary narrative is most unlikely to contribute to the resolution of problems that were unthinkable when its seed was forcefully planted.

Radical change of mobility requires radical ways of thinking.

Radical ways of thinking requires new imaginaries.

Let's collect here the imaginaries that can help us further. Which ones have you encountered? Put them in the comments and I will keep updating this. This is an update of new favourites after the first version that you can find here.

1. Drive to work/Work to drive by Andy Singer

2. Noah's Ark 2020 (by Anne DERENNE)

3. Height of folly by Jen Sorensen

4. E-congestion is still congestion by BikeIsBest

5. You are taking away my FREEDOM by Bruce Davinson

6. These e-scooters are everywhere by SchoeneScheisse

7. Efficiency of parking space by Jacco Bontekoe

8. What can you (not) store on a public street by Dave Walker.

9. Are your dreams big enough? by WATG and Wimberly Interiors

11. Perspective by Tom Flood

12. Safer streets are not a technical challenge by Paulo Alcazaren

13. Hogging the road by Saboteur Cyclist

14. Electric vehicles are not the solutions (source unknown)

15. Priorities by Thomas Hug

16. Priorities in snow clearance (source unknown)

17. Soul-crushing isolation by Liuhuahua

18. A short history of traffic engineering by Daniel Ernesto Moser

19. Museum of Transportation by UrbanWorks

Source

So, add your favourite Mobility Memes or share your thoughts on them in the comments!

Joost Rijkers

Vakgroephoofd & adviseur bij Kragten | bouwen aan duurzame verbindingen

11 个月
Tony Stuart

Patent Paralegal at De Clercq & Partners

11 个月

Ach kindje je vader is nog op kantoor Ik heb ook een auto en daar werkt ie voor omdat ik je steeds van school halen moet want ze rijden je overhoop te voet Ach mama, als niet iedereen twee auto's had dan was het veel veiliger in de stad dan hoefde papa ook niet te werken zo laat en stond hij zelf na schooltijd te wachten op straat (uit: Yevgueni - Mama, ik wil papa)

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