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Applied Mobilities

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Space of Flows and Friction

To cite this article: (2016) Space of Flows and Friction, Applied Mobilities, 1:1, 135-135, DOI:10.1080/23800127.2016.1150572

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Applied Mobilities, 2016Vol. 1, No. 1, 135http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23800127.2016.1150572

Space of Flows and Friction October 27th-30th, 2016, Mexico City

The International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M) invites proposals for panels and papers to be presented at the 14th Annual Conference in Mexico City.

This year under the umbrella topic ‘Spaces of Flows and Friction’ T2M aims to highlight the relationships between mobility and space, its temporality and production. These multiple relationships have been expressed in ideas such as territorialisation and de- territorialisation, movement-space, and space-time. ‘We claim with our conference that space is an effect of motion’ says Mimi Sheller, the T2M president.

Beyond its materiality, spaces of mobility may take shape as social, cultural and embodied relationships. Can a new perspective, wherein mobility is central to understanding space, help us to re-write the ways in which those spaces were produced? ‘Can we based on this re-think how they are lived?’, asks the architect Victor Marques, the main organizer of the venue.

Beyond the fact that the megalopolis inevitably triggers questions about past, present and future urban life, Mexico City has been shaped over the last five centuries as a ‘frictional’ stage where changing place through the space of others has been a matter of conflict. Those tensions are still breathable and visible in its monuments, buildings, markets and street life. Because this enormous city was built on top of a lake, the original modes of dis-placement across Chinampas (Floating parcels) included the Trajinera (Oversized, communal vessels), and other indigenous types of crafts. Technological change during three centuries as a Spanish colony, and particularly during the rise of Mexico as an independent country, pushed a wide multimodal palette in service of its geographically and culturally challenging ‘national bonding’. Marques thinks Mexico City will be the perfect setting to discuss these topics.

The call for papers openly aims to bridge research approaches, welcoming proposals from different disciplines dealing with mobility studies such as history, sociology, anthropology, geography, economy, planning studies, business history, architecture, design, communi-cation, etc.

The call for papers will be open until March 31st, 2016.For further information visit:http://ocs.sfu.ca/t2m/index.php/t2m/T2M2016 or our parent website www.t2m.org

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