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Students on three hour “Future Walk” see that politics are everywhere!

STUDENT NEWS: To better understand how the politics of climate change play out across the social realm, a new research methodology has been developed called the Low Carbon Mobile Lab. City planner Christian Wilke, took students from the Bachelor course ‘The Politics of Climate Change’ on three hour “Future Walk”- from the Bulls on the hill to Max IV and ESS and into the empty fields.

Lecturers Roger Hildingsson and Johannes Stripple organised a small-scale mobile lab (29/9) focusing on 'planning for low carbon futures' in the new Brunnshög area in the northeast of Lund.

On the walk it became obvious that politics are everywhere -in the question of land, zoning and ownership, in the detalis and grey zones of the codes, norms and building regulations, in the decisions around mobility, from trams and cars to electric bikes, courier services and walkable neighborhoods, in the visions and imaginings of what Brunnshög wants to be, and who Brunnshög is for.

Taking inspiration from multisited ethnography The Mobile Lab enables researchers to explore social and material dimensions of field sites in a collaborative and dialogical fashion.

Mobile labs have previously been done on low carbon urban development in Malmö, electric mobility in Copenhagen, District heating in Lund, smart city developments in Stockholm and Chicago.

 

Learn more about the Bachelor course ‘The Politics of Climate Change