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The Centre for Mobility and Urban Studies (C-MUS) at Aalborg University is a trans-disciplinary research collaboration between mobility researchers from the Humanities Faculty, Social Science Faculty and the Engineering and Science Faculty at Aalborg University. In this blog you will find everything related to C-MUS - Kristian Hegner Reinau, Editor of the C-MUS Paper Series and C-MUS Blog
New book out! Technologies of Mobility in the Americas
15.05.2012 • By Kristian Hegner Reinau • News
A new book on mobility has just come out: “Technologies of Mobility in the Americas”, by Phillip Vannini, Lucy Budd, Christian Fisker, Paola Jirón and C-MUS’s own, Ole B. Jensen – read more about it here!
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Mobility & Mobile Methods course
15.05.2012 • By Kristian Hegner Reinau • News
C-MUS has just organized a Ph.D. course: ‘Mobility & Mobile Methods’ (8-10 May 2012) for 20 international participants. You can see the pictures from the course below.
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Mobility Management in Smaller Towns
20.04.2012 • By Kristian Hegner Reinau • Uncategorized
Cathrine Borg is doing a really interesting Ph.D. project about the possibilities and challenges of implementing the concept of mobility management in a mobility strategy for smaller towns in Region of Southern Denmark. She explains the following about the project: The ability to be mobile in everyday life is at the core of contemporary society. [...]
Read more...Workshop: The use of social games in mobility research
13.04.2012 • By Kristian Hegner Reinau • News
Date: 30.04.2012 Room: Toldboden, Strandvejen 1 Registration deadline: April 24th 2012 to Allis Hansen at allis@plan.aau.dk Organisation: Patrick Driscoll, Ph.D. fellow, Department of Development and Planning, AAU, patrick@plan.aau.dk Anne-Marie Sanvig Knudsen, Ph.D. fellow , Department of Architecture, Design & Media Technology, AAU, askn@create.aau.dk About the workshop There is a growing body of empirical evidence [...]
Read more...C-MUS Younger Research Network
03.02.2012 • By Kristian Hegner Reinau • C-MUS Younger Research Network
A new research network has seen the light of day, and it is fast becoming a dynamic environment for younger researchers within the mobility field at Aalborg University! And it might be of interest to you – therefore, read on: Aim of C-MUS Younger Research Network As a subgroup to C-MUS a cross disciplinary Younger Research [...]
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Mobility Challenge North Jutland: Visit by the Minister for Housing,Urban and Rural Affairs
31.01.2012 • By Kristian Hegner Reinau • Mobility Challenge North Jutland (MUN)
Yesterday the Minister for Housing, Urban and Rural Affairs visited Mobility Challenge North Jutland. Here is the official press anouncement (in danish, sorry), as well as a picture form the very succesful and intersting event. Photo by Cecilie Breinholm Christensen. Pressemeddelelse Ministerbesøg AAU 30 januar 2012
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Ph.D. Project: Mobility in rural outskirts of Denmark
30.01.2012 • By Kristian Hegner Reinau • Ph.D. projects
Maria Vestergaard is doing a really interesting Ph.D. project about the rural outskirts of Denmark, and she explains the following about the project: Lately the discussion of development problems in the rural outskirts of Denmark” has intensified and in the beginning of 2010 this discussion had a word connected to it: “Udkantsdanmark”. The problem is [...]
Read more...Conference call: Local and Mobile
24.01.2012 • By Kristian Hegner Reinau • Conference calls
Local and Mobile Local and Mobile is the third joint international conference of the Pan-American Mobilities Networks and the Cosmobilities Network. The first mobilities conference, “Cultures of Movement: Mobile Subjects, Communities, and Technologies in the Americas” took place in 2010 in Victoria, British Columbia (Canada). The second instantiation of the conference, “Mobilities in Motion: New [...]
Read more...Conference Call: Urban Assemblages and Cosmopolitics
24.01.2012 • By Kristian Hegner Reinau • Conference calls
Urban Assemblages and Cosmopolitics - Open panel at the EASST/4S Meeting, October 17-20 2012, Copenhagen Organizers: Ignacio Farias and Anders Blok Large technical urban systems have represented a major source of STS insight and innovation (e.g. Hommels 2005). However, the city, urban life, and urban politics have only recently been subjected to the relentless relationalism of ANT and post-ANT studies. In this [...]
Read more...Conference Call: CYCLING AND SOCIETY ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM
20.01.2012 • By Kristian Hegner Reinau • Conference calls
This might be of interest to some C-MUS members: CYCLING AND SOCIETY ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON MONDAY 3rd and TUESDAY 4th SEPTEMBER, 2012 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: DEADLINE 29TH FEBRUARY, 2012 The Cycling and Society Annual Symposium is an informal and interdisciplinary event. It welcomes academics, policy makers and advocates who wish to share [...]
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