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

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. I will start with a few of my favourites.

1. 'The superposition of car traffic' by Emil Maj Christensen

2. 'How we deal with public space' by Karl Jilg, made for the Swedish Road Administration.

3. 'Unjust road space distribution' by Fabian Todorovic

4. 'Radical challenging car logic' by unknown

5. 'Uneven attention for sustainable mobility solutions' via Donald Shoup

6. 'Traffic inducing traffic' by unknown

7. 'Sacrifices' by Ken Avidor

8. 'We all make sacrifices' by Tom Flood

9. 'Public storage space' by Dave Walker

10. 'The 21st century Arch of Noach' by Anne Derene

11. 'Build it and they will come' by Martin Richardson.

12. 'If we would build our homes the same way we build our streets' by Nacion Rotonda.

13. 'The hostility we created on our streets for children' by Mehdi

14. 'Case studies where more roads solved it' via Daniel Moser

15. 'Parking' via Arnold Gall

16. 'The space argument' by unknown

17. 'Pollution/solution' via Hvaldimir

18. 'Simple mathematics' by Stephanie Krone

19. 'We all want change, but we all don't want to change' by unknown

20. 'Divide and conquer' by @Bartoonist

21. 'The race between the tortoise and the hare' by unknown

22. Induced demand by unknown

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

24. Noah's Ark 2020 (by Anne Derenne )

25. Height of folly by Jen Sorensen

26. E-congestion is still congestion by BikeIsBest

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