Insights on Mobility Cultures & Policies
Relevant humanists and social scientists are nowadays reflecting on how emerging technologies are changing mobility cultures and social values, and how values affect mobility practices and policies. The Coronavirus pandemic makes the world a living lab to further develop these reflections. Policies restraining or prohibiting individual freedom to move and surveying people’s daily lives are applied to protect social health (a prevailing citizen’s right). These policies cause huge economic costs on many sectors and companies (e.g. tourism) but also benefits to few others (e.g. telecommunications, e-commerce).
Policies restraining physical mobility create social distress and psychological suffering to many; however it is imperative to apply these policies to save millions of lives worldwide. Furthermore, new and more disruptive technologies will create ethical dilemmas in the near future, for example to what extent we humans can rely on intelligent machines to make better decisions for ourselves and others. The language and everyday categories we presently use (e.g. public interest/common good, individual/social, private/public, utility/meaning, behaviour/value, science/art, data/knowledge, cost/benefit, consumer/producer, local/global…), need to be redefined if we want to be able to imagine new and better futures for all. Many people, from artists to scientists and politicians, have already provided inspiring thoughts on these issues.
Coming up
The Beauty of Sustainable Mobility
Embedding the New Bauhaus Vision in our Future Mobility Paradigm
Online lively talk among philosophers, mobility experts and architects addressing questions such as: How can the quality of the mobility experience unleash a sense of belonging? And how can the Bauhaus vision be embedded in the “new mobility paradigm”?
Keynote: Filippo Fimiani, Doctor in Philosophy and Full Professor of Aesthetics in the University of Salerno
Expert panel: Andrea Ricci (Foresight expert), Cristina Marolda (Architect, expert in mobility), Andreu Ulied (Expert on urban and regional
planning), Ghadir Pourhashem (Expert in transportation planning) and Alain L’Hostis (Expert in spatial Planning)
