Rebalance Talks

Online conversations with Andreu Ulied and visionary thinkers from the social sciences and humanities, mobility experts, stakeholders and European policy decision-makers on the topic of New Mobility Cultures and Policies. On this page you can find the Talks summaries and the online recording of the Talks.

Saskia Sassen

“We have to stop expanding
our big cities”

Tim Cresswell

“We need to move beyond thinking of mobility as strictly transportation”.

Mimi Sheller

“Mobility is part of
social movements that we
must protect”.

Jacques Lévy

“We need to re-evaluate
what we consider universal”.
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Dragos Simandan

“Being guide by a single value is troubling; when you push a value to its extreme it becomes a vice”.

Judy Wajcman

“Science is from its beginning
and end fundamentally social and political”.

Carl Honoré

“It’s about doing everything as
well as possible instead of as fast as possible”.

Alain Bonnafous

“Speed continues to be an important factor in transport policy
and not something that will likely change”.

Mateu Turró

“We were very convinced that we were going in a path towards more rights and now we are finding that maybe we are not”.

Andreas Knie

“There are things that
machines can do better
than humans, and we should
let them”.

Mark Coeckelbergh

“Technology is always
partly human”.

Noel B. Salazar

“Multi-Scalar mobilities are central to understand the complexities of the current global condition”

Marta C. González

“Human patterns and nowcasting: Science and technology at the service of social well-being”.

Massimo Moraglio

“Beyond empowerment:
The growing relevance of Mobility’s
dark side”.

Filippo Fimiani

“The Beauty of Sustainable Mobility: Embedding the New Bauhaus Vision in our Future Mobility Paradigm”

  • Judy Wajcman Talk
  • Andreas Knie Talk
  • Alain Bonnafous Talk